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THE UNFORGIVENESS OF SINS
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By DR. JOHN K. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
lot deceived; God Is not mocked,
ataoever • man eowcth that ahalt
he aim reap."—Galatians VI: 7.
4 4? BELIEVE In the forgiveness of
I Bins." Thia la nn article of the
* creed I fully receive and fully be
lieve; moreover, I itreatly rejoice- In It.
1 ran call title glorious doctrine aa
t-'harlea H. Spurgeon called It “The
tirst note of my eon*."
1 believe In the doctrine—first, be-
< auaa the word of God declare. It. In
the Old Testament It la the principal
11" tarnation of the prophete. In the
’ New Teatament It la the pith of the
i essage of Jesus, "the aon of man hath
l m-er on earth to forgive etna;" and
It wae the ataple of apostolic preach
ing Second, becauae we have the
- wltnaaa of thouaanda whoae Ilvea and
• hamcters auataln their wltneaa that
they havfc experienced the Grace of
God In the pardon of alna. Third, be-
: cause we have ouraefvea realised by
personal experience that Ood for
Christ sake bath forgiven our slnt.
once for all but as often till the present
have as we have sought forglvness.
This is our testimony that our Father
in Heaven la both faithful and Just
to forgive ua our alna.
What do I mean then by "The un-
forglvenesa of alna?" I mean Juat thla.
that there are aome things which for
giveness does riot do. There Is some-
thing In reality beyond the action of
Grace In the exercise of divine pardon
of the sinner.
Lott Innocence.
The forgiveness of alna does not re
store lost Innocence. If guilt Is the
state of one who has sinned, then the
opposite of guilt Is Innocence or the
state of one who has not sinned. Mani
festly for one who has been guilty of
sin Innocence la Impoaalble. Sin has
then one pain beyond the reach of for-
R veness, one penalty that can never
I remitted We have entered Into
one Incurable sorrow, the sorrow of
having sinned against Ood. Innocence
Is gone and gone forever. The story
of the prodigal son, so beautiful and
happy In Its revelation of the Father's
forgiveness, has at least one misery
In It. There was the blot on the family
escutcheon, the skeleton In the family
closet, the misery of the fact that the
prodigal had gone wrong.
I do not know a more melancholy
fact than thla fact, that there Is no
way In redemption for the rest
of innocence.
Such la the* pathos of the old man’s
song—
"Backward, turn backward, O time. In
thy flight;
Make me a child again, Juat for to.
night.”
“A child again!" Alaa, how utterly
Impoaalble. What, then, did Christ
mean when He set a child |p the midst
of nn adult company and aald, "Except
ye be converted and become aa little
children"? Did He mean to mock
them with an Impossible condition
does He mean that conversion throws
open the gate for the return to Inno
cence 7
Does not Paul also apeak of the re
juvenated sinner as “a new born babe"?
There Is no Interpretation of the words
of Jesus or the language of Paul that
ran hold out for any man In the light
of the facta of the doctrine that for
giveness restores the sinner to Inno-
rency. In the very nature of the rase
not even the grace of God can anni
hilate facts. Grace can and does make
ua Innocent of being guilty now, but
never clear - of having loat something
to sin that Is Irrecoverable. As the
prodigal son lost something In the far
country hla gracious Father could not
replace, so we have every one to suffer
the sorrow and the pain of "a blot on
the escutcheon," though we are safe
at home In our Fathers house.
were trying to explain the ever
throbbing note of pain In humanity
which Is discernible over the face of
the whole creation I would say that
this wna the explanation. The race
carries In a deep consciousness the un
translatable grief of a lost Innocence,
a violated childhood. The coming of
Christ did not silence* the woe, the
preaching of the cross does not assuage
:he pain, but they rather Intensify and
awaken the great grief of mankind to
the pathos of sin which has left this
shadow on the souls of men. Two of
our great English poets have voiced
the world's experience with sin. One
of them saw a raven sitting just above
hla chamber door, uttering the cease
less threnody, '"Never mors! Never
morel" Edgar Allan Poe, with hts
own deep personal sorrow over a lost
manhood, brings the world of men
own di
“ “ nn
face to face with Its spectral Innocence
which has gone fbrever.
