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AINSWORTH WARNS WANTON WOMEN
ELOQUENT PASTOR MULBERRY STREET METHODIST CHURCH, MACON, LIFTS THE RED LANTERN OF DANGER CONCERNING SHAMEFUL
DRESSING OF FOOLISH GIRLS—PAINTED CHECKS AND IMMODIST APPAREL LEAD TO A HARVEST OF LUS .
OWN at Macon, Georgia the pulpit is not
afraid. While beer saloons are being
closed right and left as public nuisances,
that more insidious and repulsive evil, in-
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decent dress among women is being held up to
public indignation. Last Sunday night Dr. W. N.
Ainsworth, the eloquent and beloved pastor of his
toric Mulberry Street Methodist Church, sounded
a clarion note of warning to the wanton women
which ought to be heard and heeded all over the
nation. Dr. Ainsworth’s utterance is so timely and
powerful that we reproduce in full the Macon Tele
graph's report of the sermon and urge our readers
to pass it to every girl in every community who is
at all tainted with the disposition to abbreviate her
dress and shsw her person to the gaze of lustful
men. Yea, and to the utter disgust of every gen
tlemen who loves the modesty of true womanhood:
WOMEN IN APOSTOLIC TIMES
“I will, therefore, that the women adorn
themselves in modest apparel, with shame,
facedness and sobriety, not with braided hair
or gold or pearls or costly array, but (which
becometh women confessing godliness- with
good works.” —1 Tim., 2-9-10.
With this as his text, Dr. W. N. Ainsworth, pastor
of Mulberry Street Methodist church, lauded into
discussion of the “dress, manners and morals of
modern women” last night before a congregation
that filled his church to overflowing, many being
turned away for lack of room.
Dr. Ainsworth declared that women canbe seen
on the streets any day with dresses of such vulgar
display as to demand the interference of the police
in the interest of public morals, adding that if the
folly of womanhood is not stopped they will reap
a harvest of lust as bitter as wormwood. The same
immodesty, he said, is seen in the dances of the
day—the “turkey trot,” “bunny hug” and “kitchen
sink.”
Clothes Reflect Quality.
“Nothing which pertains to life and godliness is
beyond the purview of the Holy Scriptures,” said
Dr. Ainsworth. “The apostolic writings sweep the
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to sell and straightway burn them —
one. God and love must teach you.”
“If you are right with God you are neces
sarily right with your neighbor, your state
and yourself—otherwise, you are wrong with
everything. ’ ’
“Hear the text from the inspired word: ‘So
send I you;’ in otherwords, what Christ came
to this world to do we, being sent, must do.”
“I’ve lived long enough and traveled far
enough to know that to consume time to
preach anything other than the sa'vation of
souls is pure nonsense.”
“Recently I read a book entitled, ‘What
would Jesus have Done had He not Died?’ Im
mediately I wrote in the first fly-leaf: ‘There
would have been no Jesus, the Christ, had he
not died. It is by his death and shed blood
as the Son of God trat our sins are blotted
out.’ ”
“Soul winning is a matter of spirit and not
of machinery. Its truly a question of love and
not a question of method in any sense.”
“Brief outline of afternoon sermon: 1. Jesus
was sent by God; 2. Jesus was sent by God
with a specific purpose. 3. (in conclusion) So
are you (if you are a Christian.”)
Here are some gems from Dr. Broughton’s
night sermon on ‘‘The Transformtaion of
Peter.”
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF SEPT. 11
whole range of human behavior and assert the au
thority of God over the minutest regulations of hu
man life. Christians are exhorted to recognize the
sacredness of all they do, and to do all things, even
to eating and drinking, to the glory of God. It is
not surprising, therefore that the matter of woman’s
behavior —her manners and her dress —should re
ceive specific attention at the hands of Peter and
Paul. Dress, indeed, is not to be classed among
the minor things of life. It is in his necessity and
choice of dress that man is different’ated from th«s
lower animals. The inferior animals have no op
tion as regards their dress. Their covering is a yart
of them, and whether bright or drab, attractive or
forbidd’ng, they cannot change it. But man has
the choice of his own attire. His clothes reflect his
qualities and in return react upon and help to form
the character. This liberty, like every other, is
fraught with serious danger, and often becomes the
instigator of many a mad race after the follies of
fashion and pride.
