Show KEEP t = TilE CUILDHEN AWAY There Is 1 a man In this city who calls his namo Oliver and who calls himself on evangelist who every night holds I forth to such audiences as his style of harangue can draw that patentsought to be warned against If grown peo plo please to go to hear such a man that Js their privilege but children should be kept away because much of his talk Is that of a blackguard Ho docs not understand the proprieties of life He uses the name of religion as a license to use language which gentlemen gentle-men would not permit to he spoken In their private houses Tho whole tendency ten-dency of his harangue Is to belittle God and to make the average man think that religion Is simply a game which any mountebank can play We do not mean that an uneducated man cannot be a real evangelist We have I heard an utterly Illiterate slmplemlnd cd old colored man In the simplest and I homeliest phrases deliver a permon as touching as over did Beecher or Tal I mage but when a man talks as he might to Introduce two prlzoflghters to an audience the effect of his talk is not to elevate religion In the eyes of men It Is not calculated to arrest the careless soul It Is not possible that it j could Impress honest hearts We have said the above through a r sense of duty Wo felt It a duty several I sev-eral days ago but thought that the character the mans harangues would f drive his audiences from him We are j I now convinced that there Is a class of people In town who not having the I money for the theater take the first I free show that Is presented and we simply put this out to caution parents against letting their children hear the rant of the ranter I |