The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-01-20
SAM SMALL.
HIS Experiences ut TheAtsFs DaneiAs
schools, club Housca, etc.

HIS Experiences ut Thsatsra, Dancing
schools, club Houses. Rte
CINCINNATI, Jan u.s. Sam Small, "Old
! 81, n OF tue Atlanta Constitution, MS lao was
| tamilinry known before bis conversion, con-
Quoted tho service at Trinity Nj. X. church
| before large sizsd congregation, consider
| ing the inelomeuCy aud slush OF tho weather
le IL an earnest speaker, and his language
| while not 50 quaint and original rs that Of
| Sam Jones Is more acuurrts aud refined.
| He began by saying that four months ago,
ON an afternoon something similar %
| that OF Yesterday, he was born, aud
he thought 10 would take the congre-
CATION by surprise II hs we're 10 state
that he was just four months old That
was nevertheless q fact As a man, as a
Christian, he was just four months old tie
had peon burd-nci down with sin to dis
traction, almost 20 despair II was TO him
"A question OF relief or suicide. In his ca
paCity Of giving short hand report Of one
of Sam Jones' sermons for the Atlanta Con
sutution he was touched by tho grace of
God and converted He usxt gave a history
OF his career as sinner; how he had been
hard drinksr, leading most dissolute life,
drinking nt thc bar Of different saloons and
getting drunk; how he had on one of thess
occasions been shot down and almost killed.
| After going over bis personal experience he
drew attention 20 the Immoral condition OF
| AAiN ANEAkNl Nil INV uEuN vi VIC people
| to emora tla lu,pL rne saloon
vas tho reigniug clement, aud with
it immortality aeounded, But there
were other influences ia the cities
evil in their Tendencies ThOTs was, for in.
stance, the theater, pr3,"auug the modern
drama IN all It's hideous lioniEng Of vice
The placards announcing the wages OF
| Sin" wcro sted all over tho city. WHAT
about the moral effect OF play, in which
the disgracs OF a wife ami mother are lion
lied, dsorting her family and husband 60
| lead life of debauchery ami sin, aud after
/ wards being restored to the lost ones and
reconciled in few sicksDiNg platitudes OF
virtuous regreti Aud yet Christian mothers
ami fathers would three or four times
weok visit such places of amusement, and
| by their example encourage thair children
| 60 frequent them, These werA this parents
that Knocked Almighty God by attending
| divine worship on Sundays Another
source Of danger in the city was the dance
Per 50. there mighs not bs much
harm in the exercise N the poetry Of
motion, but II had evil tendeucies
and coarse associations 4 Catholic bishop
/ had recently declared that nineteen out of
! twenty girls who confessed to their disgrace
and ruin in the confessional had ascrihsd
the cause TO the temptations Of the dance
! And yet, although their was such an abund-
| anee of bad dances, did not the dancing
masters Of the country recently hold con.
vention in New York in order to devise a
new, more tempting, mora lascivious dance,
which they appropriately named The
Derbyf The very description of il, TEN.
perately put, in the New York papers, was
not III TO be read 20 any decent woman in
the congregation. That was the 'poetry of
motion aud grace OF conduct in polite so.
ciet;' that was becoming department with
vengeance, and as for the teachers of dane
ing, who knew but some II them were Grim.
inals taken from the dungeons OF France;
aud who could vourh tor the virtue of
daughters sent to these schools where they
were in danger of crossing some young man
ready TO pluck their Innocence await With
all precautions that might be taken, there
were the dangers still.
Sam Small next paid bis respects to the
clubhouse He could talk from expert
ence about them He hal been there many
times, AMI IN Cincinnati, too. He had been
entertained there by prominent men Of the
city They and their entertainments cost
thousands and hundreds Of thousands OF
dollars IL cost a single man more money to
entertain himself there, when he should be
With his family at home, than to support
hundred families In the city.
A man might legitimateiy spend his
money, and as much OF it IS he pleased, but