Woman Becoming a Real Problem
“Just now this subject as it relates to womankind
is becoming one of serious importance. Indeed,
woman herself is becoming one of the problems, if
not one of the perils of the age. Emancipated by
the power of Christianity from the bondage and
degradation, in which paganism has ever held her,
Christian womanhood has come into a largeness of
liberty, which threatens to overthrow her proverbial
purity and her moral leadership of the race. Wo
man’s liberty is becoming license and the mis.
guided clamor for her rights has let loose destructive
forces that are sweeping wide and deep below the
surface of our social life. Several of the most om
inous peril s that threaten our civilization today are
wrapped up with false and foolish notions of wo
man’s liberty and rights. The hardest fought battle
for women has become her curse, if it entails upon
her an open field for equality of struggle with men
and robs her of her shrinking modesty which is
the crown jewel of her casket.
“This is the indictment of modern womanhood.
“All humanity throbs with suppressed good
ness. Peter was good and had in him elements
of greatness, but nobody knew it until he let
Christ into his life. Then, oh, what a change!”
“Don’t be discouraged about your bad char
acters here in Macon. I’ve come to you with
a complete cure for the vilest bum in town.
I personally cannot cure any man, but Jesus,
my Lord, can cure every man.”
‘‘Jerry McCauley and Sam Jones were rocks
like Peter, and Jesus polished them for a place
in his kingdom. Those men didn’t become
great by reason of taking some scientific cure,
but they became mighty through the blood
of Jesus the Christ.”
“I’m in the rock digging business —digging
up rough stones like Peter in order that they
may be polished by ray Master for His glory
and the betterment of the world.”
SAM JONES’ DAUGHTER LIKES IT.
Mrs. Annie Jones Pyron, of Cartersville, Ga.,
tbe “sunshiny” consecrated daughter of the
beloved Sam Jones, who has worked so faith
fully for the re-establishment of the Sam Jcnes
Tabernacle meetings, says: ‘‘The Golden
Age is the brightest, best paper that comes to
our home, tl brings us something refreshing
every week that no other paper brings. YVe
await its coming eagerly and read it with in
creasing delight.”
which he that runs may read, i. e.: Modern woman
hood is not mode s t as our mothers used to be. With
the larger liberty and freer intercourse of modern
life has come a decay of manners and a loss of
modesty. And this loss of modesty is nowhere
more manifest than in the dress of the hour. Dress,
while once designed to obscure the destructive fea
tures of the woman’s form, is now made to destroy
them and the Christian world has adopted the
hellish invention of Paris’ underworld to tantalize
the barest passions of mankind. Women can be
seen on the streets now any day with dresses of
such vulgar display as demand the interference of
the police in the interest of public morals.
Ainsworth Seriously Embarrassed.
“Recently a young woman of good family and
noble name accosted me in a public place and sub
jected me to an embarassment of the mo s t serious
sort. I knew her, but her skimpy dress and painted
cheeks and dilated eyes gave her the marks of a
harlot and I trembled for my good name among
passersby who might not know. There are young
men gathering by the score at prominent corners
to watch the women board the cars and some of the
elcherous artists could drawn the picture of the half
clad female throng.
day. “The same immodesty is seen in the dances
of the day. The “turkey trot,” and “bunny hug” and
“kitchen sink” are the extreme of suggestion and
indecency. Recently a stranger went to a local
club and witnessed the midnight orgy from the ve
randa, and remarking to hi s companion, ‘if these
are the best people in the city, I pity the worst/
turned away in disgust.
Reap What You Sow.
“Hear me, people of Macon, if this folly of our
womanhood is not stopped, we will reap a harvest
of lust that in the end will be bitter as wormwood.
It is time for the fathers and mothers, as well as
these thoughtless followers of fashion, to wake up
and set ourselves to bring back the modesty of our
womanhood, the glory of Christianity and the pride
of the s outh.”
READS IT “CLEAN THROUGH.”
“I have this morning read The Golden Age.
I always commence on the first page and read
it—no skipping, clean through. Enjoy it? Do
you suppose I would read it through every
week, and some of it twice, if I did not enjoy
it? I am sure I wouldnn’t. The Golden Age
is superb. GEO. W. STEVENS.
Roanoke, Ala.
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