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Christ-Life Not Too Highfor Human Attainment, Billy Says
MLURE WITH OURSELVES
NOTWITH 60D, HE SAYS
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£ tion. “What is there in your life
idiat hinders the blessing from
Seoming to you? And because it
; n't come to you, it Is kept
s ay from somebody else? You
ean't go through the world an in
z:?\llnted and isolated being; you
. ®ill either damn it or you will
g%iess it, accordingly as you are a
“®eprobate or a Christlan. A fel
s Jow who wants to live to gratify
"his doMires is a black-hearted
Adder; if he {s llving for his own
@mbition, he is an adder. He
gan't do that,
¢ _ls there some iniquity or accl-
Hent or habit in your life, some
fsecret, some thought, some im
pure longings, some book? 1 will
not read a book that will sneer
@and mock #t religion and God
Almighty. I won't have it on my
tshelves. And we ought to go
hrough our homes and have a re
iglous, revival in literature,
. It some of you people would go
P ugh your homes and yank
the books on your lbrary
shelves that have no business
ghere, and burn them, like they
fßid Ephesus in the days of Paul,
. of you would not have
isnough paper left in your house
40 bang your old halr or wad a
shotgun. ;
i Something in your family life
"Jtn‘l that it? Overindulgence?
*‘firjf‘r Oh, heed the appeal of the Gov
@nmem to the people that ought
S stop gormandizing and stop
‘eating four pounds of beefsteak,
then you can get along with half
‘fi pound. Do something for other
‘*’opie! Let's begin to comply
with the requests, Oh, how we'd
glurprined to know how much
x can get along without, how
o hwe have today that we don’t
i‘m
. You go to bars and sit there
“and fill your old hide up with
s Dooze and when you go home, you
- soused and have got a load
‘on you that would sink a battle
t What is the trouble? Is it
‘selfishness, intemperance, fault-
And with the preacher hecause
LBe skins you and tells you where
e wrong? You admire the
#kill of a physiclan that comes
LBnd tells you what's the matter
¥ith you, and no matter how bit
er and nauseating his medicine
. will take it and it will
pste llke ice cream soda, if it
Wl only help you, but when the
peacher tells you you are wrong,
F Why don’t you thank God that he
i Bad the courage to do it?
Fisßomething in your social life?
sth it? You can't make a
h by serving God and trip-
Ping around with the gang that
some of you go with.
__ls 1t envy, evil speaking, ly
m Oh, It takes a blg man or
'Woman to see other people suc
; and not ralse a how! about
t Envy is one of the greatest
in the world. If you can't
f an automobile, you can
jde on a jitney bus for § cents,
1 if you can't afford a Plerce
frow, get a “tin Lizzle.”
, what i{s the trouble? If
ou don't like the smell of gaso
“#ine, don’t knock the fellow who
, I'::M it; take your trolley
1 a nickel, den't growl,
“don't growl!
. It some woman can afford to
" silk and you can't, what Is
use of knocking her and say
“ She's no good?”
pycock — such darn” spirit
' ‘have 'got around this coun
" _lf you can’t llve on the avenue,
D 6 content where you can live, I
. afford to live there, but I
Am having a good time. lam not
1 at the fellow that's got money
@ h to live there. The Lord
- _l'd rather hunt my own game
bark with the devil's pack
Bt the foot of the %.ue.
L Bovy, that's .he trouble!
5 oh °xouuel! by the lighted
~gand] God's truth. Sin cher-
Sshed, cancels the "lessing. So,
gnake up your mind that If you
pep ain, you can't ha e the bless
8. nua got to give sin up.
N make up your mind which
Jou‘ll kaep. That was true ‘n Jere
's day and it's true toaay. se
pake up your mind which yau
oy want. It you want God's
v you've got to give up the
vi] 80 make your choice,
fisther you want to go to the
vil or to heaven.
_ln ly persisted in making
je promises of non-effect. Don't
gist on living in sin and then
jwl at God because he doesn't
@ you. It's your fault and
651 So to Israel, so to us.
| of the blessings they be
ne e curses to the Jew, be
) lived contrary to what
the told him to live. It may
R D& s 0 much the doing of
wh g tells you not to do as it
h ”b‘m of what God teils
~Th are two r;llamhthnt sup
| gospel, the “thouh shait
, B and the “thou shalts.”
pu shalt not steal. Thou shalt
| gommit acultery. Thou shalt
L kill. Thou shalt not take the
de of the Lord in vain.
[ h love the Lord thy
| ‘with all thy heart, with all
: soul, and with all thy,
ength. Thou shalt”love thy
hbor as thyself
\ m with a lot of people
E it is not the things
8 tells thten; :;:z tg do
the t is the things
. God ::I'hb.&mm to do that
' don't do. “Curse ye Meros,
§d the angel of the Lord, curse
bitterly the inhabitants there
bec they came not to
p help of the Lord, to the help
' the d against the mighty. |
@od cursed them not for what
;’ but for what they did
. 3" God told them to do.
- -mot come up and help
. God says, “You arc cursed
muse you dfd not do It."
