The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-06
ANOTHER SERMON FROM R|VES|
INCIDENTALLY PAYS RESPECTS
TO SOME GRAND JURORS.
Quotes Scripture, and Argues Point
edly for the Better Enforcement
of Laws in Georgia.

Ol DdWS III OeOF&Ad.
Editor Dawson News: Deuteron-
omy, Samuel, Isaiah and Romans all
contain some parts of my text, and
quotations from elsewhere may be
made: Hear, o Israel, the Lord
thy God is one Lord"-that is for the
nigh and low, the learned and the
unlearned. Therefore, thou shalt
fear the Lord thy God all the days
of thy life; thou shalt obey His laws;
thou shalt bind them upon thy hand;
they shall be as frontlets between
thine eyes; thou shalt write them
upon the doors of thy house, and
upon the gates of thy town; thou
shalt teach them to thy children
when thou riseth up and when thou
sittest down, when thou goest out
and when thou contest in, that they
may know and observe all this law,
which l command thee this day. "
''Precept must be upon preeept-
precept upon precept-line upon line
line upon line-here a little and
there little" ''He that ruleth over
men must be just, fearing God. 3"
Thou shalt not err in judgment;
thou shalt not care for the person
of the poor or rich, but in righteous
ness thou shalt do judgment" Let
every soul be subject unto the pow
ers, for every power that is is or
dained of God, for they are Gods
ministers" Spasmodic reforms, as
one has well said accomplish more
harm than good, but great crimes
which startle men are from slow be-
ginnings of violated law and violat-
ors of law going unpublished. 1t was
not without reason and to inculcate
a deep truth that it was written:
Take us the foxes, the little foxes
that destroy the vines, that destroy
the grape when it is yet in the clus-
ter" A friend of mine, a young
man, was addicted to drink. He
made a nuisance of himself, both
in public and in private. Misguided
kindness prevented his punishment
for misdemeanors, when suddenly
the country was startled by an I'M
provoked murder committed by him
when drunk. A conviction of one
of his numerous violations of public
decency would have possibly saved
him from the greater crime.
Dougherty county has been placed
in the public light because her jury
commission was dismissed, and one
of the counties in North Georgia be-
cause of ballot box stuff1ng, and the
balance of the counties have drawn
aside their skirts and said: Come
not near us, for we are hoIier than
thou" But suppose We that those
upon whom the tower of Sloan fell
and slew them were sinners above
all men who dwelt in Jerusalem?
tell you nay, or that those GaIIiIeans
whose blood PLATE mingled with
their sacrifices were worse than all
they that dwelt in Judea. | tell you
nay"
A gentleman of Randolph, a
caughtup man on the last grand jury,
was greatly shocked at the whipping
of prostitute, but when one of his
friends, trustee of local school
in this county, took his pistOf and
went to the school house and insult
ed a pure young girl who had in
Cured his anger by giving one of
his children a we'll merited thrash
ing, going so far as to tell her; IF
you wore pants / would whip you, "
this grand juror thought it best to
let this bully go unwhipped of JUS
tice, and succeeded in persuading
his fellows not to even summon the
principal of the school, as sit would
disgrace a good man" And this
was not the first Offense of the same
or similar nature of the same party.
Yet this grand jury found sc true
bills and depIores the growing law
lessness of the county growing out Of
the illegal sale of liquor.
Now, T have been an employe of a