The other poet sat by the sea and
heard the waves breaking on the rocks,
rolling out and ever returning. Tenny
son Interprets the pathetic longing of
all hearts that sigh with an Inexplica
ble yearning for Innocence.
"Break, break, break, on thy cold gray
crags, O, sea.
But the tender grace of a day that Is
dead
Will never come back to me."
Forgiveness brings a rich store of
blessing. Forgiveness, restored to
Ood, empowered for today, and the fu
ture, a robe, a ring and a feast, but we
wait In vain for the recovery ,of lost
Innocence.
"Yes, thou forglvest, but with all for
giving
Can'st not restore mine Innocence
again.
Make Thou, Oh, Christ, a dying of my
living, «
Pure from the sin, but never from
the pain.”
The Untouched Remainder.
2. Forgiveness does not remit the
material consequences of sin In this
life.
Mark carefully these words, "mate
rial consequences of sin In this life.”
The spiritual consequences” or the
effect of sin as determining a man's
relation to God, forgiveness does remit
as at another time I have shown. But
the material consequences, the physi
cal, social and moral consequences of
sin forgiveness does not Interrupt.
"Whatsoever a man sowetjt that shall
also reap." Invariably that law. Is
In force. It Is In force for the for
given sinner as truly as for the un-
forglven.
Here Is a man and there are proba
bly some such here today who. through
sins long ago committed, Is burdened
with physical ailments, nervous dis
orders or diseases of one kind or an
other. The man of whom I speak has
repented; for many years he has lived
a straight, consistent life, but every
day he lives, the consequences of his
sins are upon him. That man knows
that what I say Is true. Forgiveness
DR, JOHN E. WHITE.
does not remit the physical conse
quences of his sin.
In that most eminent book on psy
chology by Professor James there oc
curs this passage: "The drunken Blp
Van Winkle excuses himself for every
fresh dereliction by saying: 'I won't
count this time.’ Well, he may not
count It and a kind Heaven may not
count It, but It Is being counted none
the less. Down among his nerve cells
and flbe'rs the molecules are counting
It, registering and storing It up to be
used against him when the next temp
tation comes. Nothing that we ever
do Is, In strict scentlflc literalness,
wiped out. The only objection to be
made to that statement Is In the con
cession of doubt he makes to “a kind
Heaven." A kind Heaven does count
It when .the molecules are counting It
"If you sow to the flesh ye shall of the'
flesh reap corruption."
"The moving Anger writes; and having
writ,
Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit
Shall lure It back to cancel half a line
Nor all your tears wash out a word of
Here Is another man; his sins have
brought sorrowful consequences not
only on himself, but on others. He has
not sinned unto himself. I doubt if
any man ever does. His family suffers
In the consequences of his sin. His
wife, poverty and a broken life; his
children, disease and stunted growth.
Now, this man has seen the evil of
his life, has repented, has been par
doned of Ood. pardoned of men, has
gotten all there Is to get from the for
giveness of sins. But the consequences
abide in the lives of others. Forgive
ness does not heal that woman’s hurt
life, nor cure the stunted or dlees
body and mind of that poor, helpless,
Innocent child.
Take' another case. A man has done
what la possibly the greatest sin. He
has set In motion evil Influences, has
>ut forth noxious needs of thought or
as blighted, by the Influence of his
teaching! the young men who rams
within his way. The currents are run
ning In a thousand channels. They
have passed beyond all reckoning out
Into the sea of society to poison wher-
r they touch. That man repents.
Is forgiven, lived a useful Christian
Ilfs. But alas! his forgiveness does not
remit the consequences of his sins.
Now, someone has probably said:
'But Is that always true? Does not
God cure sometimes these conse
quences?" And to that.I should say:
'Yes.” Sometimes God says: “Thy
sins be forgiven thee. Take up thy bed
and walk." But I Insist that there is
no essential connection between the
forgiveness of sins and the remission
of these physical consequences, and If
forgiveness of sins In one Instance car
ried with It also the healing of disease,
It would always carry that with It,
which we know Is not true. Surely, If
any man was ever forgiven. It was
David—but the consequences of his sin
was writ large In Israel's history, and
In that of his offspring.
