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THE ATLANTA GEOHG1A-N.
BATL’UUAf. J L LA is.
THE UNFORGIVENESS OF SINS
By DR. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
reived;-God !» not awbdi
soerer it mini so Teeth that ahall
reap.”—Oalatlana VI: 7.
i(i bellevb In the forgtvsnsos of
I elns." Thls^lsan article ofthe
* creed I fully receive and fully be
Have: moreover,'I greatly rejoice In It
I can call this glorious doctrine aa
Charles H. Spurgeon called It "The
first note of my song."
I believe In the doctrine—first, be
cause the word of God declares It In
the Old Testament It la 'the principal
proclamation of the prophets. In the
New Testament It Is the pith of the
message of Jeans, “the son of man hath
power on earth to forgive sins;" and
it was the staple of apostolic preach
ing. Second, because we have the
u ltnees of thousands whose lives and
characters sustain their witness that
they have experienced the Grace of
G-id In the pardon of sine. Third, be
cause we have 'ourselves realised by
personal experience that Ood for
Christ sake hath forgiven our sins, not
onco for all but as often till the present
have as we have sought forgtvness.
This Is 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-
forglveness of slnsT" 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
qf the sinner.
Lost Innocence.
- The forgiveness of sins does, not re
store lost Innocence. If guilt Is the
■date of one who baa sinned, then the
opposite of guilt'Is Innocence or the
state of one who has not sinned. Manl-
fertly for one who bas been guilty of
hIii Innocence Is Impossible. Sin has
then one pain beyond the reach of for
giveness, one penalty that can naver
he remitted. We have entered Into
one Incurable sorrow, the sorrow of
having sinned against God. Innooence
is gone and gone forever. The story
of the prodigal aon, so.beautiful and
happy In Ita revelation of the Father's
forgiveness, has at least one misery
In It. There was the blot on the family
escutcheon, the akeleton In the family
closet, the misery of the fact that the
prodigal had gone wrong.
I do not know a more tqelancholy
fact than thla fact, that there Is no
way In reden “ '
ef Innocence.
Such Is the pathos of the old men's
song—
"Backward, turn backward, O time. In
thy flight;
Make me s child again. Just for to
night"
"A child again!” Alas, how utterly
Impoeelble. 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" T Did He mean to mock
them with an Impossible condition? Or
does He mean that conversion throws
open the gate for the return to Inno
cence?
Does not Paul also speak of the re-
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 ths sinner to Inno-
cency. In the very-nature of the cose
not even the grace of God can anni
hilate facts. Grace can and does moke
us Innocent of being guilty now, but
never clear of having lost something
to sin that Is irrecoverable. As the
prodigal eon lost something In the far
country hie gracloA Father could not
replace, so we hove every one to suffer
Borrow and the pain of "a blot on
... escutcheon," though we are safe
at home In our Father’s bouse.
If I were trying to explain the ever
throbbing note of pain In humanity
which le discernible over the face of
the whole creation I would eay that
this was ths explanation. Ths 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 pain, but they rather Intensify and
awaken the great grief of mankind to
the pathos of sin which has left this
shadow on the aoula of men. Two of
our great English poets have voiced
the world's experience with kin. One
of them saw a raven sitting Just above
his chamber door, uttering the cease
less threnody, “Never mors! Never
more!" Edgar Allan Poe, with his
own deep personal sorrow over a lost
manhood, brings the world of men
face to face with Ita spectral Innocence
which has gone forever.
The other poet aat by the sea and
heard the waves breaklhg on the rocks,
rolling out and aver returning. Tenny
son Interpret* >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 la
dead
Will never come back to me.”
Forglvenese brings a rich store of
blessing. Forglvensss, 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, th6u forglvest, but with all for
giving
Can'st not restore min* innocence
again.
Make Thou, Oh, Christ, a dying of my
living,
Pure from the ala but nevar from
the pain."
The Untouched Remainder.
J. Forgiveness does not remit the
material consequences of sin In this
life.
Mark carefully those 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 consequencas, the physi
cal, social and moral consequence's of
sin forgiveness dosa not Interrupt.
