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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
THE UNFORGIVENESS OF SINS
By DR. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR. SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
"He not dcreircd: God la not mocksd.
For n hntsoercr a man aowptli that aball
he * I - rcsp.”—OnlsHsns VI: 7.
UI BELIEVE In the forgiveness of
I alns." Thla la an article of the
* creed I fully receive and fully bo
llev.-; !• .rover, I areally rejoice In IL
1 ran call thla glorious doctrine as
Charles II. Spurgeon called It “The
flr*t note of my song."
I believe In the doctrine—first, be-
tauss the word of God declares It.
the Old Testament It Is the principal
l mi lamatton of the prophets. . In the
New Teatament It Is the pith of the
meaeage of Jesus, “the son of man hath
i wer on earth to forgive sins;" and
It was the staple of apostolic preach
Iny Second, because we have the
i, 11 ness of thousands whose lives and
111 tract era sustain their witness that
tiny have experienced the Grace of
Ui.d In the pardon of sins. Third, be-
.. jae we have ourselves realised by
persaoal experience that God
Christ sake hath forgiven our Sint
mi.. for all but as often’tlll the present
have as we have sought forglvness.
■IIP la our testimony that our Father
In Heaven Is both faithful and just
to forgive us our sins.
What do I mean then by The un-
f iglveness of alns!" I mean just this,
that there are some things which for
giveness does not do. There Is some
thing In reality beyond the action of
Grace In the exercise of divine pardon
of the sinner.
Lest Innocence.
The forgiveness of sins does nol re-
' store lost Innocence. If guilt Is the
ptate of one who has sinned, then the
site of guilt la Innocence or the
state or one who has not sinned. Mani
festly for one who has been guilty of
sin Innocence la Impossible. Bln has
than one pain beyond the reach of for
giveness, one penalty that can never
lie remitted. We have entered Into
..ne incurable sorrow, the sorrow of
having sinned against God. Innocence
la gone and gone forever. The story
of the prodigal son, so beautiful and
happy In Its revelation of the Father’s
f .iglveness, has at least one misery
111 II There was the blot on the family
es. utcheon, 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 this fact, that there. Is no
way In redemption for 'the restoration
of Innocence.
Such la the pathos of the* old man’s
song— . .’.a _ . . .. u„
“Backward, turn backward, O time. In
thy flight;
Make me.a child again, just for to
night”
“A child again!” Alas; how utterly
Impossible. What, then, did Christ
mean when He set a child In the midst
of an adult company and said, “Except
ye be converted and become as little
children”? Did He mean to mock
them with an Impossible condition? Or
does He mean that conversion throws
open the gate for tip return to Inno
cence?
Does not Paul, also speak of the re
juvenated sinner as "a new born babe” 7
There la no Interpretation of the words
of Jesus or the language of Paul that
can hold out for any man in the light
of the facts of the doctrine that for
giveness restores the sinner to Inno-
cency. In the very nature of the case
not even the grace of God can anni
hilate facts. Grace can and does make
us Innocent of being guilty now. but
never clear of having lost something
to sin that Is Irrecoverable. As the
prodigal son lost something in the far
country hts gracious Tather 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.
If I 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 was 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
the pathos Of sin which hss 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
his chamber door, uttering the cease
less threnody, "Never more! Never
more!” Edgar Allan Poe, with his
own deep personal sorrow over a 'lost
manhood, brings the World of men
fade to face with Its spectral Innocence
which has gone forever.
*The other poet sat by the sea''and
heard the waves breaking bn 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 1s
dead
Will never come back to me."
Forgiveness brings a rich store of
blessing, Forgiveness, restored to
God, 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
"Tes, 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.
1. Forgiveness does not remit the
material consequences of sin In this
life.
11
rial consequences of sin In this life.”
“The splrftual 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 soweth that shall
i also reap." Invariably that law Is
Ih force. It Is In force for the for-
ven sinner as truly as for the un
irglven.
Here Is a i
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.
Hoes 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: Tho drunken Rip
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 fibers 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 yp shall of the
flesh reap corruption."
