The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-01-21

I'm this degenerate age, when mer
lily brook restraint or instruction, ant
money has surpassed the rights of TIT
clergy to a certain extent, it is unu
sual for the latter to attack without
extenuation or paIliation those SIM
which it is their duty. as admonist
ers and guides to attack. 1t is moi
that the great body of the clergy are
not aware of their duty in this respect
but certain members of their profess
ION, With more the fear of offending
their influential patrons before them,
than the ofense which their negligence
brings upon the church, resolutely
endea vor to throw obstacles in THEN
way, and thus counterbalance the
good work which might otherwise be
accomplished. Recently however q
Cana dian minister named Douglass,
at Montreal, with courage which is
worthy of a following, has put to
shame, the lukewarm and cowardly
among his brethren, and all Canada is
at present talking of his denunci.
atory address. In view of this fact
and because it is undoubtedly the ut
terance of a conviction which might
find an echo in our land, the following
extract from Rev. Douglass much
discussed sermon is appended:
"After comparing Montreal
with London, as described by the edi-
tor of the Pail Mall Gazette, he de-
nounced the modern drama, Langtry
iu Camille and Patti in La Traviata.
"Who is Camille ?'' said he. SAN
abandoned woman, a social outcast.
In the denouement of the play this So
lance with idle AMI reckless debauc6-
es. The drama is spiced with that
infamy of the French language, the
double Intention full of all salscious
suggestion and then yelled in rose
color. We have the bitter finale of
the so-called woman Of pleasure, in |
which the rubicund actress pales her |
face with white powder, arrays her.
self in white robe, reciines volupt.
nously On the couch, Stimulates the
gaspings of the consumptive and in
the villains arms mimics the expiring
groan, when 10! your dowager duch-
esses of different parts of this city
draw forth their perfumed handker
chiefs and wipe their weeping eyes
over this burlesque of grim death it.
self" !,
"But these dE hesses have no com.
passion, 20 tears for the scores oil
Candles that languish in the city
hospitals. 1t is time some should lift
up their voices7in our city against the
influence of our modern stage, which {
Mrs. Kendall, the friend of our queen, t
frankly admits is tainted from its GEN.
Esr to its circumference. as was illus /
rated in her own play in our city. t
81 impesch booksellers and station. 8
srs % at war with virtue. Look at s
he sons and daughters of most chris d
ain families. What company do they t
Keep! In the retirement of their own
'ooms, in the silence of the midnight
pur, they companionste with the o
'agabonds and profiigates and out 4
asts. Creations these OF the Brad =
Ions, the ill-famed Ouidas and the d
'winburnes all garnished with the Y
plendor Of descriptive diction, but i,
till the product of the foulest minds :,
f our age. ;,
II impeach the moral sense of our VI
ity for its criminal indifference to c
be character of its public men. Look G
the men that have been elected TO 90
ur council and civic chair. This 6.
ity has elected men from whose
ONES virtue has fed; men who have q
ought to introduce the Ottoman ser. al
Clio into our country; men whose al
YES were a perpetual defiance Of the Il
sventh canon of the Decalosde. =
hese men, whose immortality was ~
AIRED in the very face of heaven, G.
ave come forward again and again, s.
ad have been elected and re elected, 81
ntil it would seem that vice itself, in +,
MS city of Montreal, were one of the :
redentials for high Office. And look al
t the men that our city council has pl
ppointed to official positions com al
anions of the fast, the dubious, the 81
ashy; poker players set to catch the T,
amblers; men in whose Office is the
Underground telegraph to signalize 9
be bagnio when raids are to be make. lie