- That may de trouble. You
re ref to apologize to somes
jody. My friend Campbell Mor
n W in England,
nd & eame up to him and
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
said: "Dr. Morgan, can’'t you tell
me what's the trouble with me?”
He sald: “No, ma'm, I am not a
physician.” X
She sald: “It is not a physical
disability with which I am afflict
od, it is a spiritual malady. Four.
ylears ago I iost the joy of salva
tion.”
He said: “Bless the Lord!”
In amazement she said: “What?"’
He sald: “You said four years
ago. 1 szid Bless the Lord! be
cause you apecify the time; if you
know when, you know why.”
Her eyes dropped to the floor
‘ and she said: '"Yes, I do. Four
~ Yyears ago | had a quarrel with my
' best friend and we have not
spoken since.”
He said: “If you had died, you
would be in hell. For {f ye for
give men their trespasses, your
heavenly Father will aiso forgive
you."
He sald: “Where does your
friend liva?”
She sald: “She llves 400 miles
away.”
“All right, write her a letter.”
He left her. He went back to
that same town about a year
later, and the first woman he met
wag this woman; her face was
lighted up like a halo of glory.
He took her by the hand, and
sald: “Sister, you have written
that Jetter that we talked about
a year ago.” -
She said: “Yes, doctor, I wrote
it that night” And she said:
“When 1 did, the peace of God
flooded my soul!”
Poor chump! It would have
flooded her soul four years ago,
if she had written the letter then.
Maybe It is that,
Maybe you don't pay your
debits. Maybe you don’t pray.
Maybe you are a coward about
witnessing for Jesus Christ and
standing up for the Lord and for
His truth, Would you be ashamed
to stand up for your husband, or
would you be ashamed to stand
up for your chikiren? Are you
ashamed to stand up for your
country? KEvery man or woman
must be either a patriot of a
traitor in these days. Why
should you be ashamed to stand
up for Jesus Christ?
Now here are seven scriptural
definitions of sin. There are lots
of descriptions of sin, but I mean
scriptural definitions of sin,
‘What s sin?
“Sin s the transgression of
the law.” That is the common, or
dinary definition. Ninety-nine
times out,of a hundred people will
give, If you ask them what Is
sin, ‘the transgression of the
law.” Bin {s doing what God tells
you not to do,
n-herstku“hek hrd hr hr ard u
Second, “Whatsosever is not of
faith is sin” Anybody that
doesn’t believe in Jesus Christ as
the Son of God:; in God as the
only God; the Bible as the Word
of God; Heaven for the repentent
sinner; hell for the unrepentent
sinner; the Holy Ghost. “What
soever is not of faith is sin.”
See? ’
It doesn't make any difference
who preaches it or who practices
it, it 18 sin. If they stand up
and preach that Jesus Christ is
not the Son of God, it is ain.
When they say, “saved by char
acter,” they lie, because you are
not. You are saved by faith in
Jesus Christ, the SoA of God.
Third, “To him that knoweth to
do good and doeth it not, td him
it is sin.”
What is sin? Oh, you just
thought it was doing something
God told you not to do. It is
:huL but it is something else,
00.
Here is another: “If you have
ro:)?hct of person, ye commit sin.”
offers salvation to every
body. llf the rich man doean’t
repent; he will go to hell. If the
poor man doesn’'t vepent, he will
- &0 to M"be‘nd if the banker
doesn't repent, that won't save
him. God doesn’t condemn » man
simply because he happens to be
successful and prosperovus in the
world; it is a questior of his at
titude toward 'Jesus Christ.
“The thoughki of foolishness is
sin.” God %nows there is plenty
of that about religion and about
the diviuity of Christ and the
— doetrine of salvation and all that.
If what I preach is not taught in
the Bible, get up and tell me! if
it is, keep your darned mouths
shut, for I am preaching God's
truth. lam not standing up here,
Airing my opinions, and if you sit
cut there and listen to me and
don’t agree with me, that shows
you are & fool, for what [ am
proaching is the Bfble. You are
the ass, not me.
“A high look, a proud heart is
sin.”
| “All unrighteousness is sin.”
There are seven scriptural defl
nitions of sin. All right! You
Just please trot me out somebody
that does not stand convicted be
fore one of those seven counts.
You say, “1 have been sanctified.”
All right, line up with the rest
of them.
You asay, “I have been con
firmed.” ARI right, come on,
stand up. You say you know
there are thirty-nine articles of
confession. All right, come on.
Be in mass, all right, get in
with the rest of them. Show me
somebody that does not stand
convicted before one of those sev
en definitions.
Here is the point of it: What
are we going to do? First, con
fess your sins. If we confess
our sins, he will forgive us our
sins. Lay a hold of the thing
that the spirit reveals to you that
is wrong in ¥our life. Never
mind me now \
The tmu:;h ?.re y%utbu;un wg:
other people. nd to your o
affairs; lay & held on the thm: ’
that the spirit reveals to you an
name that. Say, Lord, I have
been impuare, Lord, I have been
untruthful, Lord, 1 have beéen
worldly (I am asstming that
these may be the sins of some
body), Lord, T have heen proud,
- Lord, 1 have been niggardly In
my gift. Lord, 1 have got a hot
temper. Lord, 1 don’t read my |
{ Bible. Lord, I don't pray. Lord,
I dor't pay my debts. Isfra, I
talk about my neighbors. Lora,
i ]am a coward about witnessing
for Jesus Christ. Humillating, I
will agree, but it will bring you
blessing.
