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BILLY ASKS LORD
TO GIVE ATLANTA
SECOND PENTECOST
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•fled a church door Sunday night. Only
!<* per cent of them! Only about SO
per cent of the 10 go Sunday morn Ins.
Some folks never go near. I never could
understand why God’s sheep want io
leflv* lh« Lord's clover patches and go
up the back alley and chew rags and
tin cans with the devil’s billy goats.
All the 120 knew Jesus better than
anybody else. No two knew him ex
actly the same way, but they all loved
him. I don't see how the theme*of that
meeting could be anything other than
Jesus Christ. We have got so many
people in our churches at the head of
things—all these dea<on<i and stewards
and elders and committee men and Sun
day school teachers that don t know
Jesus Christ. They know something
about him. but they don't know him. So.
of course, they are not in sympathy with
(he revival effort. They have ncv er
been converted themselves. If thev
were I would not be here. If they were
converted they would be in sympathy
with God. * . . .
It is said that if Moody had hie life
to live over again he would go into a
town and preach a month and never g.ve
an invitation to the unsaved, preaching
to arouse and stir up the dead bacg to
chifrch. It took yoody all his life to
learn, mv friends, that that should have
been done today. He used to go in and
preach add the first night give the In
vitation to the unsaved. Late* oni h«
discovered that it was wrong. H *
to have spent ail his time preaching in
the church and getting them before God
and then they would go out anddo >t
instead of expecting somebodv else to
wear his life out doing It. „
Vow. they all knew Jesus, and when
thev came together fresh from the
Mount of Olives. they watched hint ri. -
Ing slowlv out of their sight and they
would all tell about the IV'lwt’woX
were with him, and about the last wo<d..
aid every word that he uttered and
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that would gc or. day after day.
WAirr iro iirociras
nr bevival meettmgs.
Oh thr best way to take strife, and
pull and fight, and factions, and feuds
out of individuals and the church f
the devils cheer every time th *r ha '
* church scrap-- is to gel everybody to
know Jesus Christ. And if some stran
ger had happened to actually stroll into
that meet.ng. sat there for five nun
uiee and listened to their testimony,
he would have had born within him a
desire to know this Jesus that had done
so much for the world.
Now. what is needed to produce a
revival is an atmosphere where every
body is in sympathy and praying, and
know Jesus. 'There wasn't a knocker
in the bufich. not a one. Now. another
thing The last promise that Jesus
gave vo His disciples just before He
went over to the cross was. -And I
a will pray the father, and he shall give
• you another comforter, and he may
abide with you forever.” And the last
promise that He made to them after
His cruciflction and resurrection, and
just before His ascension was this, “e
shall receive power after that the Holy
Ghost is* come upon you.’’ And the
last thought that Jesus had for His
dfsalples before He went on the cross,
and the test thought He had for His
before He went to heaven were
for the same thing. “I want you to
have poUer.” And He wants His church
to have power today. They haven't
got it for they don't believe in Jesus
Christ They are a lot of God-forsaken
Infidels, heretical preachers, out
In orthodox pulpits, sprouting and pour
ing oat damnable lies, and you know it.
I know preachers that are preaching
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t Dav;d Swing, of Chicago, preached when
they kicked him out. I know Methodist |
preachers that are preaching ten times
more tommyrot than Dr. Thomas preach
ed when they kicked him out. None
are immune. 1 know Congregationalist
, preachers. Unitarians. and every other
denomination that do the same. 1 know
Baptist preachers that preach anything
'under heaven but the truth.
That is the* gi eat troyble with us to
. day. That is why more of us haven’t
got the power We have denied the
atoning blood of Jesus ChriiJt and the
.cardinal doctrines of the Son of God.
Now think of it! He had lived with
‘those disciples for yrnTr. Yes. and He
• had taught them. He gave them power
Ito perform in racl.es. and He cast out
devils. Yet He said. “You need the
lower of the Holy Ghost if you are go
• ing io do the work after I go away,
i If I go not away, the comforter will
’ not conje. It Is expedient that I go
away.”
