The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-10-09
THE WAR MAY BRING
Much GOOD TOPEOPLE
Y ORR MAKES NOTABLE TALK
no YOUNG PEOPLE ON THE
EUROPEAN CONFLICT.
"a YEARS IN SUNDAY SCHOOL

Atlanta Manufacturer Says Back of
Every Great War in Modern HistO-
~ Has Been Some Great Purpose
of the Creator.
TX. Orr, a wealthy manufacturer
# Atlanta, made the following talk
N the MEMBERS of the Sunday school
If the First Christian church at the
,souest of the pastor, DR.. L. O..
Bricker
II suppose the reason my good
friend. DR.. Bricker, desired me on
This mornings program is to show
how one only moderately old might
e have a record of fifty years in Sun
iay school and still be alive" he
aid.
q am not going to claim continu-
ans service, because there have been
reriods when I dropped out, but as
hope to have received forgiveness
for this and am now back on the job
lean reasonably hope to count as be-
1g enlisted for the war.
"As it is against the rules to talk
about the war on week days in our
business. and as we all think more or
less about it, l hope it will not be
out of place to say word here.
1T must be in the minds of many
Of you why an All-Wise Providence,
whom most of us believe directs the
1sstinies of men, as well as nations,
Eould in this day of christian civil
ntion allow such a devastation as is
bday wrecking most Of the homes
= md involving nearly all the govern
lents of Europe.
"Of course, we read in the Bible
bout wars and rumors of wars, but
lack of every great war in modern
istory has been some great purpose
Ii the Creator. The revolutionary
Ear, separating our country from
England. made possible this land Of
the free and the home of the brave,
(which has ever since been the asylum
Ngfor the prosecuted of all nations. Our
I own war in the sixties settled a great
guestion, and forever unified this
cCuntry to make it one Of the world
powers. And so back of this present
war so hard to understand, there
will come some time some great good
to the help of the peoples of the
earth.
DR., Bricker has asked me to en-
Phasize my opinion as to whether or
bot young man choosing his path
pay in life would be helped or hin
cred by his church activity. While
will not presume to answer that
ueStion I think l am safe in saying
nat no young man ever lost a place
ever failed to get a place on ac-
count Of his membership in Sun
az school or the Young Mems Chris
an Association.
Some very wise man has figured
PIT that the property in the world
puld be easily divided in two classes.
n the one hand, all the real estate,
Ills machinery, stocks, bonds and
onles Of the world; and on the 9TH
nand, if you will, the character,
rams and muscle of the peoples OF
World. And this same party is
minority for the statement that this
uef' the character, the brains and
aSc-e, are worth five times as much
all the other visible property in
{ world, Need l say to you that
greatest Of these is character?
F7u tell you that character, like
uScle' is question OF development,
u nothing so strengthens the fibers
character as christian conduct,
q IAese are helped or hindered as
associate with christian people,
aS you cOnsecrate each day you
80 70 the service of right rather
gu ahow yourself to be led off by
DoWer-bedecked paths of pleas
o. Tor these reasons, if no other,
,Vpe' my young friends, that you
vonunue to give in your youth
- aeart to those things that stand
1e upbuilding of christian life
'Iafaeter, remembering always
'Aeerfulness is one of the best