“The moving finger writes; and having
writ,
Moves on; nor alt your piety -nor wit
Shall lure It back to cancel half a line
Nor all yojir tears wash out a word of
Here Is another map; his sins have
brought sorrowful consequences not
only on himself, but on others. He bas
not sinned unto himself. I doubt If
any man ever does. His family suffers
In the consequences of his sin. His
wife, poverty end a broken life; h’
children, disease and stunted growth.
Now, this man has seen the evil of
bis life, has repentad, has been par
doned of God, 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
lifer nor cure the stunted or diseased
body and mind of that poor, helpless.
Innocent child.
Take another case. A man has done
hal
has
put
has blighted, by the Influence of his
teaching, the young men who came
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
ever they touch. That man repents,
Is forgiven,' lives a useful Christian
life. But alas! his forgiveness does not
remit the consequences of his sins.
Now, someone hhs probably said:
'But Is that always true? Does not
God cure sometimes these conse-
luences V And to that I should say:
Tes.” 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
lveness of sins In one instance car-
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.
Plscing the Blsme.
We are told that men are losing the
consciousness of sin, that sin Is no
longer a dreaded thing. The blame for
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 tills very ren-oi
that the pulpit shares with science th<
responsibility for the slight emphasis
In our time 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. . - u w.
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
they can by a short and simple course
of action with no great difficulty get
out of the itorm' they have raised. No
one knows how msny, 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
► we preach on the subject of sal-
ion. 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
mokes It right all right,"
That Is horribly untrue. Granting,
glorying In what Is 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 stllL
There are people In the church' who
are living In the tolls of the same fear
ful lie. How are 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 t$at 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 reperitance should secure
the expected absolution that the con
sequences of sin are not so easily dis
posed of.
8ins Chsnged to Crosses.
I have lifted these truths Into promi
nence In order that I might say two
other things that are great and tender
truth*. 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 alters 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
punishments. No; they are not. They
become his cross and every one must
bear his cross. Paul's thorn In the
flesh was something brought over from
hts old life of sin. He besought God
thrice to remove It but God would not.
It became to him a means of grace—
"My grace la sufficient for thee." Take
each of the Illustrations I have used—
the diseased Christian, the mutilated
family, .tie 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 reparsing 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 as 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
help them to rise again.
Finally, may 1 bring before you this
tender gracious message from all the
raised?
rig sinner, r ■ *
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 prodigal son crept closer
than he ever was before to the father's
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. DEB,
PASTOR TRINITY M. E. CHURCH
r
HE failure to recognise God at
work, In Ills Immeasurable plan
tation, has been due to false no
tions concerning the so-called laws of
nature. These, like the overseers the
Southern plnnters employed to manngo
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, sufllclent-
ly amazing to arouse the most vivid
•«nri- of hit prtasnea, he would call
back his agents and retire again to
e nne place of rest. In some such
fashion God wns supposed to run His
world When He was not directly
present performing wonders, the laws
. r nature, second causes, and other
subordinate agencies had matters In
charge. Now the laws of nature, os
active agents for doing things In the
absence of God, have about had their
day. A deeper Insight Into the relation
of God to His world shows that He
never needed them and never used
them.
"Among so many, can He care?
Can special love be everywhere?
From the great spaces, vague and dim,
Slay one small household gather Him?
I aaked: my soul bethought of this;
In Just that very place of His
Where He hath put and keepeth you,
God hath no other thing to do."
P . By the very constitution of our minds
ws are forced to believe that every
event haa a cause, that every move-
ment, from the circumlocution of an
atom to the revolution of a sun, hns
a cause. And while It often happens
that we are unable to flx 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 haa a cause. The
mental necessity of regarding every
sort of activity as having a cadse haa
doubtless had something to do with
the general notion that the lawa of
nature are causea. Something waa
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
Held 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 Inereaaad
by tile, observations and experiments
of stUdeiits, It Is easy to understand
the fear felt by ao many that science
was about to rule the one God out of
the cosmos, and set up In His place a
multitude of little gods, called laws.
