El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-16
CREATES A SENSATION.
Evangelist Moody Advises Wives of
UnfaithfuI Husbands to Divorce.

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Unfaithful Husbands to Divorce.
Evangelist Moody paid his respects
to the Boston pastors the other night
who charged him with ''lowerirg the
pulpit" ''If the pulpit is as high as
Bunker Hill monument is it had better
come down." the retOrted. Then he
went on: Nor is this all | want to
speak about. [ say to you wives that
| if you know your husbands are living
| impure lives get divorce from them.
| There, [ know that is a sensation, but
[ meant it. | believe that many man
who is living wrong life would give
up that life and become Christian if
| he knew that his good wife would leave
him if he did not. | believe that if a
| woman continues to live with hus-
| band who she knows is Leading an i'm
pure life, believe she is about as bad
as be is.
Il am criticised because | have
| preached against the breaking of the
marriage vows. 1 can't but speak of
these things when [ remember tae
awful conditions of affairs in this coun-
try. Look at New York. where the
papers are full of what has been done
there. Why. when [ was in New York
and that foreign woman was brought
over there to sing bad songs, they
wanted me to go and hear her so that
could preach against her; tol them 1
WASH In that business
''Then they had the songs translated
into English and brought them to me
to read. They were SO vile | couldn't
read them. and l would have been
ashamed to read them to a man, and
yet men and women of New YOrk'S So
ciety tumbled over each other in their
eagerness to go and hear When such
things are possible, hasn't the time
come for every pure-minded man and
tn take a stand for nI1r1tV ~
The attention of Mr.. Sankey was
called to the above yesterday at the
Pierson. and he said it was all right.
why should pure woman continue
to live with an impure man:' he asked.
Her separation from him is entirely
scriptural'" Mr.. Sankey then refer
ed to the wretched condition New York
was in morally and the need of the
most energetic effort to stem the tide
OF evil threatening to engulf the great
cities OF the country, especially New
York. The Seeley dinner was a fair
illustration of the terrible state into
which the morals of American youth
were falling. Mr.. Sankey was pleased
to learn that young Szeley and his i'm
mediate associates in getting up that
dinner had been indicted by the grand
jury, and hoped that stern justice would
be meted out in full. Those Seeley
boys were of unsound stock anyway, be-
who was a good deal in the nature of a
fraud himself.
Mr.. Sankey was pleased to state that
Mr.. Moody was hitting out right and
left against sin, crying aloud and
sparing not He was especially stirring
up the churches to evangelical work
and general effort, for something must
be done to fight the gigantic evils
growing in this country, and the mad
scramble and greed for worldly gain.
In the matter of the Bradley-Martiu
fancy dress ball, Mr.. Sankey held that
as the Bradley Martins and their set
were not processing Christians, but
purely worldly minded people, it was
perfectly consistent with their worldly :
mindedness for them to engage in such
amusements. But it was not the part
of protesting christians to participate
in them. Such are set apart from the
world and its allurements, and have
no part or lot with the things of this
world.