Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-20

mother or your child Step to a tele-
| phone, hear your loved ones in Chicago
| or San Francisco.
Oh, what an awful calamity to be
| deaf, and to lose all the good that comes
! through being able TO hear. And can
| you think of such a great blessing COM
! ing to you through such a wonderful
! privilege and not have your heart quick
( en- with gratitude to God? Then never
! hear a sound again without thanking
! God that you can hear, by the mercies
/ of God.
Did YOU ever thank God for the bless-
/ ings of taste? You know there are
people that cannot tell by taste whether
/ they are eating Strawberries and cream
! or baled shavinRs. There are other
1 people that have such vicious tastes
/ il is almost impossible 10 eat; and you
I ought to thanN God cor making so many
! good things taste good. God might
have made our food taste like quinine
or garbage but He didn't.
! Talk about the disagreeable things
just stop where you are. Think about
The good things in the world, and then
thank God that you don't have to hold
your nose and make a face every time
you sit down a the table. There are
people that done know what it means,
no. sir.
: Did YOU ever thank God that YOU can
breathe. Jrea he without pain, that you
have good 'angs? OF all the people
who die in this country one out of
eleven die from consumption; and of
all the vome who die, one out of eight
die from cancer But the time VIII
come when the physicians. by their mar
velous skill. will defeat the white
plague and beat back that dreaI
scourge which pushes one out of eleven
into the coffi%- Ever thank God that
YOU can brea the:
Did YOU ever thank God that you
can sleep? II not, if | was the Lord,
I'd keep YOU awake every night for
about month until YOU appreciated
it, There are a lot of people that don't
know what il is to sleep unless they
take an opiate. and then they work
over in their mind what has been their
calling through the day.
Did you ever thank God for the hos
pitfalls? Did you ever thank God for the
doctors? Ever thank God for the
nurses? Oh. how many of us here to-
night would be in our graves if it
wasn't for the skill of the men who
come with their scalpel and procar to
remove the putrefying abcesses that
bore their way toward our vitals and
threaten to put Us in the grave?
Did you ever thank God for all the
wonderful blessings in the world. by the
mercies Of God? For the bread you ate
for your supper, while other peoples
just as good as you will go to bed hun
CRY? You live above the hunger-line
and they live below the hunger-line
Did you ever thank God for the
drought that never came; for the fact
that America has never scraped the bot
tom of her meal barrel, never; for the
cattle on thousand hills: for the green
Of spring. which is harbinger of what
God will do for us. and our granaries
will be full in the fall; for the lie that
somebody uttered about you, derogatory
to your character and that became
boomerang in the face of the reprobate
that dared spew it out to assassinate
your character; for the health that en-
ables You to sit here and listen while
others just as good are writing in pain
and suffering in some hospital or home?
preached in a town in Illinois and
they said to me when | got through,
''win you go to see MANI
/ said rs he well or sick?'
They said He is sick
said. We'll. l am not going to chase
around and see these well ones, but a
sick man-yes. 1 will 60"
went and found the man lying in
bed, and his limbs were no larger than
my wrists. This man hadn't told me a
thing about it. I said. How long have
you been in bed
He said 81 have been in bed for thirty
four years"
was up to Elgin. Ill. "a friend of
mine had been to see him and he said
to him. Don't you suffer here?
Doesn't it go against the grain to
lie here and suffer-"
He said IT feel so sorry for well
people that can walk but don't know
Jesus Christ, and I'd rather lie here,
knowing Jesus Christ than to be able
to walk and not know Him"
What lesson
by the mercies of God"-by the baby
that will wait for you when you come
home tonight, while somebody piles sin
feet of dirt on top of theirs this after
noon: by the wife, while some man
buries his and he has to be father and
mother to the little brood left behind;
by the salvation that you enjoy, with
your name written in the Lambs Book
of Life, while the fellow that sits next
to YOU. il he died, he'd be in hell before
midnight, and il rs now twenty-five
minutes past eight.
"By the mercies of God"-if your
heart isn't a piece of adamant, a hunk
of stone. il will melt with gratitude 70
the giver of all good.
II beseech you, brethren" No orders
from a staggering martinez. no delfv-
cry down to the rank and file; no speak
ing down from some lofty, superior
eminence of wealth or of learning or So
ciaI position.
A friend of mine went 10 England
years ago to deliver some addresses on
the labor question, and one day the
chairman OF the day was the daughter
of an earl and she introduced my friend
something like this;
You are the working class, you OF
the common people, must be convinced
that we of the aristocracy are much lis
terested in your welfare and we desire
TO inform and enlighten you upon these
topics. for We have brought Mr.. 80
and-So all the way from America 20
speak to you"
And they all said. Hear. Hear
Well that's all right in England,
where they bow and scrape to royalty,
but that never will do in democratic
America where one man is as much as
another.
The mercies of God! Nowhere in the
Bible do YOU find such language ad-
dressed to sinner. Sinners are rebels
Sinners are in rebellion against God
and they are never called brethren"
They are not entreated. They are COM
manded. God commands all men every
where to repent God entreats YOU to
do something for Him.
~ AlyaW. t,,R