But the lawa .of nature are nelthetr
forces nor causes nor agents—they are
the uniform habits .of the Almighty,
who holds everythtlng In the grasp of
His will.
Hers la a peach hanging from the
limb.of a tree. It la not there without
a cause. The tree that bore It has Its
laws of arowth, but these did not make
the tree grow. The peach has Its
laws of progress from blossom to fruit,
but these did not turn a flower Into a
' globe of delicious Juice. The peach
te Idea of aweetness Incarnate. To
ward such an expression of Itself tbsre
Is not an atom 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 tho 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
peach. The plan In accordance with
which the tree grows Is definite, and
the Idea toward which It moves Is 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 peaches 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 atbms from the
mind of the Creator, ns tho Psalms
could never gladden the hearts of
saints If they were not sent to them
from the aoul of David.
John Flake asks: “Once really ad
mit tho conception of an ever-present
God, without whiftn not a sparrow falls
lo the ground, and 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 and human way, cause
may be represented as the Influx of a
man's mental volitions Into his bodily
acts, and os we are able to study the
odean In a drop of water, and the sun
In an electric spark, so, from this mi
nute bit oT cause in'man we may get
e >me Idea of It In Its unlimited senae.
ause In God Is the outflow of His vo
litions In producing and guiding the
whole sum of things, together with ev-
partlcle of matter; or force In It
dies attract each other In propor
tion to their mass and Inversely as the
squares of their distance.” This Is rail
ed a law of nature, but It Is, In reality,
Professor Huxley says, "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. JAME8 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 has
together the masses
Ich are free to move,
sparrow falling to the ground furnishes
us with a concrete and direct expres
sion of the will of God. But the work
ty Is not recognised In
cause we have without
any reason fallen In the false notion of
supposing that He delegates the func
tion of pulling the bodlee together to
one of His agents, which In this In
stance we call the law of gravitation*
If God la 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, aiyl God would
be, ruled out altogether. Some might
suppose It hardly In keeping with thf
majesty of the Infinite to regard Him
ns 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 lawa to create
things. It Is mors 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 Hla will, 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,
M Imminent In
i onlooker, with
ing ws 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 KouL And thla view of
the Almighty science has not only
made possible, but bas made a neces
sity of thought.
Lord Kelvin, one ofrihe foremost men
of science In the world, has recently
declared, ‘1 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 (he 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 Hla 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 And 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 fire we warm by, In the food'we
eaL In the clothes we wear, there la a
perfect storm of little polnte too fine to
see and too rapid to hear. Upon what
strange shores do we find ourselves
cast. If all the shot and shell of the
elements are under the control of no
great Being, who li using them to ex
press His will. Life Is a dream, an
orgnnlzed delirium, spent amid scenery
made up of furiously active little let
ters, lf .no master 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 freezing 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 8,900,000,000, and that
the average velocity Is something like
eighteen mites a minute. Remember
that In one cubic Inch of breath there
are estimated to be three hundred
n unions of particles, and every one
em le 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 Blr 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 alse, shape, affinity and weight.
That all are kept In measured and ex
act order. That not one ever loses It-
, or forgets on any occasion to be
__ sr 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 In perfect order around us,
can we eecape the conclusion that they
are being used to spell out some mean
ing of unspeakable Import? Haydn gavs
his immortal oratorio, "Creation,”
through a few notes of the mualcsl
scale, and Raphael reproduced hla 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 Idea, 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
■oule to feel!
GOSSIP OF=
STATESMEN AND POLITICIANS
The Smokers' Club made a victim of
Solicitor Ennis, of the Rome circuit,
' while he waa paying a short visit to
the bouse Friday. He said he felt that
hr waa getting bff easy with a dollar,
v hen he got In with the crowd that
forms tho Smokers' Club.
Hon. Henry St. George Tucker, of
the Jamestown Exposition, haa been
extended a seat on the floor of the
house during his stay In Atlanta. He
list* been a regular attendant for sev
eral days and will make an address
before the general assembly Tuesday
at noon.
When the sturgeon flsh bill by Mr.
Dunbar, of Richmond, was taken up
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Friday, there waa an Interesting dis
cussion of Ash' of different sorts. Mr.
