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TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. flfli -il = THE UNFORGIVENESS OF SINS ji, 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 A Complete Line of —ANSCO CAMERAS— All the latest Improvements.. Full line of amateur supplies. Bast ama teur finishing tn the city. SAMUEL G. WALKER, 85 Peachtree St. 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. You Are Accessible To the world if you are a Bell Telephone subscriber. Listings for next Directory Close JULY 25. If you wish to become a subscriber or change your listing or take a different class of’ser- vice now is the time to act. <J Reasonable Rates. Call Contract Dept., M. 1300 BELL 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. PROMINENT FARMER FALLS DEAD IN FIELD ARE YOU AN AD WRITER ? 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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