Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-07-13

Yesterday / heard two good sermons
on the Bible, and it set me to thinking
about the Book of Books and it's adapta-
bility to the entire world.
From the first chapter of Genesis
through the last verse of Revelation
there is not line that every tribe or
nation cannot have translated and find
in the Book just the comfort and uplift
the Bread of Life and the Way of Sal
walton that we find-we whose ancestors
for centuries have been Christians.
When our Saviour told His little band
of workers to go into the world and
preach the gospel to every creature, the
world was comparatively small. But as
it has spread out and the Bible has large
ly been the means OF that enlargement,
the Word of God has been put into the
hands of native and Immigrant, has been
translated into languages and dialects
and has made the dying bed of Hun and
Hottentot "as soft as downy pillows
are" because the Christian Is ready for
the future, no matter in what form the
summons comes.
A great man once said, Come what
may, succeed or fail what will, 1 need
be no failure. My field may be strong
or it may be swampy, my pillow may be
poor, my strength small, the weather
bad, but if heartily as unto my Lord ]
do the best I can, and look not back, but
keep right on, l am no failure"
Do you think that anyone could grow
as fine a spirit as that if there had been
no Bible to teach that greatness of spirit
that looks for motives and not pecuniary
results?
The Zulu, before missionary was
sent to that desperate tribe, counted
bravery, looked upon success, as shown
by the trophies won by bloodshed and
its attendant horrors. The gentle voice
and pleasant smile could not be pos
sessed by the owner of teeth filed like a
saws teeth. Such a mouth was for tear
ing human flesh. .Cannibals ate the heart
of their bravest adversary so as to alb
sorb that mans qualities.
The Bible tells US that it is not what
we eat that, makes us good or bad, but
''as a man thinketh in his heart so
he is"
The Bible teaches us to wait patient
ly on the Lord, vengeance is mine,
saith the Lord" And in it's precious
promises for the eternity we may en-
JOY after this brief span is over we have
the sustaining power, that life-giving
essence-hope-with which many
would grow desperate and end the strug-
gle. Any one can carry a burden lit
tie while. There is seldom work that
cannot be carried on until sunset, or a
reasonable time, and when quitting time
comes if we can drop the burden, can
cheerfully say, Dear Lord, I've done
my BEST" and leave the matter in His
hands till time to commence again they
have really found 1.-The Christians secret
of happy life.
No matter what may be thy burden
the Bible, Gods word to all who will
go to Him for counsel, is exactly to the
point. This Is Monday, blue Monday
to many, but as the book has been a
guide In ages past to all who believed
in the true and loving heavenly Father,
1T can also be a help, a comfort and a
leader to the wayfarer of today. Com
mence in the part that was handed down
to the children of Israel and we find
these emphatic statements, II will not
fail thee, nor forsake thee God is
not a man that he should lie, neither
the Son of Man that he should repent
hath He said and shall he not do it? Or
hath He spoken and shall He not make
good? THE Lord thy God, He is God
the faithful God, which keepeth cove
nant and mercy with them that love