Now. you will never succeed without
j the Holy Spirit. Never! There can be
no substitute. There is no .substitute
for the sun; there is no substitute for
blood; there is no substitute for life;
there is no substitute for the gospel;
God will damn any preacher that’s try
ing to inject a lot of social service and
other stuff as a substitute for the gos
pel of Jesus Christ. I am not opposed
to your social service; I am opposed
to anything that is trying to take away
the gospel of Jesus Christ. People are
• not saved by words; they’ are saved by
‘ faith in the Son of God.
NO SUBSTITUTE FOB CH BI ST
IN THIS OLD WOSLD.
All these things are all right in their
place, but the trouble is. we are trying
to put them out of place, and put the
gospel out of its place. There is no
substitute for salvation. We must all
come the same way or we are forever
lost. And you may organize, you may
prepare, and you may have the best
singing and the best preaching, but you
I will never have power without the Holy
Ghost.
“Ya, shall receive power after the
Holy Ghost has come upon you.” Now,
then, you will all agree that no matter
what gifts a man or woman may pos-
I sess: no matter what scriptural knowl
edge he or she may have, they never
will have power without the spirit of
God. Never! You have all heard peo
ple pray, and I have —Oh, they could
touch the stars in their prayers. And
I have heard people preach. Oh. they
were peaches and they were' orators,
and they would have the intonations of
voice, and they could wo-00-00-murder!
But it made no more impression on the
audience than the beating of a bass
drum. Why? Oh. it was all in the head
and not in the lyeart
And I have heard people sing who
could sing perfectly from an artistic
standpoint, and they'd run the chro
matic scale like a squirrel climbing a
tree. Everything was perfect, but it
was all done simply to show off the
tone production. That is all. It made
no impression. Like I toid you the oth
er day about a woman. This is another
woman of the same type—always beg
, ging to sing. I never like to ask any-
J body that wants to sing. I like to go
to folks that don’t ask to sing.
This woman finally came down with
I a roll of manuscript and she was going
i to sing, “Where Is My Wandering Boy
, Tonight ’’ She walked upon the plat
form and stood there and said, "Where
is my wandering boy tonight? The
che-ild!” I nudged another fellow next
to me and I said, “It's dollars to dough
nuts she hasn’t got a kid walking down
the w’hite way.” All she did was to
show the bunch that she had a good
voice. That’s all. She didn’t want to
I help a poor devil who was going to
hell so fast he couldn't see hie own
dust. If you ever tried to do anything,
you know it can.never be done without
the spirit of God. Never in the world.
The great need of. the church today
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1017.
! isn’t more men; it isn't more women; ,
we've got men and women enough to I
; win the world for Christ. We don't '
■ need new members half as much as we |
' need the old bunch made over. We have |
men enough and we have women i
enough. We have money enough. if ,
• every preacher in Atlanta and every
church member was a good, earnest
Christian. I want to tell you you would
rewrite religious history—if you are
just, energetic and zealous for God’s
truth. So what the church needs isn't
more men. women and money, but more
people right with God. Then when his
will is done see what will happen to
the world. Somebody says. "Well, what
am 1 going to do? ’ Ik» what the disci
ples did to receive the Spirit. They be
lieved and then thej received him by
prayerful watting and by faith. That
i is all.
The I'oly Spirit is ours today upon
the promise of Jesus as a gift fiom
the Father on the condition that we
keep his commandments. “If you love
me keep my commandments. I will
pray the Father and he whll give you
. another Comforter, and he may abide
• with you forever." Listen! The Holy
Spirit is ours today on the promise of
Jesus as a gift from the Father on the
condition that we keep his command
ments. but you’ve got to be right with
God first You’ve got to get In a right
I state of heart. No gift can be received
I unless you are in the right attitude
receive it. No more can God give the
. spirit of God if you are not in the right
. attitude than he can fill your house with
sunshine when you close the windows
and draw the curtains.
SINNEB MUST CONFESS
BEFORE HE IS SAVED.