Placing the Blame.
We are told that men are losing the
consciousness of sin, that sin Is no
longer a dreaded thing. The blame tor
this condition and trend Is laid on the
head of science. But does It belong al
together there? I have brought Into
bold prominence certain Irremediable
penalties of sin and for this very reason
that the pulpit shares with science the
responsibility for the slight emphasis
In our tlms on the dreadful nature of
sin.
I want you to see that sin Is malig
nant and mighty. No man can afford
to treat It lightly. No man can sin
with Impunity expecting to get out of
it easily.
Forgiveness Is no cheap and easy
way of escape. There are thousands
unconsciously deluded by preaching
that makes It appear so. By the way In
which we sometimes preach the grace
of God and the plan of salvation, peo
ple wide and far have the feeling that
out of the storm they hare raised.
one knows how many, but I have
doubt there are millions outside the
church In the ranks of the unsaved
masses of men who find a comfortable
permission to continue In sin from the
way we preach on the subject of sal
vation. They say to themselves and
have they not some warrant for such
a reflection, "Oh, well. If forgiveness
will do all that the preachers say I can
go on and then some day I can lay It
all on Christ—a little talk with Jesus
makes It right all right”
That Is horribly untrue. Granting,
glorying In what <■ true, I declare to
you It Is awful for men to get such an
Idea of sin as this, and to get It from
the pulpit more awful still.
There are people In the church who
are living In the tolls of the same fear
ful lie. How ars so many sinful and
sln-Indulglng Christians to be account
ed for? If they are not sinning that
grace may abound they are sinning
under the consolation that grace does
abound. It has been taught them with
no Inflection of emphasis on the safe
guarding truth. They sin expecting to
pray about It later. In the postponed
penitence they aim to make a clean
breast and thrust It all on Christ. It Is
well ,for every man who hears me to
know and know well, that even though
his trivial repentance should secure
the expected absolution that the con
sequences of sin are not so easily dis
posed of. ,
Sint Changed to Crossts.
I have lifted these truths Into promi
nence In order that I might say two
other things that are great and tender
iruths. These consequences which God
In forgiveness does not remit have a
tremendous disciplinary value In our
lives. Forgiveness does not remove
them, but It greatly altera their mean
ing to the forgiven sinner. By for
giveness they are changed from pun
ishment Into crosses. I have not said
at all that these abiding consequences
of sin upon the Christian's life are his
K nfshments. No, they are not. They
tome his cross and every one must
bear hts cross. Paul's thorn In the
flesh was something brought over from
his old life of sin. He besought God
thrice to remove it but God would not
It became to him n means of grace—
“My grace Is sufficient for thee.” Take
each of the Illustrations 1 hare used—
the d|seued Christian, the mutilated
family, fne far-reaching consequence
from the Influential sinner. When for
giveness has come to these men and
to all like them, the consequences of
their sins become their crosses. When
the twinge of physical pain, or the
sight of the pale-faced, faded woman
and the stunted child or the reapers
of the harvest of evil Influences, pass
ing and repasslng appear, these men
bow their heads under the weight of
the cross and gird up their loins to do
In remaining days all the good they
can os the debt they owe and must
bear always. Must we not all see that
the one largest duty of life Is to bear
the sins of others. We have some
times helped others to fall; we must
' > them to rise again,
inally, may I bring before you this
tender gracious message from all the
dark background I have raised?
It Is this suffering sinner, forgiven
but suffering still the wounds of sin
and,the.scars, who gets closest to the
very heart of the Father God. Where
God cannot help us he loves us the
more. The r
than he ever t , .
heart. The father could not help the
fact that he had once gone wrong, had
brought a stain Into the home. He
could forgive his rebellion and per
versity, but the consequences many of
them remained Impossible to be re
moved. So he loved him freely and
most tenderly.
