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Show Miss Clara Morris, in her reply through the press to the stricture of Rev. Mr. Talmage on the theatrical profession, saya: I do rot say we &ru aiiRels far from it. Wehnviisomo vury dark couii'lcxbin.'. sluvp among us, Wut tlio itov T. JJe Witt Talinage's imifeiiion can liirni h a "lio-laiid "lio-laiid for an Oliver" every tiuu'. Wc area law-ab thug, Gi'il-.'ca' ing. .-c-f-eu-laiitiiig p'Ople, and our wive? and mothers whi Lvar comparison wit!) thoe nf any class of people iu the world. Tticre U hardly an autre?? on tho stugo but has sotr.u utiu to j support futiior, mother, sistyr or cliild, sinnuonc and I never knew one to do her duty unwillingly. Miss Clara Bays the stage i no worse than it was centuries ago, The actors simply hold the mirror, aud it reflects the vices and the virtues uf the age, and she asks Mr. Ta Imago il he has not in his pulpit ministrations made vice more attractive than virtue, vir-tue, adding: I am gifted with the tiiiml amount of sensibility and a fair sense of tho fitness of things, olid 1 have pr ijed many a vcar to the same God the Kev. T. Do Wi'lt Tal-mago Tal-mago worships, yet have had n line inner voice denounee me as unfit o to kneel, because of my beirg an Bctn |