Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1915-03-05

men that most OF the men who are
|pOwer in the theatrical world hav
climbed to their height.
The only way to reform the theate
is to turn it into something else. Ii
rael Zangwill says that the playwright
gets up his production to satisfy tn
lust OF the age, and not for what goo
1t will do The world.
Archbishop 6 iennen SAID that to g
night after night TO the theater is
mark of decadence. You avoid tn
pest house and leper hospital aid We
| aight after night you'll rush to tn
theater to enjoy the procession Q
moral lepers exposed on the stag,
for the plaudits of the people. Tn
| theater and the church have nothin,
in common. The church gives the PEG
pie what they need The theater give
| them what they want
We shall reap what We SOW Soy
cards, reap gamblers. Sow the danc
and reap brothels and outcasts. Sow
the saloons and reap drunkards, jus
as naturally as the water runs dow
what [ say about the matter. 'Yo,
say: What is the na after with this
preacher, doesn't he believe in amuse
mentS?'
PLAY GOOD GAMES.
What games do I play p
WELL play baseball. or used to, I'm
slowed up now And l play lawn ten
mis-. don't like it so well though, it,.
too 'girly fed , and golf and Gre que
n n oh
'Ycu say what's the difference be
tween the game of cards and game Of
checkers ?
Cards never helped anybody. Card:
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. if you can imagine
that: as between vice and virtue, if
you can imagine that.
Many a boy is inveigled into a
gambling room and listens to the
roulette wheel, the faro bank and the
jasts and the blasphemy and he is re-
minded of home.
what wonderful heritage to be-
qnea'h to boy if he has to go into
Il hell hole like that and have it re-
mind him of home, and the fact that
he was taught at home. Men who
have heen spending their funds and
lives to ferret those things out, tell US
that nine-tenths of the gamblers are
taught in their homes by their mothers
and SO per cert. by Christian people.
SOME COLLEGE TRAINING.
i was in a town in Iowa preaching
where some fellows just home from
college had rented some rooms and
lied them clubrooms. There is as
much heightened cussedness behind
the name of club as there is behind
any institution in the country. TheT
had a wheezy piano there and were
playing cards and had girls in the
place. The merchants would not en-
ptoy any of these youths. so they came
to me and said (: 'Mr. Sunday, can t
you stop it 2
I found that out of fifteen young
fellows that composed the club thir-
teen came from Christian homes, and
all but one had been taught to play
cards by his mother.
"A man in Chicago in the Methodist
Siihi vi "lo ehibS liouid thO SOhhtif
visiting prisons. and woman cane
to him end said Are you going to
Auburn Penitentiary VIII you take
this and give it to my son 2
This happened in the Moody
Church, 10 Chicago. He said he was
She asked him if he would see her
boy there and give him a package
He said he would.
when he reached the prison he saw
the young man and handed him the
picture and said L saw your mother
and she asked me TO bring you this. >
He looked at it and said 4: That is
mother There are wrinkles in her
face not there the last time | saw her.
Yes. he said, your mother does
look aged Probably it's because of
worry, because of worrying over you
what did mother ssv p he said
Why, she said to give you this
with her love
CURSES HIS MOTHER.
And the young man took the pic
ture, wrapped it up. handed it back
to the minister, and said You take
that picture back and give it to my
mother, and tell her, damn her. l
never want to see her face again. She
taught me to play cards, and | killed
a man at a gambling table. and am
serving fifteen years to pay 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 it, so that
might be accepted at social affairs.
Then the passion seized me and l be-
came a gambler Now I'm here Now
she has the audacity to send me her
picture, after she pushed me behind
the prison bars.
Il want nothing to do with her
Aud with that he dismissed the man
and asked the warden to look him up
Il believe more people 5ackslide on
account of the cards and dances than
they do through the saloon.
GAMBLING IS GAMBLING.
"A seemingly estimable woman will
tear and snooze and pout through an
afternoon. What for? mean the
diamond wearing bunch the automo
bile gang !; the silkgowned-that's
the bunch. She can take home d
dinky cream pitcher, whisk broom
or pair of silk stockings l have
more respect for the professions
gambler than l have for the church
member who plays cards The ore is
openly gambler. The other is 6
gambler and pretends to be decent
The dance is the dry-rot, the tin
1erbox of society. | always though
| it was big nuisance 60 gallop mile
or two just to get a hug or two a
dancing church member is never {
soul winning church membe" SOM
of you girls say 'Good-by, Lord
] have to go to the dance with this
ddde I'm sorry
There is nothing so tame as to asl
a fellow to play cards for the fun o
it when he is used to sky limit.
1T does not make any differenc
whether it is penny-ante or SIX
limit. So we have progressive euchre
and lots of church members 10 Phila
delphia have cards on their table a
often as food.
| L hear some churches have bee
having more card parties than praye
meetings If you have Bible and
deck OF cards in your home, thro
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