I am assuming you want to be
blessed. 1 will tell you how to
get it. Thé first thing is, con
fess your sins. Second, renounce
sin, abandon it. “Whosoever {3
convicted of his sin shall not
prosper, but who confesses and
forsakes his sin shall ind mercy.”
Beparate your life from that sin,
tear that sin out of your life,
get rid of it, get away from it.
“If thy right hand offend thee,
cut it off.,” If there is anything
in the world that is useful to you
and it i{s keeping you away from
God, God says get rid of ({t
God doesn’t mean to dig your eye
out. If there is anything in the
world that's as valuable to you
as your right hand and arm and
that thing Is keeping you away
from God, get rid of it.
Confession without renuncia
tion doesn’t amount to anything.
If a man confesses sin and keeps
on Uving in sin, he did not mean
anything by his confession. And
If a man stops living in sin
without confessing it, that does
n't mean anything, for that’s the
reformation. But if he contaanu
and forgakes, the forsaking shows
the confession was genuine. So
it 18 no good to confess it if you
' don’t forsake it, vice versa, he
~ cause the confessing shows that
~ you were sorry, that you did it
80 God will forgive it. That
doesn‘t mean that you have to
stand up and tell the people
what you have done. It is none
of their business.
I think you can go back too far
on the trail of anybody. It is
none of your business. “What
soever ye would that men should
do to you do ye even so to them.”
If you knmow anything about
anybody keep your mouth shut.
You would be mighty glad if
anybody had anything on you and
they'd keep their mouth shut.
Gosh, wouldn't this be a great
world If everybody would mind
their own business? Wouldn't
the devil have a hard time? He'd
be in the hospital.
I'd make that definite, too. I'd
say, “Lord, I will not read those
books that sneer at You, that
appeal to my baser nature. I
will not go with that crowd of
gin fizzlers and cocktail guzzlers.
No, No! Lord, I won't be stingy.
Lord, I have been unclean today.
Lord, forgive me for the lle I
spoke. Lord, lead me safely past
my old haunts”
Oh, the man who is in earnest
will put his fingers on the sore
Just as we tell the doctor where
is the pain, so he can intelligently
diagnose and prescribe for the
malady. Do the same thing with
the Lord. That is the second.
First thing, confess your sin.
Becond, renounce, abandon {t, get
away fromm it and get it away
from you. Third, Instant obedi
ence to Ged. You must not
only resolve that you will not do
what God tells you not to do
when God tells you éwt to steal
or lle or commit adultery, but
you must resolve that you will
do what God tells you to de%.w‘nd
there is no diiference b een
dol%:dwhat you are told not to
do what L?u are told to o:o.
If you say ‘that child, don't
do it, and it dqf- it, and if dyon
say to this child, do it, and it
doeen't, in' its case it is disobe
dient, and so aré you. You don't
. do what God tells you to do when
you are a sinner, so don’t hold
your head so high. “To him that
knoweth to do good, and doeth
it not, to him it is sin” "All
unrighteousness is sin.”
Instant obedience. When Jesus
confessed His glory at the King
dom of Ga:l::, his mother turn
ed around said to the crowd:
“Whatsoever he saith unto ye, do
- it in instant obedience.”
Wait a minute! I'd make that
definite. I'd say, Lord, I will
write that letter of upolog{.ohord.
1 will pay my debts, rd, I
will read my Bible. Lord, I will
stop talking about my neighbors.
Lord, I will confess Jesus. Lord,
I will pray in public. Lord, I
will ask for blessings. Lord, I
will go to prayer meeting and
give the preacher nervous pros
tration when he sees me come in,
for 1 have never been there. I
willl T willl T will!
Give yourself up to God, whol
ly, fully, unreservedly, irrevo
cably, give yourself. That is what
you promised to do when you
were married. You sald, “Yes’
and that fellow said, “Yes” All
right,—give yourself to the Lord.
Qive yourself. Say, “Lord, here
1 am.,” That 1s vhe whole thing:
bring your sins and lay them at
the foot of the Croas, and say:
“Lord, nothing In my hand I
bring, simply to Thy Cross 1
cling." :
1 don’t bring my culture, my
money; I don’t bring anything
and plead that F ought to have
salvation bbeause of that. In my
harnd no prize I bring, simply to
Thy Cross 1 cling. Just as I
am, without one plea, I come, I
come, Just ag 1 am, without one
. plea. And do you know what he
S will do? ' <
He will take out of your life
that which made you do " the
things he told you not to do, and
he will put in your life that which
will keep you from doing that
which he tells you not to do,
and will help you to do the
things he tells you to do.
