The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-26
Mr.. Rives Writes of Texts
That Are MiSconStrued


/ Editor of Dawson News TO do
good and to communicate forget not.
for with such sacrifices God is We
/ pleased" BE We sober Two texts
which are misconstrued as often as
Forgive us our trespasses as we for
/ give those that trespass against us.
! The first is thought, and preached to
/ give of our substance materially TO
support of the churchly offerings;
! the second not TO get drunk on ar
dent spirits; the third to forget all
/ injuries and to receive the offender
| into as close relationship as though
/ no offense had ever been committed,
regardless of his repentance, his res
titution or his reformation. The man
/ that did the most charity in my home
sphere was Newton Macarthur, and
/ he never gave a penny in money or
goods. There was widow after the
war whose folks would not help in
any way. Newton took her boys,
worked them through his crop and
/ then their crop, took the oldest,
/ found out where some seed wheat
was to be had for work, went and
worked for that, brought it home,
and the next year there was bread in
! both homes; went to his county town,
found quilts to make, fancy work to
! do, and brought them home, diyid-
/ ing them among the widow and his
own women folks in proportion to
their numbers, and help to rear both
! families in thrift. He was sober in
! the best sense. He spoke wrong
fully of no man, but if necessary to
save others he failed not to tell men
and boys Of evil men and what as
ISOLATION with them meant. Yet he
was a convivial mamie ate and
drank as he saw fit. No church or
! lodge Che was a Baptist and a Ma
SOM controlled his actions if he
thought no harm was done by them.
! He forgave his enemies in the scrip
! tural sense of not wishing or doing
them evil, but until reparation as
! full and as publicly as the offense
was made, full apology given to him
! for the offense committed against
| him, he let them go their way with
out hindrance and he went his. Pray
/ ed for them-yes, but, as he express
/ ed it, he made no blowing horn of
/ the act That was MS ana Goa
/ business.
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/ boys self-cOntrol and the necessity
i of working with all the powers given
them by their Maker for their own
uplift as well as for the building up
of the state is the best exposition of
the first text, even though this should
mean combining them in refOrmatOry
schools, which are really hospitals
for the cure of spiritual ills, as we
| l 49, nTto al ND
physical disorders, where for the
time being the freedom OF the in
mate is taken from him and he is
made to conform to the rules of men
tai and physical health until the hab-
it becomes fixed in him to think and
eat correctly. The incurables should
be kept there. A conviyial DISPOSE
ton. one that makes light of woes,
sees the sun when clouds obscure the
skies, is a tonic sent of God with
other good things to brighten as does
the mockingbird with song and the
hummingbird with beauty all life,
and happy is he who is never sober
in this regard. One such in town
does more good than all the doctors,
spiritual and medical, you can pack
into a given space. The best invest
.
use were my family physicians and
my legal advisers-have never had
crouch in either, have never had
mental or spiritual dyspeptic and
never will-don't even want such to
go to my burial, for they would be
sure to weep at the wrong place.
laugh good and healthy would Kill
them. and there is no danger OF dys-
l,s, y-yHrb
We sober" then, means be ye free
from miasma, be We full of health, be
temperate in all things-food, drink,
speech, conduct and thought; be ye
always balanced, and "the gospel will
not be blamed, but We will be the
sons of God without rebuke in the
midst of crooked and perverse gen
Grafton" and we will be sons of God,
and will recognize your brethren
whether within or without the pale
of any church, for churches never
have and never will hold all of
Christ's flock" The sheep which are
not of the fold, never go to the
regular salt lick, are probably nour-
ishing some weak lamb Of which the
pastors never knew, because having
ewes they do not see as well as they
should the best men who walk around
them. Therefore, seeing we are
comprised about with so great
crowd of witnesses let US all in the
folds and outgive diligence to make
the world more nabitable. Respect
fully. ANDREW P. RIVES.
i PANGS OF LOVE AND THE NAVY.
From the Savannah News.