God's best Is love. Better than cures
of body or of mind. It cures the heart.
Oh, by all the consequences of our sins,
let us arise and go to our Father.
By DR. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY M. B. CHURCH
T HE failure to recognise God at
wprk. In His. Immeasurable plan
tation, has been due to false no
tions concerning the so-called laws of
nn'ture. These, like the overseers the
Southern planters employed to manage
their slaves before the civil war, were
supposed to look after things, while the
master, for the most part, was off on
vacation, but appearing now and then
on the scene of activity to order the
overseers off the ground and to take
hold of matters direct. After a few
extraordinary performances, sufficient
ly amaxlng to arouse the most vivid
sense of his presence, he would call
baric his agents and retire again to
eorin place of rest. In some such
fashion God was supposed to run His
wofl-
of .nnture, second causes, and other
sulnrdlnste agencies had matters Ip
ch*ge. Now the laws of nature, os
active agents for doing things In the
abrance of Ood, have about had their
dajl . A deeper Insight Into the relation
of Bod to His world shows that He
newer needed them and never used
thejn.
"Among so many, can He care?
Can special love be everywhere?
Fr.<m the great spares, vague and dim,
May one Small household father Him?
I Iked: my soul bethought of this;
In lust that very place of His
Wtisre He hath put and keepeth you,
God hath no other thing to do.”
By the very constitution of our minds
. we are forced to believe that every
event has a cause, that every move
ment, from the circumlocution of an
atom to the revolution of a sun, has
a cause. And while It often happens
that we are unable to fix our minds
upon the exact cause of this or that
occurrence, yet, without exception, all
men who think at all believe that
whatever takes place has a cause. The
mental necessity of regarding every
sort of activity as having a cause has
doubtless had something to do with
the general notion that the laws of
nature are causes. Something was
constantly happening, or taking place,
and It required no mental effort to
drop Into the easy habit of thinking
that little laws were causing things to
act as, they did. The overseers were
so much In evidence that the workers
on the plantation forgot that there was
any master at all, and even If there was
he kept at such a distance from the
field that he did not count for much.
Taking It for granted that the laws of
nature were causative agents, and see
ing their number constantly Increased
by theHVbSgjOtlons and experiments
or students, It Is easy to understand
multitude of little gotta, call
But the. laws-o£»nature are nelthotr
forces uor causes nor agents—they are
lltw 11111141?#/ habits of the Almighty,
who holds everytjttlng In the brasp of
His will, : I
Here Is a peach hanging from the
limb of> a tree. It Is not there without
a cause. The tree that bore It has Its
laws of growth, but these did not make
the tree' grow. The peach has Its
laws o'
but th'
red globe of delicious Juice. The pencil
Is th» TdWrbriWMlness Incarnate. To-
S ard suchraa,expression of Itself there
not an atbm In the tree that does not
conspire with all the other atoms In
It to move. The lines of least resist
ance must all be determined and ad
justed In relation to the Idea of the
tree, of the root, of the branches, of
the leaves, of the bud, and of the fruit;
each molecule In the tree must be spe
cially determined to advance toward a
I
peach. The plan In accordance with
which the tree grows Is definite, and
the Idea toward which It moves la not
that of a gourd, but that of a peach.
If fruit, by any sort of poetic license,
could be called music, then It would be
proper to say that peacheg are the
songs, all the molecules In the tree
seemed bent on singing. The conclu
sion Is that no peach could ever hang
from the limb of a tree were It not
sent there through the atoms from the
mind of the Creator, as the Psalms
could never gladden the hearts of
saints If they were not sent to them
from the soul of David.
John Flake asks: "Once really ad
roit the conception of an ever-preHent
God, without whom not a sparrow falls
to the ground, nnd It becomes self-
evident that the law of gravitation Is
but the expression of a particular mode
of divine action. And what Is true of
one law Is true of all laws.”
II.
In a limited nnd human way, cause
may be represented as the Influx of a
man's mental volitions Into his. bodily
acts, and as we are able to study the
ocean In n drop of water, and the sun
In nn electric spark, so, from this .mi
nute bit of'cause In man we nifty get
some Idea of It In Its unlimited sense.
