Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-07


downfall. Then you would shun the
dance hall. as the monster 1 know II
to be-"
"Be Not Deceived"
Continuing Mr.. Sunday said: 49,.
Gal. vi. z. BE not deceived. God Is
not Knocked, for whatsoever a man
soweth that shall he also reap"
"I know Of no more suitable text in
al the Bible for the subject that
have in mind, and by the presence OF
such a vast audience and by the ex-
pectant look upon your upturned faces
[ am sure that you don't expect me to
utter one word of defense on the
amusement proposition.
1 suppose some may vince at the
painness with which I will speak, but
remember it costs me severe pangs OF
regret to be compelled to do it.
If the ingenious skill Of the devil is
to be defeated there is but one Of two
alternatives open to the man who as
saults the most hell soaked institution
with grit and courage.
Cne of two alternatives. He can
consume his energy and time in talking
about the miner usages or the possible
limits one might go, or he can peel the
bark away and show the thing full of
worm holes and run the risk Of losing
his fair reputation.
I want to say that I have wil'fully
and deliberately and with malice
afore- e-thought, chosen the latter course.
I don't care a rap what you think
about it before / begin or after / am
through. %.
l have never preached this sermon,
or lecture as you may call it, but that
I always feel myself like a man placed
there by society to take revenge for the
thing that society itself has made pos
sible and necessary.
I have a message that burns its way
into your soul, and into my heart. MY
words may be strong, and If they are
YOU must remember they are blood red
with conviction. With the cry of lost
souls ringing inNmy ears, cannot re-
main still. / must cry out.
If can save one from going to hell,
consider myself well paid for all the
yituperation and malediction that you
can hurl against me, because rubbed
it into your pet sins.
Condemned by Human Desires.
Judged in the court of human de-
sires, / might be condemned by every
body that wants to- do 1t, but judged
in the court of human, conscience, and
will receive universal verdict.
We always associate in our minds
certain amusements-the theatre, the
cards and the dance.
While some will justify one, others
will condemn it. Some who play cards
will seek to justify that and condemn
the theater, and those who go to the
theater, may condemn the cards.
In my opinion the theater is OF such
doubtful character that it has been
relagated to the class Of forbidden
amusements.
You know that the theater had
beginning in the church, and was IN
tended to be the handmade of religion.
II produced so much fuss and trouble
that they were compelled to drop 1t.
Unless the theater is redeemed it will
fall by it's own sinking rottenness.
Some of you may vince at the hot
shot am going to pour into you today
but I have no apologies to offer for
anything that may say, for the very
simple reason that the devil has all
kinds of engines employed in scatter
ing seeds of evil through this old world
and if i can only keep you away from
the theater and card playing and the
dance. I will have no kick coming.
Not Against Theater, but its Filth.
I want it distinctly understood that
my scrap is not with the theater as an
institution, but what I am against,
hammer and tongs, are the things that
the theater stands for and the rot and
filth and rubbish and trash that are
spewed out over the stage.
have a clipping here before me; its
from a Denver paper of September 10
In it Anna Held says that the condi-
tions in the theater are such today that
she wouldn't advise any young girl TO
go on the stage, but that she would
advise any young lady to shun the
stage as she would disease or poison.
And Anna Held must know some
thing about the stage. She is one OF
our best known actresses and she has
been mixed up in the sort of shows
that ought to give her the inside of the
business. She says in this clipping
that 7 have before me that theatrical
people, especially in most of the musi-
cal pays, are at the mercy Of the
owners of the theaters and the shows,
and YOU find half a dozen millionaires,
not to mention a bunch Of other rich
men, hanging around the theaters as
angels"
They never make any money on their
ventures and they are always dead
SIRE to back only those shows that are