Say, “Lord, T want to re
nounve these things, but they \
seem to cling to me. Lord, I
don't want to lose my temper,
but sometimes [ do get under a
fifty-pound pressure, when I have
a blow-out or my carburetor
stops working and | will just get
an awful ft” \
Say, “Lord, I don't want to be
stingy, but T go to church with
out my purse filled with gold and
I hunt around and find a nickel
aalil then I sing ‘Jesus Paid it
Al
Say, “Lord, 1 don}‘kwam to
neglect my Rible, I. eit and
read it quietly whare nobedy
sees me."
Tell God! And the &nfi.\ of
God will go as deep as the roois
of sin, and if they have taken
bolnd upof you the grace of God
will take it out of you. So if
the roots of sin have gone deep®
er, remember that the grace of
God will go down and uproot the
roots of sin. He said, “T will take
away all thy alloy.”
Remember ghat. Uncle\\Sam
puts one per cent copper in all’
gold money, the copper is alloy.
Why? Gold is soft, and it must
be hardened with alloy. The
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BILLY’S NIGHT SERMON IS
POWERFUL PLEA FOR GOOD
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met an officer ¢f the lodge=~and
said, “I understand you had an
all night session, laboring for an
erring brother.”
“That young fellow didn't be-
Heve in God or Christ or anybody
else That young fellow was a
Knight Templar. He can come to
a thirty-third degree and be-
Heve in God but when a man
wears that white flag and blue
uniform, he has got to believe in
Jesus Christ and the New Testa
ment.”
In a degree of the Masonic
. lodge they say these words, “No
infidel can walk here and he can
not get in.” A
It there is any Bunch on God
Almighty's dirt that I have a
right. to . expect co-operation of,
it is the men who wear the Ma
sonic badge. Yank it off or pro
. fess vour faith., This young fel
low was a’ Knight Templar' and
they labored all nighs over his
case. And finally they decided not
to turn him out of the lodge.
| Say, there is'not a lodge in this
city or in this country that has
not hypocrites in its member
ship. Is that any argument
against a lodge?y When any man
uses it as an argument he is a
fool. ;
And there is not a church,
either Catholic or Protestant, that
has not hypocrites in its member
ship. Is that any argument
against Christianity or Jesus
Christ? If any man uses it as an
argument, he is a fool, and he is
a_ jack-ass of a fool if he does.
And so I tell you that 1 have
a oomroveray‘ with-the church to
day, Catholic*and Protestant, and
that controversity is the laxity on
the part of the officlals to apply
the principles to men who live in
opposition to their promises and
will not stick \fi)afor God’'s truth.
You know that many a time
eur officials are in such a God
forsaken, backsliding condition
themselves they could not con
sciousi{y apply the discipline to
anybody in the pews that did not
believe In thglr VOWS,
I ving preaching in a town down
In Missouri some years ago and I
went out throu?x “the audience
and stepped up to a fine sort of a
lm{klnt woman and I sald—with
all my Chesterfleld politensss and
suave mannerism, I bowed low
and I eald, “Good evening lady,
are you a Christian?”
She arched her eyebrows and
drew in her diapHragm and said,
“Sir, since when did you become
my Father confessor?"”
“T said, “Forget it, if the devil
looks like you, I am quite sur
prised at his success.'”-
She said, “T pick my company,
sir, and I give you to understand
that I do not choose the church.”
; I said, “Lady, T haven't any use
for_you and your cholce, If you
stay out of the church, I am frank
to tell you that I have no respect
for you and vour choice.”
She sald, “Sir, T do not go into
a church where there are hypo
crites.”
I I said, “Do you know what a
hypoerite is?"
She sald, “A hypocrite is a man
or woman who professes anything!
that they are not.
I said, “A hypocrite is any man
or woman who does net live up to )
their vows and their promises,
The people you are pointing out
and turning your nose up a\are
+ some of your own gang that'got
into the church without being
Lord sald, “I will take away all
thy alloy.”
The Bank of England never re
ceives gold for its face value.
The Bank of Emgland always
weighs the gold; they have scales
80 delicate that your breath or a
hair from your head will turn
the scales, and if it is short, it
is tipped to one side, and if it
is not, it is tipped to the other
side. So they never accept gold
for its face value,
Uncle Sam puts one per cent
copper in all the gold to give it
hardness. I went through the
United States mint in Denver
and they had some 40,000,000 in
gold bullion, 20,000,000 of copper
stacked up. Now, that is alloy,
that is dross. The Lord said,
“T will take away all thty alloy.”
All your dross, In other words,
God will take out of your heart
thode things that make you dis
obey and he will put in the things
that will make you do it, then
vou will remove the hindrance
and then the prophecy of Malachi
will be fulfilled. Malachi was the
last of the Ol Testament proph
ets, who came before John the
Baptist, and Malachi had a prom
ise through God that has not been
fulfilled yet. g
Malachi said: “Bring ve all
the tithes into the storehouse.”
All right. If we'd do that, the
church membership of this city
~would have passed this expense
fund in one colleetion. “Bring ve
all the tithes into the storehouse.”
“Bring-ye all the ‘ithes into the
storehouse, that there may be
meat in mine house, and prove
me now herewity saith the Lord
of hosts, if.l will not open you
the windows of Heaven, and pour
you out a blessing, that there
shall not be room enough to re
ceive it."”
