New-York tribune., 1920-03-12
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zone Of our young women" writes
DR.. John Roach Straton in his sermon
"Church Versus Stage" "who has be-
como very active in church work and
soul-saving efforts, said to me recent
ly: I have always had conscience on
the subject of going to the theater, be-
cause every time I attended the ques-
tlon would come to my mind, Gould l
have invited Jesus here with me?
Would I feel entirely comfortable if
Ho were sitting by my side as my
guest? 2" And sometimes a tinge of
shame would come to my cheek because
of something l was seeing or hearing
on the stage; and the conviction would
come to my heart that Jesus would not
feel at home and that would have felt
terribly embarrassed if He had been
with me as my guest Then she added,
80, pastor, have given it up. have
no time for such things. I have found
something better to do.' This young
woman then expressed to her pastor
her Willingness to give her life to the
service of Christ as missionary"
Personally, we are always somewhat
shocked whenever anybody takes it
upon himself to predict just what
Christ would do in certain circum-
stances, particularly as that prediction
almost invariably commits him to the
most enthusiastic support Of the pre-
dictors program. Still it might
have been interesting If the young
woman had carried her supposition
still further. For instance, when Or.
John Roach Straton was laundering
from the pulpit that "the morals Of
actors and actresses are deplorably
low" or that "the stage is the only
place where q spot upon woman's
character seems to enhance her nonu-
larity and success" we wonder whether
1t would have been amiss for the young
woman to have asked herself, "Would
Jesus have liked this sermon?"
Within the last four years we have
heard so much of the proud past and
the glorious future of us Anglo-Saxons
1t comes as relief to find W. z. B.
Du Bois writing in his "Darkwater"
(Harcourt, Brace & Howe): $50 with
some circumstance having finally got
ten myself born, with food of negro
blood, strain of French, bit of
Dutch, but, thank God! no ANGLO
Saxon,' l come to the days of my child
hood"
When the trial Of "Jurgen" BEGINS
we trust that there will be an orches-
ira present to play 'The last ruse Of
Sumner"
TO anybody who knows anything
about golf and who enjoys light litera-
ture we recommend Robert Marshall's
Tho Enchanted Golf Clubs" (Stokes).
1t Is merry tale we'll told. In it the
nero, who has never played golf in his
lie, beta the open champion Of Eng
land that he will beat him in a thirtv-
SIX hole match after a single week Of
practice. And he does. 1t is, we need
not add, novel Of the supernatural.
1t rs always painful and thankless
task" writes Harry Merrill Hitchcock.
ito combat any ones prejudices, least
OF all those Of critic, whether Of
baseball. the drama or literature, or
all three. But reading your comments
on Mr. Huneker's lyrical outbursts, in
splred by the art of Mary Garden, I
cannot resist the temptation to inquire
as to your familiarity with Miss Gar
den's repertory. Or have you gained
your own views from conversation with
Mr.. Krehbiel, in whose eyes, as we all
know, Mary Garden is utterly damned :
Nothing but seductionf Laying
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