Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-01-20
CARDS, THEATRE
and THE DANCE
Evangelist Makes Severe
Arrangement of all
Three.
Gard Table but the kindsra artsn Of
ambIine"-Theaters and Dane.
ing Hs Calls "lnfernal
Business"

AM. T.. cHurcn last nlent ana II Is evil
dent If there is ever to be another
meeting in Lewiston In the same pro-
portions a new and larger edifice will
have to be erected. 1t is understood
that steps in that direction are already
being taken.
Mr.. Custer said last night that he
was proud of Lewiston. that it had
paid all bills without any collections
this week. and that Sunday would be
given to the remuneration Of Mr.. Bas-
kerville.
The sermon was on 1.-The Card Table,
the Theatre and the Dance" Most of
the time was devoted to the first and
the last subject. Mr.. Baskerville said
about the theatre that taking out a
few Shakesperian plots with genius in
them and influence for good there are a
lot of trashy, flimsy immoral and some
nasty plays without any genius or any
influence for God or morality. Real
honesty and morality" said he. "are
laughed att Religion is sneered at, and
mostly fallen women and fallen men do
the performing"
kindergarten to Gambling.
In relation to the card table he said
THE parlor card path and the So
ciety occasion with cards and the card
game in the home are the kindergarten
to the saloon and the gambling den.
Boys learn how to beat others for fun
in the home. then they go out and beat
others for something more than fun in
the saloon
Gambling is criminal according to
law. 1t matters not where it takes
place. You society women come to me
and YOU want me to give it to the old
gamblers and scorch them. tell you
will begin with you for you are gam
blers as much as they are.
"A young man had his mother come
home one night all out of sorts because
she did not win the cut glass bowl
valued, at $40 which a lot of gambling
women had put up in society home,
and he pulled a $50 gold piece out of his
pocket and said: Here. mother is 500
that l won down in the saloon gam
bling. and she saw the point. Poor
weak thing,
Talk about the elite: yes, they are
elite, they are the breeders of crime
and debauchery and they ruin infinite
ly more than the downright saloon man
or the gambler for they SOW the seeds
where these will do the most harm. and
where it Is hardest to counteract them
O. the shame of this. The devil Is not
in the cards. but he gets into the one
who shuffles them in double quick or
der. Quit the Internal thing at once
and be something for God"
They All Oppose It.
Mr. Baskerville. having been a promi-
nent pastor of the NJ. F.. church in
Madison and in Detroit, has studied the
matter fully and having held services
in all denominations and for all de-
nominations. declared last night that
it is mistake to suppose that any de-
nomination is in favor of these things
He read largely from synods. confer
ences and leading men Of all denomi-
nations. proving that all are against it
and he said it Is a shame for any per-
son to have so little honor or sense of
right as to want to unite with church
where these things are allowed when
the same church at large is against
them.
80. be something" declared the
speaker, IF you are going to be. a
Christian. The world expects you to be
better than that. You can be a Chris
tian only as you are different from the
sinner in what you say, in where you
go. in what you do and If you say and
do and go where the downright sinner
goes then you are downright hypo-
critic.
"The dance has this against it, that
while all really religious people i'm all
denominations are against it and while
sinners themselves say their conscience
says a Christian out not to go. the
thing does infinite harm. How many
divorces has it brought about? What
infinite harm has it not done What
lives has it not wrecked. How hard to
hold up in virtue after having been
squeezed by some rotten wretch in the
waltz. / looked in at a hotel dance
once and could not tell whethe there
were two or one so close We're they to-
gether The warm embrace. the darts
of animal electricity. the hugelng to
music. the holding closer and closer
while sweating and FACILITATING in
heart and in all physical form increas-
ing that very passion and cultivating
it until It has developed beyond all pro-
portion. Great Cod what do you
mean
Severely Arraigns Dancing.
"A LADY, said: % dancing is So de-
lightful: it is SO exhiliratin@,' Yes. it
is delightful: 1t is exhiliratine What
does it delight? What does 1t evhili-
rate? Say. you old bloat. YOU know
what YOU no 70 the dance for. and you
are delighted that women will place
themselves upon your level In the bali
room and will allow YOU to take liber-
lies with them there that YOU never
could take i'm the home or on the street
Quit the Internal business Men are
bad enough without the nakedness and
the hueging and the warmth Of the ball
room. They are hard enough To reach
as it is without being Rugged away
from God by YOU Young ladies. You
have no influence with the world. The
world does not believe IN YOU YOU dis
Grace God and the church when as
member YOU do these thir~s and it
makes not a bit OF differs nee - what
church YOU belong for III are sun
pos~d 10 be Christians Don't have the
childish dishonesty Of hiding behind
some church. Great God male thes"