Well, God is pouring down a
blessing here that staggers me. 1
have seen great evidences of
God's power, but I fall on my
knees in humility, my friends,
and remove my hat, and it seems
to say, “This is holy ground
where you are treading.” God
Almiglity is giving you the privi
lege of witnessing things in the
United States that have never
been witnessed since the Stars
and Stripes have waved over
America.
And yet, that is only a part of
what God Alnfigmy will do -if
you will only fulfill his wishes.
If there is anything in your MNfe
as an individual, get out of it
We have got to come as individu
als,
If T could deal with vou in mass
and save vou by anvthing I'g§
do it, but I can't. vou must come
as an individual. Say, “Jesus, we
want to thank you for your un
speakable gift and salvation. for
the Holy Spirit, for the revela
tion of Thyself. through Thy
regenerated. I'd stand by my
bunch if I were you. And, fur
thermore, you have taken them
and. filled them up with your
damnable rot and you have
wrecked their manhood and wom
anhood and because they want-to
be decent in the church; because
they are weakened and undermin
ed and occasionally stumble and
~ fall, you turn up your nose, yocur
proboacis.” \
1 said, “Furthermore, sister, if
we did apply the discipline to
these people and turned them out
why then you would refuse to
come into the church by saying
that that was not Christianlike
to be 80 cruel. You old scoundrel,
you wouldn’'t come in, anyway.”
, That is the trouble with a lot
of you. We are reaching down
into the slime-pits and the cess
pools of iniquity where you have
pushed them and because they are
weak, then you turn your nose up
and sneer. We are trying to help
them. We would rather see them
in heaven than in hell.
Well, a man says, “I don't be
lieve in the Bible.”
I said, “Why not?”
He sald, “Because of the in
consistencies.”
» Whagever yOous hear a man be
gin to harp about the inconsisten
cies in the Bible, keep your head.
If you ever have to take his note,
g?ve somebody go the security for
im.
Whenever T bring up the mem
ory of an eyil deed before soxfle
’ man he instantly begins to find
fault with the Bible, begins to
- harp about the hypocrites, begins
~ to growl about my vocabulary and
mannerisms, says that I am crude
and that I astonish and alarm and
shock. Oh, God—it would take
more than that to shock a lot of
these guys!
You go to a man and talk busi
ness, he will talk sense. Talk pol
itics with him and he will talk
sense. 'Go to a woman and talk
business, she will talk sense. Talk
society with her and she will talk
sense. But talk religion and they
will talk nonsense.
Like<an old woman out in Ar
kansas. She used to chew and
cuss and booze fight. One time
she ripped.out an oath and her
grandson said, “Granny, Granny,
please don’t swear.”
She said, “Mind your own busi
ness, you little simpleton.”
. He said, “Granny, you have got
to die some day.”
She said, “Well, you little fool,
I ain't dead yet.” i
When he cornered her on her
whisky drinking and profanity,
she made that nosensical refily.
If you had walked up and asked
her how to boil a head of cab
bage or roast a possum, she would
have made a sensible reply.
“If any man will do his will
~ he shall know.” And, therefore,
our character is in our will. What
we will we are. You will to be a
dru?mrd or you will to be a
Christian. You will to be a pros
titute. Every man that walks the
stre®s of heaven, he willed he
would and-that-is why he is there.
{very man that is in hell, he
willed, and that is why he.is.
there, 2
A fellow came up to me one
time and asked me—and I seldom
preach a meeting that some mutt
does not ask me this same ques
tion—"l want to ask you a ques
tion.™ - ¥ N
1 said, “Sail'in.” - :
He said, “Where did Cgin get
hiss wife?”
word, for giving us minds to un
derstand jt."
Woulan't a man be a wonder
fully honored man if the Spirit
were “only willing' to reveal all
the hidden things to him, but He
never will. There are some
things there inat are in the
Council of God, and the Lord re
serves them for Himself, not for
yvou to know, as Jesus said to
the disciples that times and the
seasons that the Lord hath put
in His Cwn Hand.
You have been kind enough,
TLord, but you have not told
, the world when Jesus would re
turn to it, nobody knows, not
even the Sun or the angels in
Heaven, but the Father. We don’t
know when the history of this
warld will wind up, and there
are some things that God has
never revealed to man and he
never will until the day of reve
lation.
But the sin that i§ revealed to
us is this, that we are sinners,
and that God Almighty tells
us: “Him that cometh unto me
I shall no wige cast out”” Oh,
Jesus, vou told us all that, and
“Come unto me, all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest,” So our part is to
serve God and then go out and
;become a blessing, so we can
"make the world better because
we have livéd in it. And if we
have done our part, Lord, we will
be forever with Thee.
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Too Many Exempted,
Says Draft Chairman
Ndays Dra
MACON, Nov. 27.—Judge W. H.
Felton, chairman of the No. 2 District
Efemption Board of South Georgia,
thinks that the military draft age
should be from 20 to 30 inclusive,
and has made this suggestion in an
swer to a questionnaire from the pro
vost marshal general.
