The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20
GREAT SERVICE
FOR men
Mr.. GATES breaches ON THE
THREE GREAT EVILS, AND HIS
HEARERS PLEDGE THEM
SELVES TO FREE CO.
LUMBlA.

Sunday was a great day for Column
bia, spiritually and morally. A deep
religious interest has been aroused by
the union services and all over the
town the people are turning to God.
There were fifty conversions Sunday
and there have been several hundred
during the meeting, resulting in more
than one hundred additions to the
churches. Large congregations were
out Sunday morning at the various
churches and the people were deeply
interested in all the services. In fact
the union services have resulted in
| great good from every standpoint.
There has been a moral awakening
and public sentiment has been aroused
as never before in Columbia. The peo-
pie have been drawn closer together,
! the churches have been more closely
united and all are working for a COM
mon good-for the salvation of Co
llumbia, for the moral and spiritual up
lifting of the community. All are unit
ed in the fight against sin and the fight
for high christian citizenship.
A splendid audience greeted Mr..
Gates at the Tabernacle Sunday after
noon. The sermon was to men only,
and it was manly appeal to manly
men. "The harvest is come; the sum-
mer is ended, and we are not yet saw
ed" was the chief text, and in connec-
ton Mr.. Gates used the supplemental
text, BE not deceived. God is not mock
ed; whatsoever a man soeth, that shall
he also reap" The sermon which fol
lowed was strikingly fine. Mr.. Gates
said that the common saying that
boys must SOW their wild oats, was one
Iof the DEVILS lies which led thousands
upon thousands Of young men to
HELL. That there was no occasion and
no reason why young man should
SOW his wild OATS" and no man could
advance any sound reason therefor.
That if it was true, if there was any
necessity for moral wickedness in
young men, we had Gods word for it
that whatsoever a man sows, that
shall he also reap. If he sows gamb-
ling, lust and drunkenness, he shall
not only reap the crop of the seeds Of
gambling, lust and drunkenness, but
his children and children's children
shall also participate in the harvest.
He drew vivid picture Of the poor
Idrunkard on his road of degradation
to damnation. He pictured the boy
led downward by the influence of the
bar room First he acquired the ap-
petite for liquor by social drinkirg-an
appetite that grew stronger end strong
er with the passing months till it had
sapped all will power and lowered the
moral and physical strength Of the
young man. Perhaps he dragged along
to maturer manhood without landing
In Jail or the penitentiary. Perhaps
his sprees and degradation simply
bowed in sorrow some fathers heart
IOI CdIIlSu ~ Alt SlelNC ooiiV hNoi
broken mother Perhaps he lived to
win the heart of some pure girl, some
girl imbued with the high but fatal
ideal that she could combat the pow
er obtained in the passing years by the
: demon rum She too must help to
reap the harvest day by day. Unloved
CD, 1icfnO for tho
! lfaltering footsteps of avdrunken hus'
. band as he seeks her side after night
6 of debauch. She must so in want
. and taters and see her children go un
= cared for, ragged, neglected, perhaps
- hungry at times, with the example OF a
degraded father constantly before
it. These children must help to rear
the harvest in the years to come. II
= you SOW drunkenness, you must real
drunkenness The appetite for liquor
will be bred in the children, and the
chances are that the example OF the
>. father will be repeated in the lives o.
e the children.
He told of the baneful effects o.
q gambling; of its influence on the NOR
al and physical man and its distress
. ing influeno On the home. He gave
examples of bright, promising yount
7 men led astray by the gambling ia
| BILE, and paying the penalty in thu
| penitentiary. How gambling harden
! ed the heart and dulled the moral sen
sibilities and untitled a man to an eX
| tent for general business life. He SAT-
the effect on the man himself was no
the only penalty. That the famil,
must frequently suffer the necessitie
/ or the comforts which were their du
and which were thrown across tn
I gambling table That they were FIRE