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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 Just Received A Complete Line of —ANSCO CAMERAS— All the latest Improvements.. Full line of amateur supplies. Beet ama teur finishing In the city. SAMUEL G. WALKER, *5 Peachtree St. 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?” DENTAL COLLEGE OPEN ALL SUMMER impressions Taken and Work delivered Same Day. This Is s Dental School where Dentists at nets of axpsvi- aecs sons to Isara the lataet things la Crown and Bids* 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- whara. Goa. Air sc Local Injection administered for tho PAINLESS EXTRACTION OF TEETH 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 AT 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. You Are Accessible % To the world if you are a Bell Telephone subscriber. Listings for next Directory Close JULY 25, If you wish to becomea subscriber or change your listing or take a different class of ser vice now is the time to act. q Reasonable Rates. Call Contract Dept., M. 1300 BELL 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, You May Be One and Don’t Know It Why Not Try Your Hand? We will Give to the One Writing the Best Ad About this Label FIVE DOLLARS IN GOLD This contest will be open for two weeks, beginning July 2, and ending July 14. No professional ad writer or member of Atlanta Typographical Union will be permitted to compete. Ads to be written for space of 5 inches across 2 columns. For any infor mation CALL OR WRITE ATLANTA TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, P. 0. BOX 266 Huppoerd to be S.000 years old, the natu ral mummy of * miser In excellent preeer- trstlon. which wnn mummified by the cop- per oxide In a Chilian mine. 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