El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-30

as simply another church come for the
came purpose and prosecuted them but
they saw that this was not the case
They ceased to persecute and began to
love and respect it.
THE THREE CAFES.
The speaker then turned to the
three cafes of Paris, known as
"Heaven, He'll and Death These
places of blasphemy he visited in one
night The cafe of "Hell" was the
first visited. At the door stood man
dressed to represent the devil who in
vited you to come In saying: Eater,
damned SOUL" Within the place was
fixed to represent as nearly as pos
sible "hsll" as popularity supposed
to exist. On the walls were skulls and
crossbones. To the right was re-
pre- sented the bottomless pit with
flames shooting up. Here sat music
ians attired as devils. There also was
shown the lake of fire. The walters
we're dressed as devils in red, wearing
prongs.
THE CAFE OF HEAVEN
This was next visited and it was
great contrast with the last. 1t is an
elegant building. An elegantly
dressed attendant stood at the door and
invited all to enter. Within it was
magni6cently lighted with hundreds of
incandescent lights. The furnishings
were OF the very finest.
! At the end of the hall was an altar
aud to the right pulpit. AT the altar
a man attired as priest mimicked the
church ceremonies. In the pulpit a
| man in the robes of bishop preached
| a mock sermon. His text was Gold
is our God and pleasure Is our
Heaven" A man dressed as q priest
meanwhile went around the building
with paint brush and pretended to |
bless the people. The walters were |
dressed in white from head to foot and |
on their shoulders they wore wings to
represent angels. AS they went around |
they sang ribald songs.
The golden staircase leading to
Heaven was represented. A golden
calf was brought in and carried around
and the people bowed before it.
81 asked one young man who spoke
En- glish, ''said Col Brewer" why they
did THE. And he sstd: well, we are
so disgusted with the churches that we
do this to ridicule and degrade every
thing that they hold to be sacred
They make a great pretense Of religion
but we caut see that they are any bet {
ter than others. In fact they are
worse and are in it simply to make
money. We do this to show our hatred
and contempt for them G
Col. Brewer proceeded to argue
from this the responsibility resting
upon Christians leading bad lives and
giving occasion for such criticism.
Whatever one might think, tbs
speaker said, of the value of ritualism
and ceremonies in religion, such
II ockery ss was enacted in that cafe {
he considered as blssphemous and |
THE CAFE OF DEATH.
This third and last of the three cafes l.,
was dark and gruesome. The door ,
keeper was dressed in black from head i,
to foot aud never smiled. He spoke l,
only in solemn monotones.
Within the place was dark and
gloomy aud dimly lighted. On the |,
walls were huug Grape aad pictures to !,
represent death. Instead Of tables :
there were coffin MS at which to sit and ,
On entering an attendant said to each ,
person, Choose your own coffin" :
The walters were dressed In black and :
walked with solemn measured steps. .
They never spoke unless addressed, .
when they answered In solemn mono-
tones.
This, [ was told" said Col. Brewer,
Twas only the ante chamber OF the
Death Cafe but did not wait to zee -
more and was glad to get out. q
"Thess cafes are not resorts of the :,
DOOR," said the speaker; ''on the con-
'rary, [ did net see poorly dressed =,
person while [ was there. From their
appearance all belonged 10 the we'll to
10, fashionable set."
The lecture was enlivened by sing
ng led by Major Ludgate. The crowd
emaiued to the last. They were 10 a u
'enerous mood and over Sl5 was sub
aribed to the army.
Case Continued. fl
The county court this morning con- t