“1 believe there are entirely too
many exemptions,” Judge Felton said.
“Neither marriage nor children should
constitute a ground for discharge. All
males sound physically “within the
draft age should by required to serve
with a proper provision for support
ing the family where truly depend
ent.” i
SN i
Fulton Ginning Is
91 i
Under 1916 Figures
Government figures Tuesday showed]
that Fulton County ginned 633 bales of
the 1917 cotton crop prior to November
14. This compares with 917 bales gin
ned prior to the same date-es last year.
I said, “He got her fr i
mther-ln-law."B o .
“Well,”” he said, “the Bible says
he got her in the land of Nod,”
and when an infidel starts in to
quote Scripture he is all in.
The Bible says nothing of the
kind. The Bible says that Cain
knew his wife in the land of Nod
- and ehia conceived and bore a
child. It always looks sort of sus
piclous to me to see a man so
much interested in some other fel
low's wife. I don't think it is
Cain’s wife that bothers some of
You old lobsters half as much as
it is the wife of your neighbor.
Adam and Eve had other chil
dren beside Cain and Abel, no
matter whether the first pair
came by generation, creation or
evolution or by accident. They
were produced by a protoplasm.
You are trying to pin your hope
of heaven on where Cain got his
wife. That cuts no ice with me
at all. Why do you ask that silly,
ridiculous question? Is it because
you are trying to take a side
against the Bible—discredit the
Bible? Is it because you are try
ing to find some excuse that will
justify you in being a devil and
rejecting Jesus Christ and living
in sin?
When the papers and the peo
ple on the other side of the politi
cal faith could find no fault in
Benjamin Harrison, one of the
highest Sypes of American man
hood that has ever sat in the
White House—none of them had
anything on Benjamin Harrison—
sd then they begun to smeer about
m}grandfather's hat, and Benja
min Harrison had more gray mat
ter in his brain than the whole
dirty bunch put together; they
tried to make people believe that
Benjamin Harrison was not fit to
sit in the White House.
So, therefore, listen! Darwin,
the infidel, quotes Matthew, who
in turn quotes Euhler, the infi
del, in which he sgays that popu
lation will double in 25 vegrs. If
vou studied your Scnibtural :
chronology carefully, you will find
that when Cain went out to court
his wife he was a lusty youth 128
vears old.
Josephus says that “Not” means
“vagabond” and ““vagabondage”
means the ground that God had
cursed, and the curse of God on
the ,ground today is because a
man sinned, and that is why we
have briers and thorns and thie.
tles and deserts. The curse of God
is the effect of man’'s sin on the
ground, |
When Adam and Eve ate the for
bidden fruit God drove them from
the Garden of Eden and said, “The
g_round is cursed because of your
sin.”
We say that Cain was 128 years
of sage when he met her and
courted her. Now, then, old Euh
ler, the statistician, says that'
population will double in twenty
five years. Allowing that there
‘were seven pairs.on earth at the
end of the first twelve years, and
that the population will ‘deuble
in twenty-five years under favor
able circumstances, and Cain was
128 years old v‘:]en he knew’ hig
wife .in the land of Nod, that
would have made the population
of th ,world then 11970, Allow
ing that half were female, which
proportion holds good .in every
land on the globe, that would
have made 5,985 buxom damsels
from whom old Cain gould have
selected a wife, good enough to
satisfy the most fastidioug de
votee, with matrimonjal inclina
tions buzzing in his belfry. Yet
a lot of fellows are .going to hell
tonight because theyv wonder
where Cain got his wife!
The inconsistency is not in the
Bible, but in your rotten life.
I preached in a town one time
in Towa and I said toa barkeenper,
“What are you in this dirty busi
ness for?"t
He was a pretty good fellow
and he said, “Well, Bil{, T couldn’t
be in the business if it wasn’t for
church members voting for me.”
If there is anything that makes
me feel like a woman that swale
lows a fly—she feels like expec
torating—it is to have some pea
nut-brained wise guy, some old
whisky-soaked rummy telling me
“that if it wasn't for the votes
of people who stand on the
church records—." I tell you I
would rather be a devil in hell
than indorse anything like that.
’N‘e Bible says, “Woe unto him
that| putteth a bottle to his
neighbors’ lips.” "
Somebody savs, “The Bible said
that? Huh! Perhaps you can
tell me why God made g woman
out of the rib of Adam. Why
didn’'t he make her out of the
dust of the eagth like he did
man?” \
Now, wnat are you going to say
to a fool like that? In the first
place, I wasn’t there. In the sec
ond place. T have never asked
God, and in the third place it is
none of mv bus!n%ss. You might
as well ask me why, when a wo
man has a loaf of bread and she
wants to make a sandwich, why
she doesn’'t make another loaf.
Why, it is easier. to cut it. off
from the loaf already made.
So there are people who lose
sight of all these beautiful truths
which, if put into practice, would
change this old sinful world inte
a paradise of blessing.