Cause In God Is the outflow of Ills vo
litions In producing apd guiding the
whole sum of things, together with ev
ery particle of matter; or force In It.
"Bodies attract each other In propor
tion to their mass and Inversely os the
squares of their distance." This Is coll-
o'law of nature, but It Is, In reality,
Professor Huxley soys, "A statement
of the manner In which experience
shows that bodies, which are free to
move, do, In fact, move toward one
another.” Now when the sparrow falls
the earth rises. What the sparrow
lacks In mass of body It •makes up In
the speed with which It descends. And
what the earth lacks In the rapidity
with which It rises to meet the bird,
DR. JAMES W. LEE.
It makes up In mass. A definition of
the law of gravitation Is nothing but a
concise description of the uniform way
the will of the great First Cause hat
of pulling together the masses of
things which are free to move. A
sparrow falling to the ground furnishes
us with a concrete and direct expres
sion of the will of God. But the work
of the Almighty Is not recognised In
the process because we have without
any reason fallen In the false notion of
supposing that He delegates the func
tion of pulling the bodies together to
one of His agents, which In this In
stance we call the. law of gravitation.
If God Is omniscient, If His eyes run
to and fro throughout the whole earth
every Instant, what use are we to sup
pose He has for so many little agents
to manage his Interests. He certainly
did not delegate the function of mak
ing things at the start to laws, because
this would be equal to saying that
laws made all that Is, and God would
bo ruled out aitbgether. Some might
suppose It hardly In keeping with the
majesty of the Infinite to regard Him
us concerning Himself about the small
details of creation. But He did con
cern Himself In the beginning to make
them, and put them to work. If He
did not make them, He made a law for
every atom and molecule of them, and
delegated these little laws to create
things. It Is more In keeping with the
majesty of the Holy One who Inhabit--
eth eternity to make all the things of
creation and then govern them ac
cording to His wllL than to make all
the little laws necessary In order to
get all the little things made, and then
turn all the little things over to the
management of the little laws, with
out His active agency at all. The
verbal devices to which writers have
resorted to save God from the labor In
volved In running His world direct are
remarkable. When we think, however,
of the supreme Being as Imminent In
the world not as an Idle onlooker, with
little laws doing His work, but as eter
nally active Himself, through the use
He makes of elements and forces, we
get a conception of Him, unspeakably
great, and besides very full of comfort
to the religious soul. And this view of
the Almighty science has not only
made possible, but has made a neces
sity of thought.
Lord Kelvin, one of the foremost men
of science In the world, has recently
declared, "I cannot say that with re
gard to the origin of life, science neith
er affirms nor denies creative power.
Science positively affirms creating and
directive power, which she compels us
to accept as an article of belief."
There Is no alternative now between
atheism, blank, absurd, Impotent and
Impossible, and belief In a personal
God, who In the beginning created the
heavens and the earth, and by the
constant exercise of His will keeps
them created and moving perpetually
toward the consummation of His pur.
pose.
Browning expresses It:
"All changes at His Instantaneous will.
Not by the operation of a law,
Whose maker Is elsewhere at other
work.”
III.
Look out In the world and see what
Is going on In every cubic Inch of the
atmosphere. Without stirring a step,
all the chemists alive might find enough
In a small bit of air to engage their
attention for a generation. See flaming
suns and Innumerable bright worlds
yonder sweeping round vast circles of
space. Remember that the very earth
beneath our feet Is made up of parti
cles, every one of which, like every star
above, Is Impelled to ceaseless activity.
Think of the measureless armies of
molecules which are bombarding us In
cessantly with aim far surer than the
Japanese took In sending cannon balls
Into Port Arthur. Everywhere In the
air we breathe, In the water we drink,
In the Are we warm by. In the food we
eat, Id the clothes we wear, there Is a
perfect storm of little points too fine to
see and too rapid to hear. Upon what
strange shores do we And ourselves
cast. If all the shot and shell of the
elements are under the control of no
great Being, who la using them to ex
press His will. Life Is a dream, an
organised delirium, spent amid scenery
made up of furiously active little let
ters, If no mnster mind Is holding them
and using them to write some great
literature. Just think, or at least try
to think, that the particles of one of the
elements of water at the freexlng point,
move, according to the chemists, at 70
miles a minute, and must suffer 17,.
