The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-20
"sEYEALsoDoERs oFTHEwoRD."

"BEYEALsoD DOORS oFTHEWoRD.
There is a great revival going on IL
the hearts of the people of Columbia
a revival of the better part of our ma
lures There is more good than baG
in human nature Mans aspirations
are upward; his thoughts look up tc
God. The man who revels in sin fol-
the pure love of it, and when he stops
or is called to halt and think on ser.
ious things, does not respond to the
shapes is a curse to the world, and
that for the protection of our homes
the lives of men and women must be
purer; the man, we say, who does not
respond in his heart to sentiment
like this, is a moral pervert; a very
large majority of men, and nearly all
women, believe in religion, and good
morals, and want to lead clean lives;
and just to the extent that they fail to
do So just to that extent do they fail
to live up to their ideal, and to fulfill
the longings of their better natures
But where we as individuals and
where Society at large falls down is,
that we are mere hearers and not
doors of the word
AT the Sunday afternoon service at
the Tabernacle, Mr. Gates spoke to
men only, and discussed the sins COM
mon to men; and when he asked all
those VINO were in favor. and by their
word and vote and influence would
pledge themselves to help close the
doors of every saloon and bawdy house
in Columbia, to stand up, the audience
rose en- masse There were present
some four or five hundred men, from
all parts of the city, and from all the
vocations Of life; and when they stood
upon this proposition they spoke
the true sentiment of the manhood of
Columbia. But, how many of them,
or rather how few of them. are "doers
VI TIC WOlu, lie IleH Vi COluHlDld, 4.
who when their better natures are
aroused are opposed to the very pres
ence of the saloon and the bawdy
house in Columbia, could, any day that
they would, wipe these cess polls of
sin. disease disgrace and death out of
Columbia and the only reason that
hoy do Af
have not done so, is because
they do not fulfill the true
purpose and call of their bet
ter natures. They are hearers of
Che word, and the hearing of it thrills
ahem with the glory of mighty pur-
pose; but when it comes to the "show
down." when it comes to putting on /
the whole armor and going out to do i
battle against Evil and for the Right,
so many of them falter and fall out {
of the ranks of the real doors"
The social evil is a question the
Herald does not like to discuss through I
its columns, and rarely does. But 1t
seems to lis that this occasion calls 3
for it. Women do not Know much; :
some of them think they do, but they {
don't; more's the pity. If they knew $
and understood half of the degradation t
to them of mans sin against Society," d
they would HE themselves to nun b
merry. Women are so much purer than r
men that they cannot understand the
of mans trangression. If III
they did they would shun the impure O
man as they would the leper. h
Men know volumes more than a
know, but the average I
nan does not begin to under
stand he danger to himself-not 4
only of the sin to his soul but of Y
eprosy to his body,-or the evil would
1ot be what the doctors say it is, to-
wit, more common than any disease Y
and by far the most fatal and far y
in it's dreadful results. l8
You see a young man, stalwart and Z
strong, bright eyed, bouyant and am Y
,itious. His energy begins to fail y
him; the lustre of his eye is gone and
likewise his ambition; only he and his Y
ioctor knows what is the matter with y
him. Not a christian man but be- x
ieves, not an atheist doctor on earth
,ut knows, that the ''sins Of the father y
hail be visited upon the children unto
he third and fourth generation" "
There is no truer passage In holy writ, y