The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-21
/ TAB ON YOUNG MEN.
preacher Nutting Has Found
where They Spend Sunday.
.any OF THEM IN THE SALOON.
~..vAre Not Overerowding the Churches
Moses Counted at Both Places
Denominational Notes.

eating would touch on the moral tone of
s..,tle .ufficed to fill Plymouth Congrega-
ticnaI church, which is always crowded,
!. the very doors last night. Among the
..,vrepation could be noticed many who
.. not often seen in church. and, in fact,
rumber of those who spend their Sun
a.vs in a very different manner as a rule.
& ~. Mating first gave an entertaining
tslk on Wicked Saints" apropos OF the
..conization of Columbus. Then after
~ usual preliminary services of song and
aver, Mr.. Nutting proceeded to tell
How the Men of Seattle Spend Sunday"
ssting for his text Matt. iv:4-5:
And the tempter came and said unto Him: II
ssou Art the Son OF God, command that these
go. become bread. But He answered and
aid: II is written, man shall not live by bread
.lone. but By every word that proceedeth out of
H. mouth OF God.-Matt iv:4-5
He said the error of the generation was
IL effort to subsist on stones. 1t has been
deceived by the hope o: living on wages.
He spoke of life presenting itself as a
strugcle for existence to the great mass of
men, and said that the effort to live by
bread along had always resulted in the
loss of manhood and the degradation Of
lQn3UItJ W tAC pi<ibC VI Ill
life. He said:
We know that If We eat and drink only to-
morrow we perish; our empty souls shall wan
des voiceless and unresponsive through ways
unknown, while our bodies may enter into the
phosphaies OF a farmer of the next aeon, to
cxt at the foot OF his vine or scatter over his
eurdeld. Men who live like animals are for.
eosen like animals.
Mr. Nutting next referred to two classes
ofmen as making mistakes: the class who
Cs trying to live by working seven days
n the week Chat is. those who think they
shall live by plenty of bread), and the
eIss who try to find their larger life by
hedng on stones in their Sunday hours
dust He then entered into the follow
h9dsails:
m are about sixty churches and ten mis-.
smasrons in Seattle. There are about 6o,000
ssss in the city. Not counting the missions
IN are therefore about 1000 persons to q
auth. The directory gives a list OF ls5sa-
imss but some OF these are in suburban towns.
Ian told by gentleman who got his informa-
rn from the authorities that there are 1S9 ga
ocns in the city. That is about 430 persons to q
aoon. Or. comparing the churches and sa-
looms, there are about three churches for seven
nioons. There are said to be three theaters
one theater that lays claim to respcctability
running on Sunday. The other theater making
this claim does not open on Sunday night.
There IL also large music hall. OF course no
record can be made of private homes and re-.
noFts
Now, II is frequently said that the churches
~ empty and the saloons full. But 1t is true
Of saloons Is well as churches that some contain
many people and some but few. There are said
N ~ al mt ind ard IN tbair
esuse, aud see no reason TO doubt it. A saloon
may be unattractive as well as a church. That
lone reason why il is better that saloons should
b compelled to seek back alleys, and kept
under the ban OF the law, so that they will not
take the risk of expanding great sums in deco
ration.
There is desire on the part of most men to
20 where people are. The consequence is that
some resorts are crowded, and it is probable
that not few men go the rounds of
the more popular places, and are thus
counted several times. Indeed, three
young men who had been counted at
music hall last sunday night were afterwards
seen to attend service here. of course, that
may have Been true of several more. But 1t
ought not to be thought that all go to question.
able resorts for the purpose of INDUCING in
drink or other forms of sin. Doubtless many go
merely to see and amuse themselves OF course,
this is the way to worse things. But there is
many warm heart, and many character con.
tanning all the elements OF power and the posi-
biiisies OF purity, strolling around the theaters
and saloons Of the city, because during the
week days. there is little attraction elsewhere,
and getting into the habit week day nights, he
simply continues it tonight
Mr.. Nutting thought that no young man
had right to say. THE saloon is the only
place there is for me-" as he could easily
Ind the Christian Association rooms; he
could take books from the public library,
o.. he conducted himself as a decent
citizen, he could find decent society open
0him. He called attention to the fact
That almost every night in the week there
somet0ng of an innocent character
gong forward that is fitted TO interest
uind not given up entirely to impurity,
and, As an instance. said there would be
social gathering in Plymouth church every
Gay this week and on four OF its evenings
which is certainly as many as any man
can wish TO go out.
he next urged that. inasmuch as men
whose tastes had become initiated would
not come to such entertainments, they
ought 10 be taken TO them. He said:
When this city grows SO that not enough peo-
II
var down town it will be a duty TO continue the
ssivees OF the church Cor the benefit o. the
People who surround If. Roman Catholic
sausehes never have TO move; why should
'totes,an' churches do so? Because the caste
! spiff finds a homo in Some of them, and the
tamor OF 1t becomes curse to them all.
ihe preacher next compared the attend
anee OF several churches in the city with
shas OF saloons. He had his count taken
On TIE previous Sunday night, when the
,a'n was horizontal, not perpendicular.
.ie had arrived 1T the conclusion that the
Serage Christian is cautious of his health.
Aheh ne made the following interesting
Comparisons:
mere were on tha, night less persons in this
causeh than ever before since it was built The
~'seaushee at the various points is that of men
on1!, aaa Was IS follows: First PRESBYTERIAN,
TIE Methodist Protestant, -: 81 Marks
episcopal, 4; First Methodist, q; Plymouth.
49,. $50 ~ At the same time. within an hour,
s~e,s sa'eFed Iivoii music hail 1876: New
S. mouse. U.s. Peoples theater. $50 the
aug saloon, -; Cogdrays theater 4.a These
asures look large, ana their IooAs u no, belle
wen. But there are some Ehings that mitigate
TIE 'igoss OF the comparison.
W DAD night you wll probably find ahou,
many. snd IN some eases more IN q saloon .,
o,as' resort than GA 8 Peasant evening. Nao
aSe 70 walk on fine night, and they frequently
S'hio saloon 10 get cat o: the rain. peon1,.
-. sad dIiGk about IS much on stormy DAYS "a
~aefs They e2nnot drink without Going
acre the drink IS; hut II a citizen persusfes
ASST that he need nDt go 20 church, he c.u
IN his room, and often does so.
ine speaker did not think il would he
.pp'opfiaie for him 10 denote which of
As PAGES he mentioned were merely