The Cairo bulletin., 1904-12-03
BISHOP ON SOCIAL EVILS.
Women's Clubs Gard and Wine Par
ties Diseountenanced.

Bishop Duncan while holding the
North Georgia conference of the M.
z, church South al Marietta, Ga.
/ preached a sermon on "Social Evils"
which is attracting some attention
The Spartanburg Journal gives the
features of the sermon as follows
The bishop declared that society
is leading women TO ruin, and that
many violations of the law by the SO
cety set are winked at. I see,' said
the bishop, when am visiting around
during the year, the empty benches at
the prayermeetings, the lack of at
tendance q, the church societies ana
the non-attendance to the ordinary re.
ligiOus duties. What Is the matter
with the women? l will tell you.
They are going to their clubs and so
eieties. They have 70 go to their
Shakespeare club, and their Brown
ing club, and their Tennyson club. 1t
ISN'T so bad for them to go TO the
Browning club because If they ever
get SO they can understand him the
only reason can be tina. they have
been hard at work studying him To
know Browning one must study and
work hard, and even then the chanc-
es are If you ever meet him, and tell
aim the meaning of something he has
written, he will not understand you
If you give him your Interpretation
Of what he has written. the thought
you express viii probably never have
occurred to him. But why organize
Shakespeare, or Browning or Tenny-
eon clubs? You never heard of a Da-
vid club or a Paul club or a Mark
cub. defy the combined genluses
of the world 10 put all they have ev
er written tcgether and rival with the
beauties OF the poetry in the book of
David
Now, during our recent conference
in North Carolina Bishop Cheshire OF
the Episcopal church came before us
and made all address upon that fear
full evil Of divorce Why was Il nee
essary? Let me say TO the women
and never discount women, many
say tha. ! praise them too much
they become unmanageahle az home
But | want TO say seriously that your
clubs and federations of clubs and
societies for the study of things, are
going to be your ruin. If you keep
on excluding your husbands and cons
and meet behind closed doors by gas
light without a male present, you
need NOT be surprised If the men go
to their cubs and their saloons.
"oh. your tet-a-tetes and your func
tions-functions." exclaimed Bishop
Duncan in a burst of sarcasm
"As lorg as you insist upon giving
functions you need not be surprised
if the men become Elks and join the
clubs"
The bishop then told of the evils of
card-playing and winedrinking at
these functions" and illustrated
with the story of gambler who died
drunk and who had first learned to
gamble in his mothers parlcr b.
playing for a cut-glass vase and who
had frs learned TO drink At 'fu1c-
tion" given bv his mother.
you can call il a cut-glass func-
tion if you want to- said the bishop
but the devil calls it gambling.
$50 docs the law" interrupted one
of the ministers from the floor
who enforces i.?' asked the bish-
op quickly, looking in the direction
from whore came the interruption.
They made show OF enforcing
the law by arrestirg a crap game and
the newspapers are full OF the spien
dld efforts Of the officers TO break
~ gambling bur ail the while the
oHt-gjsss women coatinue. Keep i
40. vou women, and you VIII see here
in Georgia what I saw recently IN
Butte. Mont | saw a saloon with
side door to il marked Ladies En-
trance. Think of it. An entrance for
ladies'