"Whatsoever a man soweth that shall
9 also reap." Invariably that law Is
i force. It Is In force for the for
given sinner as truly as for the un-
Mvm.
Here Is a man and .ore are proba
bly some such here today who, through
elns long ago committed, Is burdened
with physical 'aliments, 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 hls
sins are upon him. That man knows
that what I say Is true. Forgiveness
OR. JOHN E. WHITE.
does not remit the physical conse
quences of hls sin.
In that most eminent book on psy
chology by Professor James there oc
curs this passage; “The drunken Rip
Van Winkle excuses himself for every
freeh dereliction by saying; ‘I won’t
count this time.’ Well, he may not
count It and a kind Heaven me/ not
count It, but It Is being counted none
the less. Down among hls nerve cells
and fiber* 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 scentifle literalness,
wiped out The only objection to be
If you sow to the flesh ye shall of the
flesh reap corruption.”
“The moving finger 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 I* another man; hla 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. Hls family suffers
In the consequences of hls sin. Hls
wife, poverty and a broken life; hi*
children, disease and stunted growth.
Now, this man has seen the evil of
hls life, has repented, hss been par
doned of God, pardoned of men, has
gotten all there la to get from the for
giveness of sins. But the consequences
abide In tbs lives of others. Forgive
ness doe* not heal that woman's hurt
Ufa nor cure ths stunted or diseased
body, and mind of tbat poor, belpleaa.
Innocent child.
Take another case. A man ha* done
what Is possibly the greatest sin. He
has set In motion evil Influences, has
forth noxious seeds of thought or
blighted, by the Influence of hls
thing, the young men who came
hln hls 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! hls forgiveness does not
remit the consequences of hls sins.
Now, someone baa probably said:
■But is tbat always true? • Does not
God cure sometimes these conse
quences?*' And to that I should eay:
"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 ths remission
of these physical consequences, and If
lveness of sins In one instance car-
wlth 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 hls sin
was writ large In Israel’s history, and
in that of hls offspring.
Plaoing ths Blame.
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
heaB of science. But does It belong sl
ither there? I have brought -Into
l prominence certain irremediable
'penaltK-a of sin and for thla vary reason
that the pulpit shares with science the
responsibility for the slight emphi
In our time on the dreadful nature of
sin.
I want you to see thnt sin 1b mallg
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
unconsdduely 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 wld* and far have the feeling that
they can by a short and simple course
of action with no great difficulty get
out of the storm they have raised. No
one knows how many, but I have no
doubt there are millions outside the
church In the ranks of the unsaved
mosses 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 tor such
a reflection. "Oh, well, If forgiveness
will do all that the preachers ssy 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 Is true, I declare to
you It Is awful for men to get such on
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 llq. How are so many sinful and 1
sln-InduIglng Christians to be account
ed for? If they ore not sinning that
grace may abound they are sinning
under the consolation that grace does
abound. It ha* been taught them with
no Inflection of emphasis on the safe
guarding truth. They sin expecting to
pray about it later. In the postponed
enltence they aim to make a clean
remit and thrust It all on Christ. It Is
well for every man who hears me to
know and know well, tbat even though
hls trivial repentance should secure
the expected absolution that the con
sequences'of sin are not so easily dis
posed of.
81ns Chsngtd to Crosses.
I have lifted these truths Into promi
nence in order that, I might say two
other things that are great and tender.
trulhs. 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 alnner. By for
giveness they are changed from pun
ishment Into crosses. I have not laid
at all that these abiding consequences
of sin upon the Christian's life are hla
punishments. No, they are not. They
become hls cross and every one must
bear hls cross, Paul's thorn In ths
flesh w as something brought over from
hls 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 Is sufficient for thee." Take
each of the Illustrations I have used—
the diseased Christian, the mutilated
family, file 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 etunted child or the reapers
of the harvest of evil Influences, pass
ing and repassing 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 wer 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 mutt
!i. ip i twin to rlH<. again.
Finally, may I bring before you this
tender grnclous message from all the
dark background I have raised?
