The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03
DIV q. B, CHESTER CONCLUDES
SERIES OF SERMONS ON
EVILS IN THE CITY.
Smoke Sunday Night on Home and
the Sanctity of the Marriage
Vows. The Social Evil
Arraigned.

Arraigned.
Rev. 0. B. Chester concluded his
series of sermons on the three chan
raIs of sin at the Methodist church
Sunday night, when he preached to
? large congregation from the text
"There was a marriage and
Jesus to the marriage. john
2:1-2.
There is no word in our language,
said the minister, more tender than
home. Ask some men the definition
Of a tear and they will say: ct is
drop of saline fluid secreted by
the lachrymal gland, and diffused
between the eye and eyelids." That
sounds exact and scientific, but the
definition is too harrow. What of
the heartaches and sorrows back of
the tear? So some peoples defni-
lion of the word Home" is made
ouate. The word is so closely united
with the sacred association of love,
sweetheart, wife, mother, sister,
father and brother that the union
cannot be broken save by that which
contains the essence of hell.
The Beauty of Love.
There is nothing more beautiful
than love between the sexes. 1t has
been the inspiration of dramatic art,
and much that is best in literature.
1t develops the noblest and best in
people When people love they come
into a new life When in the dawn
of history God created them male
and female and declared that a
man shall leave father and moth
er and cleave unto his wife, and
they shall be one flesh" He was deal
ing with this matter-love between
the sexes. 1t is clear that easy di-
yorces and a plurality of wives per
mitted a lax relation between them in
Moses time. Why? We can only
say that sin and depravity have, from
the first. attacked and degraded
these relations.
Jesus gave more specific directions
concerning marriage than any other
institution. A few things He makes
= perfectly clear. 1t belongs to this
world.
In heaven they do not give in mar
j riage. 1t is a relation between one
4 man and one woman. They twain
shall be one flesh" He said one
flesh, not one spirit, thereby blast
ing all this idea of affinity and spirit
ual marriages. 1t is binding until
death. Men are forbidden to put
asunder what God hath joined to-
getheT.
A Crime to Be Divorced.
Mathew 1879 shows it is crime
1 TO be divorced except for adultery or
Z to marry one who has been divorced
on any other grounds. The sin OF
ntdelity breaks the marriage with
out the aid of a law court.
Marriage is the foundation of the
home and family. Jesus bases much
s. OF His teaching concerning the King
dom of Heaven on this idea of family
and home. The story of the prodi-
gal son is built upon it. 1t is the
81 foundation upon which we stand to
pray, for we are to pray to Our
rather When He spoke of Heaven
he said In my Fathers house" He
declares the relation between hus-
oand and wife signifies the relation
between Christ and the church.
HOW holy then is that love which
means home, wife and mother!
nome is the very house of God, and
Oue gate of Heaven. 1t stands for
purity, honor, prayer, faith, holiness.
now safe a shelter We naturally
90 irom home to Heaven.
The House of the Strange Woman.
The house of the strange woman,
we learn in Proverbs, is the opposite
So 70 and enemy of the home in every
respect. 1t stands not for love, but
uiabolical perversion of love. 1t
stands for nothing pure, but for all
mat is impure, unholy, dishonest
= Prov. 2:18. Her house inclineth I'M
70 death, and her paths unto the
Gead. Prov. 7:27. Her house is
.le way to hell, going down to the
Cnambers of death" Prov. 9:18.
Inc dead are there, and her guests
are IN the depths of hell" How rap
uy her house leads to death and
1eu is seen by these figures: There
81 are 100000 inmates of such houses
III the United States. Sixty thousand
81 them die each year; five thousand
Ue each month. The average life
VI women in these places is only five
Years, Nearly all of them go from
Inese houses to hell. How signifi-
can't the words "Her feet go down