The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-07-25
REV CHEsrER's SERMON.
Some Extracts from His Discourse on
Sunday Night.

Rev. O. B. Chester preached to an
appreciative congregation at the
Methodist church Sunday night from
the text "Neitber Give Place to the
Devil" Eph. APT. Following are
some extracts from the sermon:
1--WE know there is devil, for we
see his tracks. You don't have to
give him place or opportunity, but il
You do. he will make the most of it.
You give him an opportunity IN
your own life by allowing anger to
abide.
"Satan generally enters through
the mind. AS man thinketh so is
he Think right and live right,
think wrong aud live wrong ms is
the psychology of SIM"
ga book or picture which suggests
an evil thought gives satan an oppor-
tunity. That is why dancing and the
aters are to be condemned. .
You hope to win the fight against
satan, but it is exceedingly foolish to
thus give him the advantage.
Home influence ought ever to be
safe. Caesar contended successfully
with his foes until he saw the arm OF
his friend. Brutus. raised against him;
then with cry of despair ne gave up.
SO can a man fight legiOns OF devils
on every street corner, and come on
victorious, if satan is kept out OF his
home; but when home is against him,
like Caesar, we'll may he Weld.
parents give satan place IN their
homes, and an opportunity to work
havoc with their children, by admit
ting bad books and suggestive pic
lures, while they exclude family pray
err. Thus do parents invite satan to
damn their children"
Home influence ought to keep the
bows off the streets at night. TO al
low them on the streets is to give satan
an opportunity. Then and there are
their footsteps first turned towards
dens of vice. If satan gets in his
dirty work they had as we'll go to
hell"
"Wise mothers ought to let their
children have parties in the afternoon
and not at night. y
"Satan is a slanderer. Home in
iuence should reach far enough that
our young people would so deport
themselves at country picnlcS as to
give him no opportunity to start the
vile tongue of Islander. 1t has been
started"
I'VE should give satan no place or
opportunity in our city. We do this
by licensing or permitting places of
iniquity. 1t would be immoral to per-
NIT cess. pool or large pig sty, even
if they paid a license, to poison the
bodies and cause the death of our
children. To permit some such insti-
buttons as we have is to laugh in every
mothers face, who is trying to raise
her boy to be pure and manly, and
breathe whitening hell-curse upon
the future Happiness of our daughters.
For a city or an individual to rent
property for such purpose is, for a
consideration, to invite satan to ruin
every soul he can"
Dawson is one of the best places,
morally and religiOusly, | ever saw;
but you have given satan an OppOrtu-
nifty, and like the priest and leyite you
have disregarded until there is an UNI
dercurrent of immortality as dark as
night and foul as hell. Recently you
have caught a few whiffs from that
polluted stream which almost took
your breath. Unless you take hold
of these things with hands as gentle as
the Samaritan's and hearts as firm as
the love of God there will be sad
reaping. Your sons lives will be
married and their characters SCARED,
while your mothers conception of wO-
manlineSs and honor will appear as
foolish prudery and weak vagarieS to
your daughters
Young ladies, be wOmanly. A real
mans reverence for a wOmanly woman
is almost religious. He would very
nearly let his arm come off before he
would allow a slight remark about
her. AT the same time q mans con
tempt for silly, giggling, light.
headed creature is too great to men.
ton. The man who would desire tC
make her his wife is the scrt of mar
who would soon like to get rid of her.
Young men, be manly. Treat ev'
cry other boys sister, in thought anC
word, just as you would have hin
treat your sister. That satan may
have no opportunity to accomplish
any of his foul work in your live;
give your hearts unreservedly tc
Christ"
Mr.. Cheste" announced that he
would preach on family religion next
Sunday morning. Sunday night he
will probably deliver the last of the
series on Evils in Dawson.