Anderson, of Chatham, naked 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 waa passed and no 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 call down to Mr. Hardman, of Jack-
eon, Friday, that caused a bit of laugh
ter among the members of the house
sitting near the speaker’s desk.
The speaker hail been trying for
some time to get better order In the
house, but the members would not atop
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 Jacluon?”
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impressions Taken and Work delivered Same Day.
This Is s Dental School where Dentists at nets of axpsvi-
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Work and Dents! Operations, lie student! allowed to
enter. Fallen to patronising us will set the advantage of
experience and skill at cost, which they could not getoke-
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ATLANTA POST GRADUATE DENTAL SCHOOL
DU. W. 1. CONWAY, Manager.
2nd floor Slriscr-fsttry BulUInj.Ptsditrte Strut, 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 If you wont to hear a few
arguments. Hoke Bmlth and Clark
Howell can. _
almost every day, out
room at the right of the hall of rep
resentatives.
Mr. Wilson, of Gwinnett, said that
It was necessary for the lawyers In
the house to talk a lot on the bills In
volving legal matters, for many of
them didn't have a chance to do much
talking at home.
Mr. Butte, one of the hunters of the
house, has Introduced a bill prohibiting
repeating and magazine 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, and
the friend shot so fast that he killed
all the birds. Now the gentleman from
Olynn Is getting back at him.
The bill to prohibit the manufacture
and sale of cigarettes In the stpte came
up Friday. The members smiled and
some one moved that 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
Bmokers' Club Is composed of any who
happen to be In the smoking room
when an easy looking stranger comes
In.
COL, ADAMS' REMAINS
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Special to The Georgian.
Bowman, Go., July 14.—The body of
Colonel T. L. Adams arrived here yes
terday and was Interred In the Bow-
‘IMMORAL HEAVEN”
TO BE TIIE THEME
Dr. Wllmer and His Immoral
Heaven” will be the subject of what
promises to be an exceptionally Inter
esting discussion by Rev. Dr. Len G.
Broughton, at the Tabernacle Baptist
Church. Sunday evening.
Dr. Wllmer, while speaking before
the Credit Men's Association, declnred: I
| ‘if heaven could be gained In fifteen |
minutes It would be an Immoral heav
en.” The utterance met with n round
of applause, and It is Dr. Broughton's
I purpose, he says, to dissect the mean
ing of the sentence to the core.
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man cemetery with the ceremonlea of
the Masonic fraternity, a crowd of 800
or 1,000 people attending.
Some time since. Colonel Adams left
his home hers to visit his brother In
Washington. In two days after hie ar
rival there, he lay a corpse, the victim
of heart failure.
He leavea a widow In Bowman, also
a daughter, Mlsa Delray, who Is widely
known as a literary teacher and church
worker; another daughter, Mrs. How
ard Arnold, of Bowman; the third Is
Mrs. Dr. B. C, Teasley, of Hartwell,
Ga.; the only son, Eldo H. Adams, la a
railroad man, of Cheater, B. C.
WAS JOE DORSETT
A SLEEP-WALKER?
That Joe L. Doraett, who fell from
the Equitable building and was killed
last Monday afternoon, waa a somnam
bulist and walked through an open
window while asleep, le the theory ad
vanced by N. K. Smith, of Acworth,
Ga. In a letter to The Georgian, Mr.
Bmlth states that he knew Doreett
well and knew that he was given to
doing strange things while walking In
hla sleep.
Mr. 8m
or>' le absurd and that ___
never have taken his 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?
Special to The Georgian.
Covington. Ga, July 14.—Robert W.
Childs, of Newborn district, one of the
most prominent citizens of the county,
fell dead In his field yesterday after
noon.
Mr. Cbllda left Newborn at 4 o’clock
seemingly In good health, and hla death
an hour later was a great shock to hie
relatives and acqualntancea
He leaves a wife and four children,
Mrs J. J. Carter, Mrs. J. W. Pitta,
Miss Use Childs and Mr. J. H. CbUda
all of Newborn,
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