Like an old woman I once heard
of, she was ‘going to visit her
granddaughter and she had never
been on the railread train be
fore, so she bought her ticket and
got on, and when the train start
ed she grabbed the seat in front
of her and they'had gone about
five miles when there was a »
wreck and the conductor picked
the splinters out of her system,
and he said, “Auntie, are you
hurt? i
She said, “Lord, God Almighty,
I thou'fiht you.went that way all
the tinme.”
She came to the house and they
anked her if she enjoyed the trip.
She said, “I never saw anything
but three hay stacks and they
were going the other way.”
Like a woman who was moving
into a mew house, and as the
mirror was going in she heard
the glass rattle and she said,
“Hold on, boys; be careful. Don’t
break that glass. If you do you
will spoil my luck for seven
years."” 3
The drayman looked at her
pityingly and said, “Boys, smash
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1917.
HIGHLIGHTS IN
SERMON ON SIN
]F you want to know why there
i 8 no joy in your life—it’s your
fault.
Beusvfns should desire with
the greatest yearning the
fulfillment of the.promises of God.
That is the way to-get them.
lS the Christian life as pictured
in the Bible too high for hu
man attainment? Oh, no!
IT takes a big man to see other
people succeed and not raise a
how! of envy about it.
sarge.
lF you.-don't like the smell of
gasoline, don’t knock the fel
low who can afford it. Take your
nickel and go for a trolley ride—
and don’t growl. -
it quick. Anything to change her
luck.” ; .
That is the way I feel about
this city, if good preaching would
have saved your town you would
have been.in heaven long ago.
You need something else. Here
are people who journey all
through the Word of God from
Genesis to Revelations and they
can see nothing but a great big
hay stack going the other way.
Where did Cain get his wife?
They lose gight of these beautgtul
truths which would make capital
and labor shake hands, and it
would transform thig whisky
soaked, Sabbath-hating world in
to a paradise -of blessing and
peace, and the lamb and the lion
would lie down together and the
lamb would not be inside the lion
either; if we would gnly live for
Jesus Christ.
i stegped up to a fellow one
night i?pChicago. and T said to
him—if I named him a lot of you
lawyers-would know him—he has
been dead for many years. He
was a good friend of mine. One of
the ~-most corking lawyers. He
came into a meeting, one night in
Farwell Hall and my friend, Dr.
Berry, was speaking, and after
he got' through T said, “Well,
wasn't that a good address?”
He said, “It was very pretty;
it wag fine word painting, but I
don’t believe it.”
I -said, “Why?” and he said,
“You show me one instance
where 'the laws of WNature have
ever been abrogated above the
laws of Creation.” .
1 said. “Give me something
easy. Sit down. . Strauss, the
German infldel, said, ‘An excep
tional experience,’ meeming\Jesus.
‘proves that only by the concur
repce of sexes are beings form
ed‘:cand yet, my friends, beings
have been and are being virgin
ally produced from both the lower
and higher orders of Nature.
Don’t you kpow that eyery drone
in a hive of bees is virginally
produced by a virgin queen?
And if wu will study your Ep
cyclopedia Britannica you will
find that Huxley, in his last ar
ticle on “Biology”’ says, Through
out almost all series of living be
ings, nonsexual generation pre
vailed.”
This does not prove that Jesus
was conceived by any means, or
born of the Virgin Mary. «But
if I find these exceptions existing
in the lower orders of Nature, is
it unreasonable to suppose that if
God can and does abrogate the
laws down there. He could not
abrogate the law of Nature in
this one and highest of all be
ings, Man, and give us a Savior
concejved by the Holy Ghost?
That 'is a ddctrine, sir, sweet,
beautiful, scientific and scriptur
ally true, and if you reject Jesus
Christ because you don’t believé
he was conceived by the Holy
Ghost and born of the Virgin
Mary, you are a fool—a fool.”
“If a man will do His will he
will know of the teaching.” The
,trouble is you won't do it.
Suppose you start your boy to
school and instead of beginning
with the A B C of knowledge he
gets away over here in the fern
production from which we get all
our fossils and he looks at it and
he says: “I don’t know anything
about it.” Certainly he wiél never
know until he has learned about
the A B C knowledge, and when
you get up to that you will be
sufficiently developed to compre
hend it.
There {s an A B C in knowledge
and also in religion’~.You have to
start at the beginning if you are
going to do God’'s will. You have
to start, and learn to walk. If
You say, “T will wait until T walk,”
tb{n vou will never walk. Begin
withs the feet you have and learn
to use them.
A man heard of the beauties
of a certain river and he said, “I
am going to see for myself.” He
secured a naphtha launch and he
sailed all the day and all the
‘night and in the morning he met a
voyager and he hailed him and
safd, “T have heard of the sights
dotting here and there, but I have
sailed «il day and all night and I
have seen nothing.”
The voyager sail, “Sail on.”
He sailed all the day and night.
He met another vovager and sald,
“I have heard of the beauties or
this river and T have heard of
where the water leaps out of the
crevices and the river is kissed by
the sun, but I have sailed two
days and nights and there is-the
muddy, sluggish water,
The voyager said, “Sail on.”
