The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-26
so SAYS DIR. LANSING BURROWS
TO THE SOUTHERN BAP-
list CONVENTION.
LITERATURE OF TODAY is BAD
Distinguished Southern Preacher
ToUs of Cheap Magazines and the
Sensational Press. Achievement
of Sunday School Board.

Sensational 1ICoS' ~ANAO'
Of Sunday School Board.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Present-day
lectures and drama of today were bit
+er1v denounced by Dr.. Lansing Bur
rows of Americas, Ga, in an address
before the Southern Baptist Conven-
ton. of which he is president. The
occasion was a response to the pre-
sanitation of the new Sunday school
hoard building to the convention.
what God, the creator of man
kind and inspirer of thought, has in
tended to make men wise unto saliva
ton through faith, which is in Jesus
Christ" DR.. Burrows declared, 1.-The
arch enemy has seized with which
thew may be lured to destruction.
Having a delirious interest in reading
we are easy preys to the designing.
Thus are all the hateful dogmas of
religious. social and political heresy
Dropagated Socialism, as represent
ed by one of its leaders, puts nine
tenths of its income into literature,
choosing the Sabbath day for its dis
tribution into the homes of the peo-
pie The adherents of an hysterical
substitute for soul-saving in the guise
of body healing publish a daily jour
nal of no mean proportions. The
cult of libibinous present through in
Vulnerable cheap magazines attract
i've pictures of undraped forms, and
even the advertisements reveal wo-
men in corsets and men in under
clothes, And Gods people fill their |
center tables with these seductive in
fuences. As one of our own leaders
has expressed it, the weakest place
in our UNCONVENTIONAL life is that oc-
easioned by your lack Of making ade-
quate provision for the supplying of !
the masses of the people with the
right kind of religious literature.
After recounting the great achieve
ments of the Sunday school board !
he said:
"And now we STAND before the
door of opportunity. The indomita-
BILE industry of the destroyer of hui
man souls adapts his energies to
shifting conditions. His most auda-
cious attack is now upon the litera-
ture of the age The three past gen
erations have cultivated the reading |
habit. Men have grown story-mad |
and dramatically insane. The novel
list and the dramatist have the |
influence upon the present |
generation. They bring no glad It'd
ings for its inspiration to nobler
things. They are men with micro
scopes fastened upon social bacteria
and never upon glittering stars.
when with the incisiveness of
their practiced pen they have destroy
ed a microbe they have destroyed the
healthy tissue upon which it had
Toasted. They are like a foolish man
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Of fleas. They defend their atrocities
by the plea that they are describing
life as it is. They do not; they show
US the rotten cancers of life. They |
make the great city the theatre of
life. They present to usi.fhe great
Of New York. with its I
great white way, blatant with its vul-
gar extravagances, reeking with the |
odious smells of its sensuality, aroar |
with the shouts Of its chorus girls |
and it's sodden spendthrifts, a home
less, Christless, narrow proved and |
shriyeled worshippers of Mammon |
and lust, and they tell US this is life. |