It Is this suffering sinner, forgiven
but suffering etlll the wounds or sin
and the scars, who gots closest to the
very heart of the Father God. Where
God cannot help us he loves us the
mows. 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 hls rebellion and per
versity, but the consequences many of
them remained Impossible to be re
moved. So he loved him freely and
moat 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. E. CHURCH
T HE failure to recognise God at
work. In His Immeasurable plan
tation, has been dua to falsa no
tions concerning the so-called laws of
nature. These, like the overseers ths
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 tha
overseer* off the ground and to take
hold-of matter*'direct After a few
extraordinary performances, sufficient
ly amazing \d arouse‘th— most vivid
sense of hls presenoe, he.would call
back hla agents-and retire again to
dome place of rest III some such
fashion God. tvns supposed to run Hls
kerb] When He was not directly
present performing wonders, the laws
of nature, second causes, and other
subordinate agencies hgd matters In
charge. Now ths laws of nature, os
active agents .for doing things In the
absenco bf God; have about had their
clay, a deeper Insight Into the relation
of God to Hlt world lhow* that He
never needed them and never used
them. 1 . ■ , ’
"Among so many, can H* care?
Can special love be everywhere?
From the great spaces, vague and dim.
May one small household gather Him?
1 naked: my soul bethought of this;
In Just that very place of Hls
Where- He hath put and keepeth you,
God hath no other thing to do,”
By the very constitution of our minds
we ore • 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
it hat 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 a* having a cause has
doubtless hod something to do with,
the general notion that tha 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 aa thay did. The overscan were
so much In evidence that the workers
on the plantation forgot that there was
any maater at all, and even If there was
he kept at, such a distance from the
field that he did not count for much.
,Tekjng It for granted that th* laws of
nature were causative agents, and See
ing their number constantly Increased
by the observations and experiment*
of students, It Is easy to understand
the feer felt by so many that science
was about to rule the one Ood out of
the cosmos, and aet up In III* place a
multitude of little gods, called laws.
But the laws of nature -are nelthatr
forces nor causes nor agents—they ore
the uniform habit* of the Almighty,
who holds everything In the grasp of
Hls will.
Here Is e 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 of progress from blossom to fruit,
but the** did not turn a flower Into a
red globe of delicious Juice. The peach
Is the Idea of sweetness Incarnate. To
ward such an exbresslon of Itself there
la not an atom In th* tree that does not
conspire with all th* other atoms In
It to mov*. The lines of least resist
ance mutt 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
peach. The plan In accordance with
which the tree grows Is definite, and
the Idee 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 arc 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 ntoms 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 bf David.
John Flake asks: "Once really ad
mit the conception of en ever-present
God, without whom not a sparrow falls
to th* ground, and It becomes self-
evident that the law of gravitation Is
but the expression of a particular mode
of divine action. And whet Ig true ot
one law Is true of all laws.”
II.
In a limited and human way, cause
may be represented a* the Influx of a
men’s mental volitions Into hls bodily
acts, and os we are able to study the
ocean In a drop of water, and the eun
In an electric spark, so, from this mi
nute bit of cause In man we may get
some Idea of It In Its unlimited sense.
Cause In God Is the outflow of Hls vo
litions In producing and guiding the
whole sum of thlngs/together with ev
ery particle of matter; or force In It.
"Bodies attract each other In propor
tion to their moss and Inversely a* the
squares of their distance.” This Is rail-
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 ono
another." Now when the sparrow falls
the earth rises.' What the sparrow
tacks 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 wilt of the great First Cause has
of pulling together the masse* 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 renson fallen In the false notion of
supposing that He delegates the func
tion of pulling the bodies together to
one of Hls agents, which In this In
stance we call the law of gravitation.