700,000,000 collisions In a second. Con
sider that In the air the number of
collisions between the particles In a
second Is about 8,000,000,000, and that
the average velocity Is something like
eighteen miles a minute. Remember
that In one cublo Inch of breath there
are estimated to be three hundred
qulntllllons of particles, and every one
of them Is under the necessity of chang
ing Its direction In the neighborhood
of 8,900,000,000 times a second. Keep
In mind the thought that all these
atoms, In’ the language of Sir John
Herschell, act like "manufactured arti
cles." That each one Is perfect after Its
kind. That there are about seventy
different kinds of them. That they
vary In slxe, shape, affinity nnd weight.
TJiat all arc kept In measured and ex
act order. That not one ever loses It
self, or forgets on any occasion to be
other than Itself. That each maintains
the character with which It started
upon Its career millions of years ago
through all the clash and rush of move
ment to which It Is subjected. Now,
when we take a mere glance at the
outer edges of the points or force cen
ters, which like so much movable type
are packed tn perfect order around us,
can we escape the conclusion that they
being used to spell out some mean-
_ of unspeakable Import? Haydn gave
his Immortal oratorio. "Creation,"
through a few notes of the musical
scale, and Raphael reproduced his vis
ion of "The Transfiguration" through
a few pinches of coloring matter mixed
with ether waves. But with symbols
piled to the sun and on and on world
without end, and with billions of them
In every square Inch of the measure
less way. and each symbol the costume
of an Idee, what music, what visions,
what systems of truth must the Lord
of all be striving to give those who
have ears to hear and eyes to see and
souls to feel!
GOSSIP GIG
STATESMEN AND POLITICIANS
The Smokers' Club made a victim of
S' llcltor Ennis, of the Rome circuit,
Willie he was paying a short visit to
the house Friday. He said he felt that
he was getting off easy with a dollar,
when he got In with the crowd that
forms the Smokers' Club.
the Jamestown Exposition, has been
extended a seat on the floor of the
house during his stay In Atlanta. He
has been a regular attendant for sev
eral days and will make nn address
before the general assembly Tuesday
at noon.
Just Received
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SAMUEL G. WALKER,
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Friday, there was an Interesting dis
cussion of fish of different sorts. Mr.
Anderson, of Chatham, asked Mr. Dun
bar to explain how the sturgeon was
caught and everything about It. It
was considerable Jesting that the gen
tleman from Augusta received, but his
bill was passed and nn more South
Carolina people will catch the sturgeon
out of the Savannah river.
Messrs. Hardman and Holder, of
Jackson, are both doctors. You could
tell this from the character of the bills
they have Introduced, all of which have
something to do with their profession.
When they get up to argue on a bill
they bring the medical appliances
along. Their demonstrations before
the house attract much attention.
Speaker Slaton administered a pret
ty coll down to Mr. Hardman, of Jack-
son, Friday, that caused a bit of laugh
ter among the members)of the house
sitting near the speaker’s desk.
The speaker had been trying for
some time to get better order In tpe
house, but the members would not stop
talking. Finally Mr. Speaker said:
"Will the gentlemen In the house
please take their seats and cease from
audible conversation, so as not to dis
turb the gentleman from Jackson?"
DENTAL COLLEGE OPEN ALL SUMMER
IMPRESSIONS TAHKN AND WORK DtLIVCAIO SAME DAV.
This l«e Dental School where Dentists of ream ofeiperl-
ears some to learn tke leteet tkines In Crown end Bridge
Work and Dental Operations. No otudonto allowed tn
enter. Patient# patrontring ua will get the advantage of
experience end skill at root, which they could net get etee-
where. Gee. Air er Local Injection administered for the
PAINLESS EXTRACTION OF TEETH
Thla Is n regular chartered Dental College, running 12
swaths lathe yanr, end Al wars Oran. Berastn bar the plate
ATLANTA POST GRADUATE DENTAL SCHOOL
DR. W, S, CONWAV, Msssasn.
