The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-02-02


yival under the direction OF DIR. Honey
we'll and mis- assistants are ones OF ex'
treme joy and satisfaction not only to
the promoters of the campaign but to
the hundreds who have confessed their
sins and decided to live better lives, and
untold benefits will undoubtedly result
for Owosso and Shiawassee county in
the results obtained. Never before
have the people of this county taken
such an interest in spiritual matters,
and many who had spurned all relig-
ious teachings. others who were in
different and others who were half
hearted will now become workers in
the churches, and in other ways that
will benefit the whole community.
Friday evening DR.. Honeywell's S
sermon on amusements drew the larg-
est crowd Of the campaign to the tab
ernacle, which heard the most forceful
denunciation of dancing, card playing
and theatres ever heard in Owosso or
Shiawassee county. The few quota
tions from his statements will give an
idea of his stand on these amuse-
ments:
"You Christians ask, Am / my
sisters keeper?' No, if in the face
of the awful facts, my dear Chris
tians, facts proven by statistics, you
still champion the dance, you are not
your sisters keeper. You are your
sister s murderer. The dance is simp-
ly the immoral graveyard of the fall
en- woman.
s'The dance is the immoral grave
yard of women. -
Three-fourths of the women that
fall get their start to life of shame
on the ball room floor. ~
"No jury in the world would con-
vict husband who killed a man that
was found taking the same liberty
with woman in a parlor of the home
that he does on the ball room floor.
"The dance is the most immoral
institution on Gods footstool. What
Nthe saloon is to men, the dance hall is
to women.
81 would rather be a chambermaid
at livery stable than caller at u
country dance. All dances look alike
to me.
They dance for the hing. l don It
want to have to gallop mile or two
for hug. Do you, boys?
"The dress, or rather the undress
of some women on the ball room floor
is enough to cause a man to catch
cold and have pneumonia. Men don It
say, 'Wasn t it a good dance9' They
say, Wasn't she a daisy'
"Men would rather saw cord wood
all night with lantern than to dance
with their wives.
"Thackery said, the man who
dances is an ass I have too much
respect for the donkey to say that.
cit is an easy road from the ball
room to hell.
"Eighty per cent of the people on
the stage are immoral. Nat Goodwin,
five times married and four times di-
vorced, is a leading actor of today.
off people knew what went on be-
hind the curtains, the actors would
show to empty seats. Immoral wo-
men arc big drawing cards at theatres.
"Sow card tables in the home and
you will reap gamblers. Nine-tenths
Of all the gamblers learned to play
the game at home. The parlor card
table is the Kindergarten of the gamb-
ler's hell.
"The deck Of cards is the gamblers
tools. Nine-tenthsSof all the gamb-
ling is done with deck of cards.
"What is the difference whether
women play for a $50 cut glass dish
or play for the 500 to buy cut glass
dish? Women, who play for prizes,
violate the law of the state.
"Every church except the Mormon,
condemned amusements, such as card
playing, theatres and dances. OF the
three, the dance of modern society is
the most unholy. T
Sunday afternoon and evening SER
vices at the tabernacle were attended
by unusual crowds and many at each
service declared their intention of liv-
ing Christian lives. In the afternoon
the third sermon to men had as its
subject, "The Four Square Man"
and was generalization of the life
a man should live to entitle him to
the respect of other men and of God,
declaring that practically all the
world s great men were Christians.
In the evening the subject was the