The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-02-17
.DAWSON'S SIN STREAM NO. I
REV. O. b. CHESTER PREACHED
ON EVILS OF INTEMPERANCE.
A Vivid Picture of DamnatiOn and
Destruction. Legislature Built
Dam and Then Cut Hole in Ii.

Destruction. Legislature Built
Dam and Then Cut Hole in Ii.
Rev. o. B. Chester preached the
first of his series of sermons on the
three channels of sin in Dawson at
the Methodist church Sunday night
before a large congregation.
His subject was Channel No ], )"
and the text was Hast thou not
procured this unto myself. '-Jer.
2:17.
After an exposition of the chapter
Mr. Chester said that Channel No
I was intemperance, Satan used
nothing more effectually in Old Tes-
lament times than drunkenness. By
it he damns men scientifically CAS-
a man thinkctF so is he" Alcohol
Immediately affects the brain and
controls ones thoughts. Satan
would experience difficulty in MAX
ing a chaste man an adulterer or an
honest man a thief, or a kind-heaTt-
ed man cruel. But by the use of
alcohol he gets control of their think
ing powers and easily turns whole
communities Of good men into vice
The Sin of Drunkenness.
If you will read between the lines
you will conclude that the sin of
drunkenness was back of all the
loathsome putridity of SodOm, whose
stencil, smelling to the skies, moved
God to burn it from the face of the
earth. Intemperance is Satan's right
arm of power in America and to
lend it aid or even to tolerate it is
TO kiss the DEVILS hand. God would
evangelize the world from America,
but Satan has diverted the great
stream of American dollars from
mission work to the liquor traffic
. This money has been kept at home,
and what has it done for us?
What Are Found ON the Banks.
Walk up the bank of this stream
and you will find it haunted with
ghosts of dead hopes and dead love;
5trewn with bones Of generations
and wrecks of homes; the yellow
eyed beast of hatred where love
should dwell; vultures of unhOly
lusts where purity should reign;
purifying corpses OF sin where the
white lilies of holiness should grow.
In this matter of intemperence the
powers of darkness have done their
worst. There is not one star to
llumine the night, one strain Of hope
to relieve the dull march of death,
one note of JOY to break the monOt-
ony of the wall of woe.
BY it the devil damns men scien-
5ifically, and medical science finds
itself unable to cope with diseases
Of which it lays the foundation. A
doctor with an extensive practice de-
elared that fOrty-nine out of every
fifty cases of the deadly Bright's dis
ease had been found among drinking
men. Young men are now making
heir future wives widows and their
children orphans by intemperance.
Drinking Men Immoral.
It makes good morals almost i'm
possible. Something like ninety-tive
Der cent. of the drinking men are
grossly immoral, and cannot be 9th
4rwise until they get rid of the de-
mon drink.
This business is Satan splitting on
e FOuT UlOIuGl > HdllIC, lAou eAAO
honor of your sweetheart curling
his lips in scorn of your marriage
VOWS, forging your wife's wedding
ling into a shackle of hell planting
he putridity of the pit in the heart
Of your son, drawing a brush dipped
n a wall of woe across your daugh-
er's prospects of future happiness,
while it bars the gates of Heaven
against the drunkard and fastens
aim to the doors of hell with cable
Of death.
Tell me | hate the bowl!
Hate is a feeble word.
loathe, abhor, my very soul,
With deep disgust is stirred
Whenever l see or hear or tell
OF the wark beverage OF hell.
Those lines were written by
7oung lady whose father was
lrunkard.
Nothing Left to Pray For.
It is a great sin to refuse to fgh
his evil. Some people whose reilg
on is so dainty that it reminds you
Of perfumed smelling salts Will say
Don't resist evil, but pray for IN
lrunkard." Let me say when pee
saloon is through with him there l
Nothing left to pray for.
What shall I say Of those Wn
would hinder in the fight agalns
vhiskey? Suppose men bande
themselves together in an effort [
hwart the doctors in their hgh
AGAINST consumption and yellow te
yer. You would say hell is too coo