You can pray until you are black in
the face and baldheaded and you will
Jnot have a ray of sunlight. Remove
, the obstacle. I might stand up here
and put my book between your laces
and my face and then pray to God and
complain that I couldn’t see. Well. I
! might, pray until I was a thousand
years'old and God would never answer
! that prayer. Remove the obstruction.
llf I r'.move that book I can see. God
i says it I regard iniquity the Lord won’t
hear me, so there is no use to pray
God to bless a sinner. He won't bless a
. ] sinner. The sinner has got to pray
. i’’God be merciful to me, a sinner. ' He
■ | must confess his sins and then he can
’ I pray for God to bless hihi. Get the
’ sin out and then God will bless you.
I So you are wasting your time, if there
I is iniquity and sin in your heart and
■ life. You must give up all sin and be
forgiaen of your sin and you must be
> willing to walk in the light. It is Im
i possible to have a wedding unless both
i are agreed. If the girl changes her
mind it is all off. I never could see
Why a man hasn’t just as good a right
•to change his mind as she has. Just
>I exactly!
. . I think the New Jersey law that they
J are putting on is a .cracking good one,
1 that no girl can sue a man for breach
t of promise unless there has been a
> public record that they have been en
i gaged. There too many hold-ups nowa
. days. They are trying to put it over so
• she can wear a little better clothes
. tKan she could have worn If she had to
. go out and earn it. There are too many
> hold ups in my opinion. Never mind
we’ve been married how long ma? Fifth
day<)f September. 1888. Now! So there
can be no wedding unless both are
agreed. Not at all! If you are will
ing to walk in the path of righteous
ness don’t get up *and Sing. “Where He
leads me I will follow,” and turn off
at the first bypath. Not at all! Now,
if you are willing to follow, follow
i Jesus no matter where He leads you.
If Jesus leads you to the coffin, then
follow. If He leads you to the grave
yard, then follow. Have the nerve and
walk up. knowing that “all things work
eth together for good to them that
love God."
“I WANT TO BEAT DEATH *
AS EONG AS I CAN.”
1 am not afraid Os God. but I don’t
! want Io de. I think whin m.v time ■
i conies to die I'll put up an awful ar- ,
! gument to try and convince God that
[ it wouldn't hurt to let me stay a little
■ longer. I don't want to die. 1 am not
I afraid to. 1 always think there is soine-
I thing wrong with a fellow who wants
|to shuffle off this mortal ehell. I [
want to beat the undertaker as long ;
as I can.
Then we will have the witness of the J
spirit that we are God’s when we are i
right with God. We are willing to give I
i up everything that God forbids even if I
; It is your right eye or your right arm. !
! If you have anything that is valuable j
to you as your right eye or right arm, ,
land 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.
j “If thy right eye offend thee, pluck 1
!it out.” I don't mean you are to tear I
J your eye out of its socket and throw ’
it a Way. If you have.any thing as valu- i
I able to you as your right eye or as val- i
I Liable to you as your right arm, and 1
that thing is keeping you from God,
you are making a fool of yourself to
keep it. Get ri'l of it. The brewer
knows if fee would give his heart to
Jesus Christ he would have to turn
over thfe key of his own brewery. The
saloonkeeper knows he would have to
. get out of his business.
I admire the man in the Algonquin
Isotel in New York who put the bar out
am I going to educate my children from
because he learned that it made mm
SIO,OOO a year. He said. “Great God, i
the income of a saloon? 1 can run the
. hotel without a bar, or I won’t run it
at all, take it from me. Or I'll let it
j rot on its foundations.’’ The Algonquin
is the name of the hotel, so if you ever
Igo to a hotel, go there. It’s a good
I one.
I It should be a privilege to know
! when you put everything out of your
I life that the Comforter has come, and
Iwe can only receive it by faith. Feeling
’ is the result of the Spirit having come;
’ faith is the way it comes. I feel happy
| that I am saved, but I 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.
I believe to be saved. I feel hap
py because I 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, “It is enough. Y’ou
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 I want to tell you .Jesus said.
“Greater works than these shall you
do, because I go to my Father.” See
what' 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
ther In your spirits than right now,
to get an illustration.
The last day I preached in Boston
5.179 men and women walked dowp
the aisle and ttook me by the hand ano
said. ”1 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
Sunday.)
SOUTHERNERS MISSINS
M TDRPEDDEO BMT
One Officer and Twenty U. S.
