Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-09

want TO de. I think when my time
comes to die Ill put up an awful ar
gument to try and convince God that
it wouldn't hurt to let me stay little
longer 1 don't want to die. ] am not
afraid to. 1 always think there is some
thing wrong with a fellow who wants
to shuttle off this mortal shell I
want to beat the undertaken as Ions
as l can
Then we will have the witness of the
spirit that we are Gods when we are
right with God. We are willing to give
up everything that God forbids even if
it is your right eye or your right arm
If you have anything that is valuable
to you as your right eye or right arm,
and that thing is keeping you out of
the kingdom of God, He, says that you
had better lose both eyes than to go
to hell.
eff thy right eye offend thee, pluck
it out" l don't mean you are to tear
your eye out of its socket and throw
it away. If you have anything as valu-
able to you as your right eye or as val
liable TO you as your right arm, and
that thing is keeping you from God.
you are making a fool of yourself to
keep il. Get rid of it, The brewer
knows if he would give his heart to
Jesus Christ he would have to turn
over the key of his own brewery. The
saloonkeeper knows he would have to
get out of his business.
l admire the man in the Algonquin
hotel in New York who put the bar out
am ] going to educate my children from
because he learned that it made MIN
$4,000 a year. He said, Great God,
the income of a saloon? l can run the
hot al ,,,it1 ha mr. I n1ft RIM
at all take it from me. Or I'll let it
rot on it's foundations The Algonquin
is the name of the hotel. so if you ever
go to a hotel, go there. It's a good
one.
1t should be a privilege to know
when you put everything out of your
life that the Comforter has come, and
we can only receive it by faith. Feeling
is the result of the Spirit having come;
faith is the way it comes. L feel happy
that 1 am saved. but l don't feel to be
saved. My feeling is the result of my
belief. Feeling is all right, but feeling
don't say that it saves. Faith saves a
sinner. Feeling is the result of this
faith. Get right, then you won't be
balled up.
1 believe to be saved. I feel hap
~ because ] believe. Trust the Lord
and do his will and then at last you
can plant your feet on the promises OF
God and you can fight off the doubts
as Abraham fought the beasts and the
birds of prey from the sacrifices. Fight
If it takes days; fight if it takes
months; fight if it takes years; fight
until God Almighty stops making
worlds and leans over the battlements
of glory and says, at is enough. You
have finished your job. Come home"
That is the way to fight, and all the
time. Never give up courage. If you
can bear the light that streams from
the throne of God without throwing up
your hands and crying "Unclean," then
you may know that the Comforter has
come, whether you feel like, it or not,
and believe the Lord, you do what
they did
And / want to tell you Jesus said,
Greater works than these shall you
do, because 1 go to my Father" See
whatN the Lord will do. He will open
the windows of heaven and pour out
such a blessing that there shall not be
men enough to receive it. And you
won't have to journey back any far
Their in your spirits than right now,
to get an illustration.
The last day I preached in Boston
5.179 men and women walked down
the aisle and took me by the hand and
said, at accept Jesus Christ as my
Savior" We could do the thing all
over the land If we would just get
right and say, Lord, I want to be
counted on your side" ..
Copyright 1917, by William Ashley
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