The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-05-12
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| But the great service of the day
was at night when DR.. Marshall
preached his famous amusement SER
mon on the little foxes that spoil
the vines. He had his crowd with
him from the first when he graphic
ally described fox hunt in Arkan-
sas with 70 hounds in the pack. "The
first little fox l want to speak to you
about is little gray fox. 1t is per-
sonal pride What you got to be
proud about, you Moscow folk? I
never saw so many people wearing
second hand clothes. A nice new suit,
Ell? Say, an old sheep wore it year
before you got it. That silk waist
came from an old worm that crawled
up mulberry tree and spit it out.
| We have no reason to feel proud. We
need to be on our faces confessing
! Christ Here is a NANCY little fox. 1t
is gossip. Oh, you say that isn't an
amusement Oh, isn't it? You know
that for many of the people there is
nothing so entertaining as to be-
Lord must have run out of tongues
and put wigglers in the mouths of
some and they have been wiggling
ever since. There is another fox and
it is evil thinking. You tell me this
man has just gone bad l know bet
ter. He went bad long time ago
when he began filling his mind with
all the dirty stuff that fills the air"
DR.. Marshal next named the card
game as a destroying fox. "You can't
find a home with family altar and
deck of cards. Praying and card play
ir,o II on tnOQthnr 6nonnn
like me in the morning service with
my long coat but not at night.
A man passed his house and
saw him playing cards Sunday
night and was kept from confessing
Christ. | called the deacon. He tried
to get off my hook | made him
make a confession before the church.
The theatre is another red fox.
don't care if you have minister here
in Moscow who says that the theatre
and the church go hand in hand as
educational institutions. That is
slap at the public school. Your
theatres are educators all right There
is a greater tendency down than up.
The leaders of the movies are them
selves saying that the business is 60
ing to the bad unless the censorship
takes place at production. | know
many of the famous movie stars and
they are living rotten licentious lives
You go to the movies and cry because
some sweet innocent thing is be-
trayed. God bless you many of those
playing these parts are hardened in
SIM" The evangelist then gave list
of famous movie people whose lives
were scarlet. "They often say to me,
Mr.. Marshall you name the dance as
destroying amusement. But the
kind of dances YOU are acquainted
with are different than the select
ones we have here Ours are very
select and altogether proper. II
know the dances from the south seas
to New York." said the evangelist as
he mopped the sweat from his face
and poured his life out in the denun-
citation Of one of the little foxes that |
is damning human life in America. |
II know the dance from the Inaug-
ural ball to the hoe-down on a punch
con floor in Arkansas. You are good |
Americans Put out German flag |
and you will be misunderstood. The
dance is immorality's. flag. You
may go to the dance with pure mo-
tives but if you do you are misun-
derstood. I went to a restaurant af |
ter the service to get bit to eat.
They had a spoon-holder arrange
ment. Some young fellows came in
and occupied the one next to me. They /
came from this select dance the lady
had told me I did not understand.
Then I was busy with my pencil in
taking notes and getting names. 1t
was a psychological study. | took
the very words of the young fellows.
| called the lady and the girls with
the pastor and his wife. | read some
Of the things. The young woman
said, the dirty brutes, we will never
dance with them again Here is
the mother fox of them all. 1t has
two names, pronounced alike but
spelled differently. Irreligion. Ear
religionsD
Dr.. Marshall has his crowd with
him from start to finish. He keeps
them in good humor by the quaint
thrusts and the clever stories. He
explains why he makes people laugh
by saying they have had SO many
sermons poured into their ears, he
wants to get their mouths open with
a laugh SO they will go down their
throats. He reminds the crowd he
loves it, and then with the skill of
physician he proceeds to cut deep. He
IS no unskilled butcher but the in
,isions are intended to reach the seat
IF the malady and result in cure.
Tonight (Monday) he breaches his