The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-11-29
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY
THEIR SUNDAYS NOW.

day and the whole town was trying
in good faith to keep its agreemen
with the committee from the grand
Jury 1t was fine spirit the business
man manifested. They put out the
fires Saturday night and they were
not lighted again till Monday. Every
body who could go was out riding Sun
day afternoon in an automobile. The
business section was so dull that look
ing at the show windows was mat
ter of small interest.
Those poor fellows who had to re
main in the drug stores and in the gas
filling stations have not been uset
to Sunday School and the Sunday
church services. That's the weight
est argument against selling cigars
and drinks and gasoline on Sunday
Now since they have been set free
has anything been done to bring them
to church on Sunday?
Oh, you say they have been invited
That is not enough. Is there anything
special in the program at Sunday
school? Are we sure that we are cap
able of making the church services
interesting to those badly jaded Sun
day workers who are slightly out o.
tune with the universe because they
have not had opportunity to look in
side a house of worship in so long
time?
No, il is not an answer we need. II
is a really interesting Christian ser
vice on Sunday that the average mar
and young man can attend and from
which he can reap real benefit be
cause he has been interested in what
he has heard and seen. The young
ster loves to play ball all day in the
back lot. He likes to play marbles
He likes to spend Sunday on the creek
in the swimming hole and in this eli
mate he can do it two-thirds of the
year. Anybody know how many Of
them do it? Ever see any of them
on the farm riding wild steers on Sun
day? Of course, the drug clerk and
gasoline man don't do it,
And this is not meant as an unfair
reflection on the boys and young mel
of the community. They are just boys
and young men like all other boys and
young men. There are more gentle
manly boys and young men in Cordelt
than in any other community to its
size we ever knew. They are not I'm
gentlemanly boys because some OF
them ride wild steers on Sunday
Make that Sunday School service
interesting and they'll find time to be
there whether the drug stores are
open or not, whether the gasoline is to
be sold or not They'll find a way tC
be there In spite of the work, they
do much as they please, not just I
little part of the time. but all the
time. For instance, there are dates
with the young ladies to be filled. They
fill them.
We saw man conducting a Sunday
School service not a thousand years
ago that we knew to be insincere il
his business life during the week. w,
had not misjudged him. We tried t,
be fair with him,-has given him priv
ileges and had shown a neighbour!
spirit to him every time we had OPP
portunity. but he had chosen after al
this not to treat kindly with us. His
Sunday School program was not in
teresting to us May be, that was jus
an unfortunate circumstance. but i
illustrates another point which mus
be discussed.
The interesting service is not al
of it. The people who go to churcl
and sing loudly and pray with Ions
faces on Sunday are watched NOR,
closely during the week than are Other
people Their misdeeds look a thou
sand times larger than those of tht
average. every day person. The lead
az in Sunday services at the churcl
sometimes gets to his position b!