The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1869-03-11

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The PTV II Ainisssa Reduced 70 Is Cents.
The lecture season nnder the au-
spices Of tho Y NJ. G. A. Of this
city will close on Tuesday evening
next, With that remarkable pro-
duction OF Writ SKIES, safer
darkin New York" Mr.. SKIES
is beyond doubt ono Of the most
brilliant lecturers Of our country,
I having established his claim TO
that title before the most intelli.
gent and refined audiences in all
tho great cities, and the same bay-
ing been endorsed BY tho lea1ing
presses in every place where he
has held forth. The circumstance
OF Mr. Skies having been engaged
to appear so soon after the tho re-
cent lecture by Mr.: Hewlett il
owingto the fact Of his happening
in tho vicinity of our city in tho
course ofthe lecture tour on which
be is engaged, when the opportu-
nifty had to be seized at once or
the pleasure of hearing him fore.
gone for thepresent season. The ex.
traordinary character OF the lecture
selected for delivery hore, and
its unusual interest for oil class cs
ofpeoplc, have induced the man
aging committee to reduce the
price of ad mission to twenty five
cents, to all parts of the Hall, so
that mono need deny themselves
the pleasure and benefit of listen
ing to this renowned production.
Tickets for sale at tho Bookstores,
and by Billinghurst and Tuthill.
The article subjoincd will give
the reader some idea of tho pow.
ers of WRIT SIKRs as as a lecturer.
From the Rockford Qll.) Register.
E"GO ye and Work In my Vine-
yard"
Writ Skies, last, Saturday night
in Brown s Hall, delivered lee.
turo which should be repeated
wherever in the land he can find
listeners, No man having q latent
spark Of philanthropy in his breast,
could have hoard the lecture
through without having that spark
kindled into a steady glow ofcom
passion tor the unfortunate OF largo
cities who by completely of cir
.cumstances have presented TO them
the dread alternative OF life OF
infamy or starvation.
"The old, old story" of the
thousands of half starved women
and girls, in all largo cities, OF
whom Henry Ward Beechcr once
said, "there is but o needle be-
tween them and iniamy. and whom
that breaks they fall straightway
into hell" is familiar TO ell. In
deed, so accustomed are good peo-
pie to hearing this fearful truth, that
they seemingly regard it as no
part Of Christian duty to devote
mind end money, in any measure,
toward the ameliorGtion of the Goa.
ditiou of the poor women and
girls in our large cities, of whom
thousands arc yearly driven by
terrible necessity into q mode of
life-nay, more appropriately, lin
gering dcath-trUm the contempla-
iion Of which humanity turns with
a shudder But Writ Skies
brought us face to face with in.
dividual cases Of orphan girls in
New York nobly fighting starva-
tion, with the needle for their
weapon, until, with wuiully in
adequate compensation, insufficient
food, want OF clothing and home
comforts, all combined, health fails
them, and they give up tho une-
quail contest. Then the scene
changes from one of saduess to
one of unulterable woe. limo
cence is blighted, purity defied,
hopes of eternal lite inherent in
the human mind are relinquished,
names once sweet to hear are ad
ded to the catalogue Of souls ir.
retrievably lostl And this is the
fearful price at which immunity
from starvation is purchased By
thousands Of once pure and lovabio |
girls in the great cities of the
Union.
In garrets, in poor tenements, in |
Easements, and far under ground,
in our large cities, myriads Of en-
aciatod hands are outstretched for
succor, and thousands of hearts,
anguished, yetpurc, are throbbing
their silent appeals to the Chris.
tian world to relieve their posses
sors from the fearful necessity of
proloDging existence by a mode Of
lite from which they instinctively I
recoil US from tho gates OF hell
We pretend not to estimate the
burden of responsibility resting
upon the Christian world Tor every
soul thus lost. Money, ifproperly !
used. will doubtless save many
souls without the AID of the clergy.
Ard if countless millions were
placed ut our disposal, to be used
in the service OF God and Charity,
not one dollar would we use in
the attempt TO reform the inmates
and frequcnters Of those dens Of
iniquity into which Wirt Skies