The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-21

and 70 to these places it's up to SOU.
But II 10 because Of these / am justf-
fed in preaching the sermon that I
am.
Sarah Bernhard went away from
America with $274.00o at the end OF
q nine-monthS tour, but when n
preacher makes a little money, they
call him q CRATER.
"Cyrus Townsend Brady found only
eight of twenty-one plays that he
would endorse. The only good can
sec you can do with the theater Is to
turn 1t into something else.
TT the church would refuse to pat
ronize the theater, the theater would
be compelled to sweep it's filth from
the stage.
Mark Of Decadence.
TT u upon the charred souls of
women that most OF the men who are
Ia power In the theatrical world have
climbed to their height.
THE only WHY to reform the theater
Is to turn II into something else. Is
rael Zangwill says that the playwright
gets up his production to satisfy the
lust of the age. and not for what good
1t will do the world.
Archbishop Glennen said that TO go
night after night to the theater Is
a mark Of decadence. You avoid the
pest hOuSC anu iCPCI UpsRltdl anu YET
night after night you'll rush to the
theater to enjoy the procession Of
moral lepers exposed on the stage
for the plaudits of the people. The
theater and the church have nothing
In common. The church give the
people what they need. The theater
gives them what they want.
I'VE shall reap what We SOW. Sow
cards. reap gamblers. Sow the dance
and reap brctheIs and outcasts Sow
the saloon and reap drunkards. just
as naturally as the water runs down
hill. defy any one to contradict
what ] say about the matter. You
say: What Is the matter with this
preacher. doesn't he believe in amuse-
ments?'
Play Good Games.
what games do / play?
We'll. play baseball or used to, I'm
slowed up now, And / play lawn ten
mis-, don't like It so well though. it's
too 'girlyfed'; and golf and croquet
and checkers and chess.
You say what's the difference be-
tween the game OF cards a game of
checkers?
Cards never helped anybody. Cards
were invented to amuse an idiotic
King. and until this day they have
not done any better
Just as much difference as between
heaven and hell, IL you can imagine
that; as between vice and virtue, of
you can imagine that.
Many a boy liz inveigled into a
gambling room and listens to the
roulette wheel the faro bank and the
emo and listens to the ribaldry and the
minded Of home.
What q wonderful heritage to be-
queath to boy II he has to go into
q hell hole like that and have 1t re-
mind him of home. and the fact
that he was taught at home Men
who have been spending their funds
and lives to ferret these things out,
tell US that nfne-tenths of the gamb-
lers are taught In thir homes by their
mothers and 80 per cent by Christian
people
Some College Training.
II was in town in Iowa preach
ing where some fellows just home
from college and rented some rooms
and called them clnbrocms. There
10 as much heightened cusse iness be .
mind the narnc % club as there Is
behind any institution in the country
They had wheezy piano there and
were playing cards and had girls in
the place. The merchants would not
employ any OF these youths. SO they
came to me and said: Mr.. Sunday,
can't you stop ite'
II found that GU, of fifteen young
fellows that composed the club thir-
teer came from Christian homes, and
all but one had been taught to PLAY
cards by his mother.
"A man In Chicago in the Methodist
church was going around the country
Visiting prisons. md woman came to
him and said, are you going to Au-
burn Penitentiary? VIII you take this
and give 1t to my son?
This happened In the Moody
Church. In Chicago, He said he was
She asked him If he would see her
boy there and give him package. He
said he would.
when he reached the prison he saw
the younm man and handed him the
picture and said: I saw your mother.
and she asked me to bring you this
He looked at 1t and said. That is
mother. There are wrinkles in her
face not there the last time that /
saw her.
Yes, he said. your mother does
look AGED. Probably it's because of
worry. because of worrying over you"
What did mother say" he said.
Why, she said to give you this
photograph with her love-
Curses His Mother.
And the young man took the pic
ture. wrapped 1t up, handed it back
to the minister. and said: You take
that picture back and give 1t to my
mother. and tell her. damn her.
never want to see her face again.
She taught me to play cards, and /
killed man at a gambling table, and
am serving flfteen years to ray for it.
She learned to play SO that she could
climb few rounds In the social lad
der. Then she made me play, when
cared nothing about II. so that l
might be accepted at social affairs
Then the passion seized me and /
became q gambler. Now I'm here.
Now she has the audacity to send me
her picture after she pushed me be-
hind the prison bars.
Il want nothing to do with her
And with that he dismissed the man
and asked the warden to look him
up.
Il believe more people backslide on
account Of the cards and dances than
they do through the saloon.
Gambling Is Gambling.
"A seemingly estimable woman will
tear and snnoxe and pout through an
afternoon. What for? ! mean the
Giamond-wearing bunch; the automo-
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