The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-11
FOR GREATER SOCIAL PURITY

denS in town, ana III one puDllC ouliu
ing men recently gambled all night;
that whiskey is being sold in many
places: that the social sin is preVa-
lent and open-faced enough to rival
Decatur street.
This state of affairs led to the or
ganization of "The Business Mems
Christian and Moral League" EV-
erv clean man who is concerned for
Dawson's moral welfare should join
it. 1t is a band Of earnest men whose
hearts are set on making this a
clean town Their purpose is not to
punish, but to save.
InfideIity and Sensuality.
Atheism if not immoral is UNI
moral. mo God" equals mo NOR
ais The bible says an atheist is a
! fool, and states further that the
trouble is in his heart. Observation
| has almost established it as law
that the seat of infidelity is SEN
suality. To profess infidelity is al
most equivalent to confessing a life
| of sensuality. Such a heart makes
faith impossible until the sin is re-
moved. The people to whom Jesus
| was speaking III LHc I0AC p0AAO'CN
in God; they did not believe in
Christ. They asked, What is it GOD
wants us to do?' Jesus told them in
the text, What God wants you to
do is to believe on Me whom He hath
sent
Accept Gods Plan of Saving World
Christianity is His plan. 1t i'm
plies the need of a Savior. Law does
not save. The laws of our land, un-
less administered in the wisdom and
spirit of the gospel, will damn often
er than save. But for the gospel S
| influence mObs, with no sense or re-
sponsibility, would tear the 1udlclal
robes from our courts and trample
| legislative enactments under their
! feet rendering law helpless. CHRIS
| tianity, Gods plan of saving a world,
demands that law be enforced, ana
| enforced in the spirit of the gospel,
at the same time making it possible
/ to enforce 1t. But what Dawson
needs is a Savior.
Accept Christ as the Savior Needed.
They wanted a sign or some
proof that He was the Savior. We
|
saving which has been done He did.
There has been much done. Great
gigantic curses which bound the
world with the powers OF darkness
have been driven from the earth.
| The world is a paradise compared
to what it was when He came. 1hefe
are thousands of homes fragrant
with the fragrance of heaven when
would be Ubiquitous hells but Tor
| Christ There are hearts which were
nutrid pits, but have become sweet
| sanctuaries wherein the angel OF res
directed manhood and revived nope
sings of the power of Christ to save
A thirsty traveller once asked an
old man in a town in Scotland
| why cannot a gentleman get glass
of whiskey here on Sunday? The
old man replied Sir. it is because
a man named John Wesley passed
through here a hundred years ago
Wesley preached Christ, the Savior
the town needed.
Skulking in Alleys to Buy Whiskey
Why is it that men today are
skulking in alleys, creeping IN be
hind newly erected partitions anC
sinking around corners like hunted
animals to buy drink OF Whlskey
Why is it that more fuss is made
now over the sale of quart OF the
death dealing and virtue destroying
fluid than was recently made Over
a whole river of it flowing, with YOU
approval, through town? 1t is be
cause Christ the needed Savior Il
here, believed on and wOrshipped
why do some think there is more
immortality here than before? Be
cause the mask has been torn away
the coffin lid has been removed, an(
the putrifaction once unheeded i:
now giving offense. The moral deatf
has been there all the time, and nov
, the desire for its removal has &C
! centuated the situation.
? In our desire to save the toWr
do not forget your own persona
need of the Savior, What is it Gol
y. wants you to do? First of all &C
cept Christ yourself. You too, vii
: be immoral unless You do. You can
. live a good pure life without per
: sonal acceptance of Him. You cal
never get to heaven without it. Were
YOU there on any other terms yol
= would be in heaven without a sons
. and without a Savior If you &C
cept Him as your personal Savior
you can live life here in this sin
$ full world as white and stainless al
: a lilly.
? We can never do much to save
. the town until we do this one thing
A holy life will do more to purif!
/ the moral atmosphere than all pro
: tests.
Why Boys Are Gambling.
The gambling curse now blightint
> young boys is doubtless a result o
you men gambling in cotton futures
and women playing for prizes. The,
!" have caught their parents spirits.
If you people had been as loya
!. to the church as you were to tn
g prohibition campaign, or had stoot
{ by the church until this present tim
+ as you did during our great revival
q the things now shaming US could no
q live in the pure atmosphere of on