He sailed ail the day and then
he met the water rushing over
the Government dams, clear and
blue; he sailed on and reached the
foot of St. Anthony, where the
water roars and tumbles and his
clothing was wet from the mois
ture. &
He gazed upon it and said, “Half
has never been told. I have seen
for myself.”
That is the position the multi
tudes of fellows are in tonight.
Here you are down in the muddy
waters of profanity, yvou lie and
steal or You are a prostitute, you
are a failure and you play trick
ery in business, then wonder why
you see no beauty in religion,
nothing in Jesus Christ, nothing
in the‘church of God Almighty.
Say, “As a man you don't hit me
there, Bill.” \
Oh, the trouble is, you are not
high enough up., That is the
trouble with you. s
Did you ever go home and did
you_ ever call your wife and chil-
I"D rather hunt mi own game by
myself than bark with the dev
il's pack at the foot of the tree.
W HATSOEVER is not of faith
is sin”"—and it doesn’t make
any difference who preaches it or
who practices it.
lF you know anything bad about
anybody, keep your mouth
shut.
GOSH-—-wouldn’t this be a great
oAd world if everybody would
mind his own business?
AND if we have done our best—
if we have done our part,
Lord, we will be forever with Thee,
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Target Practice on Anniston Rifle
. . .
Range Begins—Striking Char
acters in Camp. :
ANNISTON, ALA. Nov. 27.—With
the inaugurati®n of target practice on
the rifle range, and with the beginning
of instruction in the use of other small
arms, the division ordnance depot at
the foot of the hill near tne base hos
pital at Camp McClellan is .one of
the busiest places in the entire camp.
The divisional ordnance officer, Ma
jor 8. Jarman, assisted by Captain
Lane Schofleld and Lieutenants Hap
per, Aix:mder and Hagan, has or
ganized into an efficient working or
[ ganization the entire personnel of 105
' men of extra ability who handle the
~affairs of the depot.
R Tarbox, the “top,” has had sevs
enteen years of experience in the reg
ular army,'and he is espevially quali
fied for the important duties which
‘devolve upop the command of the
outfit. _
‘The noncommissioned personnel of
the ordnance debot company is as
follows: Ordnance sergeants,” T, R.
Ward, P. H. McCarthy, Claud Gor
don, Leslie R. Twist, James Gay, Jr,
H. Smith, John j. Gregg, Jesse Ju
liante, J. H. Houseman and James
K. Wilson; sergeants of ordnance,-J,
J. Donbhue find Paul Gordon, and
corporals, H, Harmon and John Rich
a ds. A \
Ordnahce Sergeant T. R, Ward has
Jeen confined to the base hospital for
the past few days with an attack of
‘onsillitis, but is improving.
Among the noncommissioned offi
cers in this outfit there is a great
variety of mechanical ability, ang
much talent is also included in the
organization. Ordnance Sergeant P,
. McCarthy is a member of Colum
bia Typographical Union, No. 101,
District of Columbia, and held a po
sition as monotype machinist in the
Government Printing Office in
Washington ‘“before entering the
aervice. He is a thirty-second degree
Mason and a member of Kallispolis
Grotto, Mystic- Order of the Mystic
Veil. Another fighter in the ranks of
the depot ordnance Company is Ser
geant J. J. Donohue, who nas a long
record of military service to his cred
it. Sergeant Donohue was “a soldier
of the sea,” and was “in” on the tak
ing of Vera Crug, accepting a dis
charge from the navy a month after
the Mexican incident. He is a big,
husky fellow, and for two years held
the middleweight championship of the
North Atlantie fleet. He is a black
smith by trade,
dren in, and did You ever sit down
and read the Word of God, and
did you ever say, “Now, get ‘down
on your knees an say, ‘I am seek
ing the way of life, light and sal
vation, God.’” ;
Did you ever do that and then
Bet up and live the way you had
prayed? o
I challenge you old infiedels, no
man ever did it and doubted Jesus
Christ or found the Bible false.
No man ever diq it and said,
“There is nothing in religion.”
Someltdy says that God’s na
ture and the Bible ig God's willL
That is very true, but nature is
God's will in force, That is equal
ly true.
Years ago I was up in the min
ing region in Minnesota, way up
in the Carnegie interests, and I
met a 4 man up there named Cap
tain Penduley; he was Carnegie's
representative up there, and he
took me down into the iron mines
1,200 feet. We went and roamed
through those labyrinths for an
hour and then when we came
back upon the elevator T said to
him, “Captain Penduley, you have
been miighty good and kind, but 1
want to know if you are a Chris
tlan?"
He looked at me and said, “Wil
liam, 1 worshép nature, that is my
God, that s all I need. It tells me
of love.”
I said. “Hold on. You sit on
your veranda at home and you see
the sun as it comes tripping over
the banks of the horizon, and the
mistletoe -hangs in clusters from
the branches of she trees ana the
babbling broek sings on its way
to the sen, and you sit there and
watch all that, And you listen to
the chiming of the distant village
bells that toil the weary world to
sleep. You sit upon your veranda
and see the gwallow circling
around tho eaves and gathering
around the barn. You hear the
whippoorwill as he sings his song
way down In Sleepy Hollow. Yow
listen to the village bells, ana
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