The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-13
ARRAIGNED BY
 DIR. TORREY Dancing and Theatre going Condemned. SAYS STAGE wREcKs HOMES Hardest Fight of the Present Time
 Is for Purity. The Evaaseli.t Never See. Pack of Card. without . Heart-sche--
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Dancing, card-playing. theatre -so- ,ngr-eysn msrs yen tobacco using christisns afternoon sermon yesterday. Ee said that he used to dance; that he used to ssamnis, ssr ana that he was once 3 thea and that sstherefore. he spoke from aD : solute Knowledge when he condemned, n, 70 say th least vigorous language.
 or theatre. going. he said, in part: wreck American homes than any other in her wes1a son rashsp shsn sss oS sRss s would rather see His cSisiidren % in tSei1 ya spe woIeaos sdss Sn the son stage some p.ys tresses, wish to believe, have high moral ideals. but it Is not what tn ne stage stage might be or ought to De, that you should consider when you think of going to the theatre. hut what the
 He said. farther. that he had read in of the most prominent managers in New York, publicly gave as their opins ion that a censorship of the stage the day are becoming SO vile t He said that he knew thRt an awful pres sure Is brought to. bear on good woe said that number of managers of theatres had come to him after his sermon on this subject and told him snia tnas ne nS mad haS not G gone haik far enough pose the conditions as they. really are. yersation with Beerbohm Tree. the greatest of English actors. who had come to him to protest against hts tirade against theatres, he had come away even more convinced that the real Christians should not attend them--even to see the most moral plays.
 Deneunees Dancing.
 Of dancing he said: "Christian men was 2 Christian then. But there, are some things you, should know and there are some things you dc know ern dancing, as it is, q familiarity of contact Is permitted between the sexes that is not permitted anywhere else under any other conditions in society. After l had preached this sermon once me and said that I had not been fair him what he would do if he saw his wife in the same attitude to q man outside of a ball room, that she held be trouble. He had answered his own question to me. was I fair
 "Oh, if you ladies could only. hear wnat the men say about you after 2 never go to another dance. The hard- est fight that the American young ms1 n,srty of tSSaay S yIS. hSays. F the ght for grsatess o6stseis against the Sli.SS aaSt for for purity snSys,snr that the xoyaang maH has, that no Christian piays Cards for for money. Admitting that the case was harder % to prove against cards than stated, nevertheless. that as card.play- ing in the home leads to states prison and the gambling hell, cards should every mother who wants to save her self future sorroyv, never to let cards be used in her home-above all, never sS sSs sssob h.h her s children ss tSSa SSsc ct once. He said that he had been taught cards at home and it had made
 T never see a pack of cards with out 8 heart-ache." exclaimed pr. Tor rey. The hearts remind me of the broken hearts. that they have caused; spades remind me of the graves they have dug. I say I cannot even sec a describable ioathfng And this in- fernal game Of bridge whist has caused more harm than draw poker"
 Omslaght OR Tobacco.
 Dr. Torroy concluded his talk with vigorous sonslaght on the tobacco habit. He said that q man who smoked, polluted the atmosphere and lutTkhESQ upUn tAG tEtkut8 OK OInekBs He said that man might just as well spit tobacco juice in the drinking water of other people as breathe smoke into the air that others have to breathe. Ee finished by saying that the only proper way for man to smoke is to go into the middle of a ten-acre lot, and then take e bath before he comes outl &
 Before his evening sermon, pr. Tor. rey announced his subjects for the evening sermons next week. He said that they would prove Of especial in- tereet to infidels, agnostics, icono- clasts. atheists and the like. He par ticularly requested the Christians in 1 his audience to bring such professional i and business men of their acQuaint- aflce as come in that category, to the 1 sermon Monday night. He said that l he was perfectly certain that they l would be Interested.
 Monday night, Dr. Torrey will rea- | son why he believes that the Bible is | the Word of God. Tuesday night he | will give five more reasons; Wednesday | night the subject Of the sermon will | be. Hell; It's Certainty" Thursday | night 1t will be, What Sort of a Place | Hell Is, and Who is Going There" and | Road to He'll"
 With five conversions last night, the | number of persons converted by the ] revival so far, passed the 100 mark; | there are now 104 conversions as "a | visible result of the first weeks work. | There will be no meetings held on Sat