2nd Hoof Sltlncr-Imery BuWktf.Peschtrw Street. ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Mr. Hardman suddenly stopped talk
ing.
Politics la not mentioned on the floor
of the house, but Just go In the smok
ing room tf you want to hear a few
arguments, Hoke Smith and Clnrtt
Howell carry every county In the state
almost every da)-, out In that little
room at the right of the hall of rep
resentatives.
Mr. WHson, of Gwinnett, said that
It was necessary for the lawyers In
the house to talk a lot on the bills In-
Mr. Butts, one of the hunters of the
house, has Introduced a bill prohibiting
repeating and magaalne shotguns In
hunting quail, doves and partridges In
the state. A few of the intimates of
the gentleman from Glynn say that he
went out hunting last fall with a man
who had a better gun than he, ami
the friend shot so fast that he killed
all the birds. Now the gentleman from
Glynn Is getting back at him.
The blit to prohibit the manufacture
and sale of cigarettes In the state came
up Friday. The members smiled and
some one moved thnt it be tabled. Then
several members went to the smoking
room and smoked a couple just to
show what they thought of the bill.
For the benefit of the uninitiated, the
Smokers' Club Is composed of any who
happen to be In the smoking room
when an easy looking stranger comes
tn.
COL, ADAMS' REMAINS
AT
Special to The Georgian.
Bowman, Oa., July 14.—The body of
Colonel T. L. Adams arrived here yes
terday and was Interred In- the B'ow-
‘IMMORAL HEAVEN”
TO BE THE THEME
"Dr. Wllmer and His Immoral
Heaven" will be the subject of what
promises to be on exceptionally Inter
esting discussion by Rev. Dr. Len O.
Broughton, at the Tabernacle Baptist
Church, Sunday evening.
Dr. Wllmer, while speaking before
the Credit Men’s Association, declared:
"If heaven could lie gained In fifteen
minutes It would be nn Immoral heav
en.” The utterance inet with a round
of applause, and It is Dr. Broughton's
purpose, he says, to dissect the mean
ing of the sentence to th* core.
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man cemetery with the ceremonlee of
the Masonic fraternity, a crowd of 800
or 1,000 people attending.
Some time since. Colonel Adame left
his home here to visit his brother In
Washington. In two days after his ar
rival there, he lay a corpse, the victim
of heart failure.
He leaves a widow In Bowman, also
a daughter. Miss DSIrey, who Is widely
known aa a literary teacher and chnrch
worker; another daughter, Mrs. How
ard Arnold, of Bowman; the third Is
Mrs. Dr. B. C. Teaslsy, of Hartwell,
Oa.; the only son, Eldo H. Adams, Is a
railroad man, of Chester, 8. C.
WAS JOE DORSETT
A SLEEP-WALKER?
That Joe L. Dorsett, who fell from
the Equitable building and was killed
last Monday afternoon, was a somnam
bulist and walked through an open
window; while asleep. Is the theory ad
vanced by N. K. Smith, of Acworth,
Ga. In a letter to The Georgian, Mr.
Smith states that. he knew Dorsett
well and knew that he was given to
doing strange thing* while walking In.
hie sleep.
Mr. Sm
ory le absurd and that
never have taken hie own life. He
pays a high tribute to the character of
the young man.
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Bpeclal to The Georgian.
Covington, Ga., July 14.—Robert W.
Childs, of Newborn district, one of the
most prominent cltlsens of the county,
fell dead In his field yesterday after
noon. *
Mr. Childs left Newborn at 4 o’clock
seemingly tn good health, and his death
an hour later was a great shock to bis
relatives and acquaintances.
He leaves a wife and four children.
Mrs. J. J. Carter,, Mr*. J. W. Pitts,
Miss Mae Childs and Mr. J. 1L Childs;
all of Newborn.
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