Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-05-03
AMUSEM ENTS.
A. ScorChing Sermon on Social
AfnuSefffents. " = i.

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A. Scorchlng Sermon on Social
ADJUSTMENTS.
! Evangelist Sunday drew a tremen-
dous crowd to the rink Sunday night,
! when he preached , oh;. 1.-THE Amuse-
ments of Modern Society,"" Standing
room was at a premium, and it is no
exaggerationto say that hundreds were
turned away, because they could not
gain entrance. The speaker ''shelled
the woods.'' He placed theatre-going,
card-playing and dancing under the
same category and denounced them in
no uncertain way. The theatre has
degenerated, he claimed, until the So
called Legitimate" plays and TRACE
t dies play to losing houses and bank
rupt every. manager who tries to pre-
sent them. Strip them Of their leg
shows and other immoral features and
| they will lose their attraction for most
the patrons of the theatre. The social
card-playing parties he described as
the 'kindergartens for the gambling
hells." 1t was on dancing, however,
that he turned his main batteries. He
denounced dancing as being ungodly
and immoral. Some Of his remarks
and quotations on this subject are
given herewith, as follows:
II have never fatty disputed the
girl who says it has never done her a
particle of harm. [ sometimes say it
may have done you harm that you
will realize later. if you do not at the
present time. But when she tells me
that no thought of passion, that no
impurity or lust has ever entered her
mind in connection therewith, 1 say
Thank God.'
''Prof. T. A. Faulkner. formerly pro-
prietOr of the Los Angeles Academy
and ex-president of the Dancing Mas
ters' Association, Of the Pacific coast,
who has written a startling book,
From the Ball Room to HE'LL, and is
now working in a mission in Los
Angeles, says: I have had ample op:
portunity of seeing causes at work and
the effect and pronounce it the most
hellish of all institutions on earth.
The following 200 cases of girls who
are to-day inmates of houses Of shame,
were brought there through following
causes:
Dancing school and ball room 1861
Drink and careless OF companions 20.
Willful choice 10.
Poverty and abuse I.
''And further says, 4 know OF a Sc
lecU 'tancing school, where in a course
of three months eleven of it's victims
became inmates of brothels.
THE latest figures as to the number
OF fallen women in America were
CLEANED last year by the w. g. T. u.
They say 100000, and 375, 900 out of the
half million have been led to, their
courses through The dance. Is there
any one so degraded that they can see
no harm in that? Why not be frank and
say, 1 see no harm in adultery, Sc
duction, brothels, aud harlotry' and
all the long line of awful shame and
sin? Some one may say, 1T is not
nice to talk about these things but
the facts must be made known. The
brave preacher of righteousness can
never be hushed by a worldly sensual
church member who will not see, or
will not hear, or will not heed no mat
ter what is said. When you stop do
ing these things will stop preaching
abou6 them.
''An churches forbid dancing,
Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian,
Congregational, Baptist, Episco.
pal and even Spiritualists.
The Oldest church of all, the Ro-
mali Catholic, from the pastoral letter
of the Archbishops and Bishops as
senbled in Plenary Council in Balti-
more, said:
Ia this connection we consider it
to be our duty to warn our people
against those amusements which may
easily become to them an occasion OF
sin, and especially against the fash
ionable dances, which as at presen,
carried on are revolving to every feel.
ing OF delicacy and propriety and are
traught with the greatest danger tt
MORALS
"Bishop Hopkins of Vermont, O.
the Episcopal Church, Senior Bishop
aud Il man who could neither b.
called narrow nor ignorant, wrote az
follows: In the period OF youthful
education, l have shown that dancing
is chargeable with waste of time, the
interruption of useful study, the indul
gence of personal vanity and display
AND THE PREMATURE INCITEMENT OF
THE PASSIONS. At the age of matur
lty it adds to these no small danger tc
health, by late hours, himsy dresses
heated rooms and exposed persons
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