The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-07-15
SINS WILt FIND YOU OUT
AIR RIVE, RECITEs INSTANCES
OF THIS BIBLE TRUTH.
The Beauty and Simplicity of the
scriptures. The Safe Man Is One
Makes God His Partner.

Makes God His Partner.
"All scripture is by inspiration OF
cad and is profitable for doctrine,
and reproof in righteousness. Thou
La.+ cot our secret sins in the light
of Thv countenance. Thou hast done
tbis thing secretly, but l will do this
.bi,o before all Israel and before
+ba SIM" The truth of the Bible is
;rcontestable for several reasons.
First, it reveals humanity as it ap-
,,oore naturally in all times-its
aood and it's bad acts. Abraham and
David are pictured not only when
worshipping God, but when commit
ting reprehensible acts; nothing is
hid Second, by the sublimity and
SIMPLICITY. SAID John Randolph of
Roanoke, scholar, traveller, diplomat,
senator and ambassador: mo other
writings translated into all dialects
retain as do the scriptures their sim
plcity and their sublimity." And
BENTON said of Randolph: Ere
ouently in his calm moments, in his
comments o. the scriptures, he
would waste more jewels Of language
IN an hours discourse than an ordi-
nary man would use in lifetime"
Men can't hide their activities nor
their sins from their associates, and
asDacially from their children. A
man Wronged a woman. He took her
and moved into a new coul try, where
q son was born to him, and men
thought he was leading a model life.
Time passed; the son was grown, and
he followed lis father, but this faith
or Drawer than most Of US would
have been, hitched up his carriage,
took his own woman and his son and
went by the girls home and took
her. and going to the probate's office
righted his wrong to the boys moth
err and had his son to right his wrong
to the girl. Yet until the son COM
mitted his wrong the father did not
know that the son knew he had
wronged his mother. This was told
to me by the mans kinsman.
A man was a secret thief. His
neighbor's stock would disappear,
none knowing where. He reared
seven sons, and all men who knew
them or had any business dealings
with them did not repeat, for each son
was thief. Yet their father thought
that by family prayer, amen-corner
religion, giving experiences and
praying for sinners" during reviv-
al services he had successfully hid
from his children his rascality. A
man was murdered. The murderer
successfully hid his identity; nothing
could be proved against him. Time
passed, and the crime was forgotten
by most men; his children grew up,
but two sons filled suicides graves.
The balance became as Cain, "fugi-
tiyes and vagabonds in the earth,
and the father died dishonored in the
place near Were he had taken life.
Nothing is truer than that "Be ye
sure of this, your sins will find you
out, and some mems sins go before
them to judgment; others follow af-
ter" The safe man Is the man who
makes God his partner in every
transaction. One of my fathers ak
IONS was: God and I ere ma
jority though the whole world Is
against me, but without God I am a
hopeless minority, though the whole
world be for me-" Next to God his
children, if he has any, If not some
young person, should be every grown
persons companion, for another tru-
ism, too often overlooked, IS: "A
little child shall lead them" One
of the model families Of my knowl-
edge is where the father uses his
boys as his com panions in all his
pleasures, and his greatest happiness
is to lay all his honors and his world
ly acquisitions, and he has both, I'M
der tribute to add to his wife and
children's happiness. Yet, he is not
a member of any church, but one of
the sheep who are not of this fold, .
but whom the Lord says 81 will
bring, and there shalt be one fold
and one Shepherd"
ANDREW P. RIVES.