The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-02-28
SMITH MIsUNDERsTooD US

Some places We have heard OF are having great
success in the organization and maintenance OF q
Sunday school Base Ball League. In Amarillo this
was quite successfully carried last year, and not
only Did it furnish a lot Of good base ball playing
but also il stimulated Sunday School work. and We
are OF the opinion that out OF the several sunday
Schools in Lubbock. several strong teams could be
organized and play matched games at regular IN
Avalanche
The Beacon would look with disfavor on any
kind of Sunday School base ball. This church base
ball playing on Sunday is a subteriuge invented by
the devil himself and il becomes general It means
the breaking down OF all barriers and restraint con
tempating in our laws Tor the prote9noh OF people
who wish to worship on Sunday. People do not
need Sunday base ball. The people have too much
Amusement as il is. Sunday is day OF worship.
set aside by Divine authority, and to break INTO
same by the churches resorting to outdoor sports
instead of indoor worship is Perverting the plans
of the Divine law giver. Lubbock does not need
Sunday base BALL Amarillo did not need IL the past
year and to naugurate this past time on Sunday
and make il the general custom will do a great deal
to break down religious worship. and drive the
people further away from good morals God knows
the country is going fast enough the way It Is. and
has departed for enough from religious plety and
morals practced by our fathers it is rather than
to introduce Sunday base ball in the name OF the
church We are surprised that such writers and
-hurchmen as lanes l.. Dow. OF the Avalanche, and
las l. Pope OF the Amarillo News. would lend en-
dorsement to a general dissertation OF the Lord s
Day We know both these men. and their good
ness of heart and religious piety and il is distressing
that they should be caught in the meshes OF Sunday
dissertation. Playing base ball on Sunday is about
on par with the suggestion recently by woman m
one Of our cities that dances be given in our churches
in order to check the public dance. Rather than
to put down the devil. want to invite him
INTO our churches and turn over the work to has
Satanic Majesty in its entirety. What men and
women need to do in this immoral and perverse
generation is to stand out boldly against the evils
that threaten civilization instead OF compromising
with the forces Of sin. The Beacon has little pa
tience with the man or woman that compromises
with sin. Christian men and women should hight
the dance straight from the shoulder. They should
show no quarters to Sunday base ball and other
forms of Lords Day dissertations. instead OF com
promising with these evils We shuold never com
promise with error The people need religious
training instead OF amusement. Strike down sun
day as a day of worship and we tear down the
last barrier between and Truth. II We destroy
ord Day religious customs, we have surrendered
bag and baggage to the Devil Boys. do not es-
pouse Sunday base ball, whether in the name OF the
church or otherwise 1t Is dangerous and means the
overthrow Of Sunday day OF spiritual training
The church has for its purpose the spiritual training
of our people. its mission IS not tor the physical
training OF people.--Lockney Beacon.
Amen. Brother Benl We heartily endorse all
YOU have said about Sunday base ball and you have
not said half what you should have. II you really
though that the Avalanche IN any way intimated
that we favored Sunday base ball playing You
certainly misread the clipping from the Avalanche
and we will give you : 900 to find where we ever
advocated base ball playing on sunday We have
written several miles OF editorials against Sunday
base ball games We have spoken boldly from
church pupits and public platforms against IT and
we have not changed minds about IT. We are
against il tooth and toenail first last and all the
time forever and eternaly, world without end and
forever more. The Beacon cannot lind word IN
the above editorial clipped from the Avalanche
hat even inmates that we favor Sunday games
CT 20 substantate this influence that expected the
sunday School team to play Sunday, and he is
either basey ignorant has taken this opportunity
to place us in a bad light with the people OF the
South Plains. who for the betterment OF the
morals of the country The object of the Sunday
School base ball league is the opposite to what
Smith seems to think Its object is to prevent play
ing on Sunday. and among the rules Of the league
is that no boy who plays Sunday base ball shall
become a member of the team, and playing on
Sunday automatically puts him out OF the team and
another thing. he must show clean record OF at
tendance in his Sunday School if he remains on the
team The games are staged week days, mostly
after work hours. on the long summer days and is
1 the means Of giving the boys much good exercise.
and pleasure as well as lending encouragement 20
them to belong to the Sunday School and make a
GOOD report there We can hardly believe that
Smith understood the attitude We took yet can
not see how he could oonstrue the meaning he has
but we feel that he has done US great injustice,
and shall expect him to make much display oil
correcting this as he has in condemning for the
stand he claims we took. which is absolutely false
We demand that this correction be made in the edi
,or,aI columns of the Beacon Immediately Iol