Seamen Probably Killed in
U-Boat Attack
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Following
closely the first casualty list in trench
fighting, the navy department early to
day made public a list of one officer arid
twenty men missing from the Ameri
can patrol boat Alcedo, sifbmarined
Monday.
Struck squarely by a torpedo, she
sank in four minutes.
Os the ninety-two men aboard but
seventy-one were saved, indicating the
greatest coolness by officers and crew
after the torpedo struck her. Naval
officers consider it likely that many of
these were killed outright by the vio
lence of the torpedo’ll explosion and that
others were stunned or too badly hurt
to receive help.
Whether the trim little former yacht
—the first United States warship to be
lost in the war—had a chance to battle
for its life or was struck without warn
ing will not be known until further de
tails of the disaster are obtained.
According to reports, near-by vessels
began work of rescue almost imme
diately after the Alcedo was hit. As
the survivors came into port, more com
plete accou’nts are expected.
The war zone is fairly covered by ves
sels like the Alcedo —patrol boats
which, in guarding larger warships and
cargo ships from the submarine, daily
encounter the deadliest danger. That
more of them are not sunk appears
miraculous, despite the constant watch
fulness of their crews.
The Alcedo, formerly a yacht owned
by G. W. Childs Drexel, a Philadelphia
capitalist, was sold to the government
and reconstructed last soring.
LIST OF MISSING.
The navy department announced that
the following members of the Alcedo’*
crew were still unaccounted for:
Lieutenant (junior grade I John T.
Melvin; father, Bishop Stewart Melvin,
of Selma, Ala.
E. R. Gozzett, seaman; mother, Mrs.
A. G. Gozzett, Astoria, Long Island.
James J. Cleary, seaman; mother,
Mrs. Albertina Cleary. White Plains,
New York.- '
R. Wesche, seaman; mother, Mrs.
Wesche, Brooklyn, N. Y.
R. W. Riker, seaman; mother, Mrs.
Harry E. Riker, Brooklyn, N. Y.
W. R. Holler, seaman; mother, Mrs. K.
Holler, Richmond Hill, New York city.
J. W. Brunkhardt, seaman: mother,
Mrs. E. Brunkhardt, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Luther O. Weaver, seaman; father, E.
W. Weaver, Brooklyn, N. V Y,
John Wynne, Jr., seaman; wife, Mrs.
John J. Wynne, Jr., New York city.
E. .Harrison, mess atendant; uncle,
Henry Pool, Tyler. Ala.
E. W. Fingerling, fireman; mother,
Mrs. C. Tenburin, Jersey City, N. J.
Allen T. Edwards, seaman; mother,
Mrs. Lydia M. Edwards, Jackson, N. C.
C. F. Gaus, seaman; mother, Mrs.
Mary Gaus, Jamaica, L.' I.
V. E. Harrington, seaman; mother,
Mrs. Maud Harrington, Ashland, Okla.
W. U. Surratt, seaman; mother, Mrs.
W. D. Witt, North Fork, W. Va.
W. W. Smock, seaman, father, D. R
Smock, Des Moines, la.
S. J. Towle, seaman; mother, Mrs.
Mary Yonder wall, Jamaica, L. I.
J. R. Daniel, seaman; father, J. A.
l>aniel, Darlington, S. C.
H. A. Pacciano, boilermaker; mother,
Mrs. Teresa Pacciano, Endicott, N. Y.
Frank W. Higgins, yeoman (naval re
serve); mother. Mrs. Bertha E. Higgins,
Staten Island. N. Y.
Robert McCray (negro), seaman; fa
ther. (“apus McCray, Charleston, S. C.
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The Face of Devil or Saint?
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strong men alike fell
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OF SAINT to those who opposed
XcnCVIM him. Fortune and author-
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RASPUTIN, the Mystery Monk of Russia
What was the secret of his power? What was his pur
pose? Whv did many of his victims mourn him as a mar
tyred saint? Why do others, released by his death, declare
him a devil incarnate?
THESE QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED BY THE REVE
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PUTIN’S LIFE, WRITTEN BY THE
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