The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-03-07

DIR. J. B. Hawthorne, pastor OF the
First Baptist church, of Atlanta, Gre
ated agreat sensation by sermon,
which he announced under the head Of
"Throwing stones from glass windows;
the inconsistent attitude Of society to-
ward such men as Lewis Redwine and
Harry Hill"
The church was packed to its utmost,
and the sermon has been widely discuss
ed. Launching into society, the
Doctor said, 81 am not mad, but
speak the words of soberness and
truth, when 1 say that many Of our
homes are schools of vice and crime.
The influences which fill them and sur
round them train the children to fal,
conceptions of life and fill their magma
ton wiCh pictures that beget longing
for unlawful Qualifications.
CAN'T AFFORD TO sPURN HIM.
considering these facts, when we
look upon a young man convicted of
embezzlement or forgery, and about to
be sent to felon's prison, we cannot
afford to spurn him and anathemize
him, because his crime is simply the
product of the corrupting influences
which pervades the whole commercial
world, and for which every one Of us in
some degree responsible. Tried by
Gods standard of honesty, which re-
CARDS what is in mans heart, as well as
what is in his life, that young man is not
more guilty than thousands who stand
high commercially and socially Let
him among you who never planned any
thing crooked in his own business, or
winked at crookedness in others, and
who is in no way responsible for the
spirit of dishonesty in the world Of
trade-let him step for ward and hurl
the first anathema at the young man
who stands before the tribunal of human
justice convicted of the crime.
UNFINISHED THIEVES.
II stand aghast today, not as l look
upon criminal like that, but as look
upon the great army of colossal thi ewes,
who walk abroad unwhipped of justice,
and whose example and influence have
led millions of people to think dishon-
esty is disreputable and despisable only
when it is punished by the state. 1t is
the conduct of these imperial rogues
that is Speeding and Strengthening the
doctrine of the anarchists that all prop |
erty is theft; and that is fastening a
PevolutiopIwh will make the bloo9l st
picture in the book of time.
THE RUIN OF WOMEN.
Look, too,'' exclaimed the doctor,
cat the victims of the polished deviltIies |
of men who still move in what are called |
the highest society circles The world
is dotted all over with the graves of de-
ceived women-women who were robbed |
of their virtue and deserted, and who,
in the madness of their dispair, SOU ht |
refuge in the arms of death. The de-
stroyers of these women are murderers,
and yet they are neither punished by |
the state nor ostracised by those who
claim to be the very cream of our social |
life.
off Christ were upon the earth today
lie would stand up in these society cir
cles, where Partisan ideas, sentiments
and fashions prevail, and pointing to
some house of shame, he would say, 'et
him who is without shame cast the first
stone atit.'
THE FIGHT OK THE HOME.
at humiliates me to know that there
are men and women of our community
who are too clean and prudish to couute-
nance the erection of home for the re-
formation of barlots, but whose sepsi-
bilities are not at all disturbed by the
sentiments and customs which promote
the growth Of harIotry.
eff all the thieves were put into the
changing tomorrow it'would make gaps
in the business world too fearful to con-
template. 1t would wipe out Wall
street. 1t would annihilate the grain
rings, the whisky rings and meat rings
It would destroy the manufactures and
shut up two-thiros of the brokerage Of
fees; it would suspend half of the wa
ter works, cancel a majority of the
street paving contracts and utterly ex-
terminate the plumbing business. 1t
would thin the ranks OF legal and medi-
cal fraternities, take thousands of in
surance agents from the field, shut the
doors of real estate offices, and so reduce