If God Is omniscient. If Hls eyes run
to end fro throughout the whole earth
every Instant, what use are we to sup
pose He has for so many little agents
to manage hls Interests. He certainly
did not delegate the function of mak
tng things at the start tp laws, because
this Would be equal to saying that
laws made all that Is, and God would
be ruled out altogether. Some might
suppose It hardly In keeping with the
majesty of the Infinite to regard Him
as concerning Himself about the small
detail* 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 •theso little laws to create
things. It le 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 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 Hls active agency at all. The
verbal devices to which writers have
resorted to sav* God from the labor in
volved In running Hls world direct are
remarkable. When we think, however,
of the supreme Being os Imminent in
the world not a* an idle onlooker, with
little law* doing Hls work, but os eter
nally active Himself, through the use
He makes of elements and forces, we
get a conception of Him, unspeakably
great, and besides very lull of comfort
to the religious soul. And this view of
the Almighty science has not only
mode 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 cothpels us
to accept os 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 efcrth, and by the
constant exercise of HIS will keeps
them created and moving perpetually
toward the consummation of Hls pur
pose.
Browning expresses It:
"All changes at Hls 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 ot the
atmosphere. Without stirring a step,
all the chemists alive might find enough
In a small bit of sir to engage their
attention for a generation. See flaming
suns and Innumerable blight 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. In 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 find ourselves
cast, if all the shot and shell ot the
elements are under the control of no
great Being, who Is using them to ex
press Hls will. Life Is a dream, an
organised delirium, spent amid scenery
made up of furiously active little let
ters, If no maater mind Is holding them
and using them to write some great
literature. Just think, or at Itast try
to think, that the particles of one of the
elements of water at the freezing point,
move, according to the chemists, at 79
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 0,000,000,000, end that
the average velocity Is something like
eighteen miles a minute. Remember
that In one cubic Inch of breath there
are estimated to be three hundred
qulnttlllons of particles, and every one
of them' Is under ths necessity of chang
ing Its direction in the neighborhood
of 0,900,000,000 times a second. Keep
In mind the thought that all these
atoms, In the language of, Sir John
Herechell, act like "manufactured arti
cles” That each onejs perfect after Its
kind. That there are about seventy
different kinds of them. That they
vary In size, shape, affinity and weight.
That all are 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 eagh maintains
the character with which It Started
Upon Us 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 ths
outer edges of the points or force cen
ters, which like so much movable type
are packed In perfect order around us,
can we escape the conclusion that they
are being used to spell out some mean
ing of unspeakable Import? Haydn gave
hls Immortal oratorio, “Creation,"
through a few notes of the musical
acale, and Raphael reproduced hls vis
ion of "The Transflguratlon" 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-
lees 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
souls to feel!
and eyes to see and
^GOSSIP OF:
STATESMEN AND POLITICIANS
The Smokers* Club made a victim of
Solicitor'Ennis, of the Rome circuit,
while he was paying a short visit to
tin- 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.
th- Jamestown Exposition, has been
extended a seat on the floor ot the
house.during hls stay In Atlanta. He
hne been a regular attendant for sev
eral days and will make an address
'before the general assembly Tuesday
at noon.
When the sturgeon fish bill by Mr.
Dunbar, of Richmond, wo* taken up
Just Received
A Complete Line of
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All the latest'Improvements.. Full
line of amateur oupplle*. Boat ama
teur finishing In the city.
SAMUEL G. WALKER.
85 Peachtree St.
Frldly, there was an Interesting dis
cussion of fish of different aorta. 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 hls
bill was passed and no more South
Carolina people will catch the sturgeon
out of th* Savannah river.
Messrs. Hardman and Holder, of
Jackson,, arc 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 appliance*
along. Thalr demonstrations before
the house attract much attention.
Speaker Slaton administered a pret
ty call down to Mr. Hardman, of Jack-
son, Friday, that caused a bit ot laugh
ter among the members of^he house
sitting near the speaker's desk.
The speaker had been trying for
some time to get better order In the
house, but the member* would not stop
talking. Finally Mr. Speaker said:
"Will the gentlemen In the house
please take their seats and cease from
audible conversation, so aa not to dis
turb the gentleman from Jackson?"
DENTAL COLLEGE OPEN ALL SUAIMER
impressions Taken and Work deuvened Same day.
