St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-04
THE VICES OF MEN
Discussed in -Yester-
days Sayford Meetings.

Discussed in Confidence-Yest
days Sayford Meetings.
An audience of men filled the audi
torium of the Central Presbyterian
church yesterday afternoon to hear Mr.
Sayford's celebrated confidential
Talk" 1t was not the ordinary sense
less rot that one hears so often. but
every step of the way was backed up
by scientific facts or facts gathered in
the experience of the speaker. His in
tense, enthusiastic belief in his position
made him very eloquent. He began by
aScertaining how many church members
were present, and found them about
fOur-fifthS of the audience. He eX-
pressed satisfaction, as his talk was to
church members. He said: The nation
and the church needs not more men but
more man. The little borer kills the
tree, so the insignificant things
sap manhood. You cannot love
your wife and another woman
in the same way. So you
cannot love God and the world equally.
Fly your kite as high as you please, but
remember for all this God will bring you
to Judgment. The things that | would
class as ''insignifcant things are
tobacco, cards, dancing, theater
going, profanity and vulgarity.
haps, and indulge in these or some
OF them, but they prevent your reaching
as high point of Christian character.
Each one of these points was dealt with
in detail. Tobacco Injuries the body.
Physicians and athletes both admit this.
Many a man is like beef hung
in smoke house. He is saturated.
Cigarettes were taken for granted as
injurious. Cards are the thief of time
and give nothing to show Tor it. When
checkers cause as many men to become
gamblers and embeZZlerS and thieves as
cards then I'll wage war against them.
The dance leads men to take liberties
with the respectable women who dance.
This occurs under the excitement of
the movement, but have the testimony
of leading society women to the truth OF
this statement. This simply indicates
the power Of passionate excitement that
is common. Cold. phlegmatic men are in
little danger, but the majority of dancers
are not of this kind. Women without
realizing the effect, think, dress so III
ball room that only an iceberg could
keep perfectly cool. The thealer as an
institution he dealt with by reading an
attack on him from the Chicago Inter
Ocean, and by very powerful article
from the same paper on the Minnesota
anti-tights bill. This latter went fur
Their against the prevalent immortality
of the stage and the low standard of the
public taste than the speaker himself.
''When it is possible to see such pict-
ures on the bill boards as daily greet our
eyes, 1t is pretty good criterion
of what the people tolerate"
Drinking, RIGHTEOUSNESS, ETC., were at
tackled with great intensity. The men
who take social glass. if they can con-
troll themselves, are rebuked by the
Pauline doctrine of saving the weaker
brother. You only do it to crafty your
own appetite, and some one else follows
you, but does not stop. He goes to the
devil. Some of the personal experiences
of the speaker were thrilling. At the
close, upon invitation, about 200 men
arose to show their intention to cut off
the secret thing that prevented higher
velopment4 Three or four hundred
more arose to express a wish to live
nearer God