Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, November 09, 1917, Page 3, Image 3
BILLY ASKS LORD TO GIVE ATLANTA SECOND PENTECOST t (Co a tinned From Fage 2.) •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 ■» 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. 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We had been married four was unfit to do my work. .A friend asked me bought it and the next month I was so well that I years and had no children. After using Lydia E. f 0 try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com worked all the month without staying at home a Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Blood Puri- pound which 1 did, and it has helped me in dav lam in good health now, and have told lots fier I became well and strong and was saved from l verv wav Jam not nearly so nervous, no of girls about it.”—Miss Clarice Morin, 22 Rus- an operation. We are now the parents of a big | - . j j t say that Lyd i a E. sell St, Taunton. Mass. baby girl, and I praise your remedies to others and , PCompound is the best If all young women who are not well could see m give you permission to publish my letter.”—Mrs. rinknamis vegeidoic v-umpuu Margaret our librar, She great file of letter, like above they %«» dmuuviT, Jr., Bridge St., Miller-. FtJte, . remedy « * S would be convinced our medicine would help them. Mass. < ’ The great number of unsolicited letters like the above prove that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is all that it is claimed to be. Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. ‘more tommyrot and falsehood than ever' 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. 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