The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-15
FLAYED THE 400.
DR.. Minot J. Savage Rakes New
York's Select Fore and Aft.
(Chicago Inter Ocean)

Chicago Inter ocean,
New YOrk.-Ihe Rev. Minot J. Saw
age pastor Of the Church of the Mes
sIah, preached on Home and Society"
In the course of his sermon he SAID:
There is in New York and in all our
great cities that which calls itself par
excellence society. 1t is made up of
our -Four Hundred, or, 1 think, some
recent authority has been reducing it
to $50; whatever the number may be,
l do not mean to say anything against
the persons who constitute TINS interior
organization in society; many of them
are noble, Intellectually cultivated,
charitable and generous; / have no
word to say against them as indi-
viduals.
But a society that is organized
around the idea of wealth alone must
of necessity be ignoble and vulgar.
There is nothing in the highest and
finest sense Of the word human merely
in the possession of wealth, and if
these people VINO meet together and
constitute a certain section Of society
merely because they are rich viii ex-
cuse me for not wanting to be with
them, viii freely pardon them for not
asking me. There is nothing there that
is in any way attractive TO a person
who cares for what is essentially high
and fine in humanity. and it degener-
ates sometimes into that which is eX-
ceedingly vulgar.
4 was at the opera the other night
and I saw one LADY, do not know who
she was, though 1 might have found
out by seeking the number of the box
on the programme and reading the
name-who illustrates what this sort
Of thing comes to when il degenerates
and gets itself perfect expression. I
have never seen anything outside a
showcase at Tiffany's that in any way
suggested this lady. 1t was barbaric
in the extreme. She had the air Of
telling everybody that she had not
come there to hear the music, but
merely to lie looked at, and she was
loaded and hung all over, in every
possible place, with diamonds and gems
and jewels of every kind.
Now, We can forgive an Indian or a
Fiji islander for his anklets and
bracelets, for his nose rings and ear
rings, because he has not, presumably.
beer developed to anything higher than
these; but the type of society whose
N4oNllAS ulSilih6 feature IS I0aE KIND of
| thing certainly is not human in the
true sense in which the word ought 10
be used.
. . 9
I know wOmen-I have known of
them-I have nobody at present in New
York in mind in saying this. and I
speak of them because they are special
/ ly and peculiarly the home-makers-
who nave given themselves. up so .un-
! reserYedly, so indulgently. to the
pleasure side Of society that they have
! little time for the home for their
/ children, for their husband, for Gull
/ tiyating the highest and finest things
! in themselves. They exceed the lust
/ limits and proportions, perhaps with
out any intention, by giving themselves
/ so to the mere pleasure side Of society
J interests.
! For example, l have known women
/ to belong to three or four whist clubs
/ and devote half Of the week-perhaps
more-to playing whist. I have moth
( ing to say against whist, but no mat
/ ter what the thing may be. it is quite
} impossible for people to spend more
( time on it than they have a right 10
spend, in view Of a hundred other
things that demand their attention"