The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-03-16

cSuS preaching tue &OSpCl Oh IH& /
and of course denounced all |
idol worship. People began to
throw away their idols. Demetrius
came to be much disturbed because
his business interests were at stake.
So he set to work to save his busi-
mes regardless of the principle in
volved. There are men in our city
who would not stoop to practice
many things that are tolerated here,
but who have no scruples about max
ing capital out of the practices OF
others. Some will not sell liquor
over the bar, but they will rent their
buildings to others for saloons. There
are those who will not run gamb-
ling den, but who will tolerate the
ner and has lots of money to spend
There are those who will not sell
their virtue, but who will say moth
ing against its sale by others so long
as that practice brings dollars and
cents into the community. There
are those who see only present and
material profit Four men were
crossing the river when the boat was
capsized and all were thrown into
the water. A rescue party put Oft to
their aid. A man standing on the
bank became very much excited and
shouted ''Save the red-headed mani
Save that red-headed mani" Ali of
course supposed that the red-headed
man was a relative or at least a dear
friend of the one who was SO frantic.
When the rescue Of all was completed
the man on the bank was asked the
reason for his special interest in the
red-headed man. He replied: "He
owes me one dollar and half" Yes.
the same spirit here manifested IS
crying out among US: Don't let this
movement be successful, it will ruin
the town. We depend upon the sale of
indulgences for our resources. The
bad element holds the balance Of
power, il we court its favor it will
make political capital. Besides it IS
money in our pockets to tolerate
these evils SO save that red-headed
man
close with this appeal: do your
duty. Do your duty regardless of
the world Do your duty even if it
hurts. Stand for law and order
Synopsis of sermon preached last
Sunday evening by Rev VIM. A Bor-
um, Pastor First Baptist Church.
Mr.. Borum read for his Scripture
lesson Isaiah 5:8-25, and announced
for his theme, "Greenville's Need of
| Enforcement of Law, and How it
May be Attained" He began his dis
course as follows: There came to
| my study this week young man
who said he had been told that I had
declared that he and a friend of his
were running a crap dive in Green
vile. Being assured that had made
! no such assertion, as / had never
heard of him before, he replied, 4
have lived a wicked and dissipated
life for the past ten years; I have
| gambled, drank whiskcy, and been
/ guilty of every other immortality; but
FIVE months ago on my 24th birthday,
I came to my senses and saw the
wreck / had made of my young life.
| promised myself and the Almighty
that I would never drink another
drop of liquor, nor throw another
card or dice; and / have kept my
word He related many sad exper-
fences of life; told how he had griev-
ed his parents, and trampled every
effort they made to redeem him, un
der his feet, and had lived the life of
a vagabond His last words to me
gospel will succeed in rescuing the
many young men Of Greenville who
are travelling the road / was on ten
years before l realized the beastly
life was living"
Now think of it. This life was
wrecked in Greenville between the
ages of IA and "a. Do the mothers
and fathers of this city realize that
the non-enforcement of law as we
have it now, means the support of a
school of vice in which DOZENS, if not
scores of our boys and young men
are being educated and from which
they will eventually graduate to break
some mothers hearts. and bring their
old fathers gray hairs with sorrow
to their graves?
"a mother told me recently of her
boys Reformation after leaving
Greenville. But, she added, he is
working for a much smaller salary
than he could command here at
home He says he can not stay in
Greenville and live the moral life
that he wants to. The temptations
are SO alluring and the pressure to
yield is so strong. that, having made
friends in that dawnward path of life,
he can not resist them. He knows