Tbli la a Dental School when DmtiiU ofmn ofnpirl*
mm com to Marti tha latest thtajrs In Crown and Bride*
Work and Dental Operation*. No students allowed to
enter. Patients patronizing as will get ths adrantaga at
experience and skill at coat, which they could not get elsa-
where. Gas. Air or Local Injection administered for tha
PAINLESS EXTRACTION OF TEETH
Thu U e neeUr chartered Dsntol Coilse*. running 12
awatfesIntbsrsnr.andALerzreOnM. Bamembarth* place
ATLANTA POST GRADUATE DENTAL SCHOOL
DR. W. *. CONwAV, Maniocs.
2*4 floorSMntf-LntO' MIdloj.PuchtrM Street. ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Mr. Hardman auddenly stopped talk
ing.
Politics I* not mentioned on the floor
ot the house, but Just go In the smok
ing room If you want to hear a few
argument*. Hok* Smith and, Clark
Howell carry every county In the state
almost every day,, out In that little
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. Butts, one of the hunters of the
house, has Introduced a bill prohibiting
repeating and magazine ehotgunz In
hunting quail, dove* 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
Glynn Is getting back at him.
The bill to prohibit the manufacture
and sale of cigarettes In the state 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 bUL
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
In.
COL ADAMS' REMAINS
AT
Special to Th* 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 THE THEME
"Dr. Wllmer and HI* Immoral
Heaven” will be the subject of what
promise* 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, declared:
•If heaven could be gained In fifteen
minutes It would be an Immoral heav
en.” The utterance met with a round
of applause, and It is Dr. Broughton's I
purpose, he says, to dissect the mean- j
Ing of the sentenc* to the core. 1
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man cemetery with the ceremonies of
the Masonic fraternity, a crowd of 200
or L000 people attending.
Some time since. Colonel Adams left
hls home here to visit his brother In
Washington. In two days after hls ar.
rival there, he lay a corpse, the victim
of heart failure.
He leaves a widow In Bowman, also
a daughter, Miss Delrey, who Is widely
known as a Jlterary teaeher and church
worker; another daughter, Mrs. How
ard Arnold, of Bowman; the third Is
Mr*. Dr. B. C. Teasley, of Hartwell,
Ga.; the only aon, Eldo H. Adams, Is a
railroad man, of Chester, 8. C.
WAS JOE DORSETT
A SLEEP-WALKER?
That Jo* L. Dorsett, who fell, from
the Equitable building and eras killed
last Monday afternoon, was a somnam
bulist and walked through an open
window while asleep, I* the theory ad
vanced by N. K. Smith, of Acworth,
Go. In a letter to'The Georgian, Mr.
Smith states that he knew Dorsett
well and knew that he was given to
doing strange things while walking In
hls sleep.
Mr. Smith says that th/> suicide the
ory Is absurd and that Dorsett would
never have taken hls own life. He
pays a high tribute to the character ot
the young man.
PROMINENT FARMER
FALLS DEAD IN FIELD
ARE YOU AN AD WRITER ?
Special to The Georgian.
Covington, G«., July 14.—Robert W.
Childs, or Newborn district, on* of the
most prominent cltlsena of the county,
fell dead In hit field yesterday after
noon.
Mr. Childs left Newborn at 4 o’clock
seemingly In good health, and hla death
an hour later was a great shock to hls
relatives and acquaintances.
He leaves a wife and four children.
Mrs. J. J. Carter, Mr*. J. W. Pltte,
Miss Mae Childs and Mr. J. H. Childs,
all ot Newborn.
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FIVE DOLLARS IN GOLD
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ATLANTA TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, P. 0. BOX 266
to be 2.000 years old. the natu
ral msnimy of a miner In excellent preser-
-Web ws* mummified by the cop-
In • Chfljsn mine, I* to be sold
Stoke Perk, stoke Poxl«. Eeland. 1***^!
to come Into the market. It zhnoat »
closes the famn'is Stoge F"*”* _„tk°
yard of Grays "K>zy,"*snd osc* was u
borne of William l'cnn.
