Show AGAINST CRYING EVILS the now famous seely incident in now new york when society swells paid soubrettes rettea for dancing at a dinner party in on n almost nude cude condition reveals to teachers of morality partially at least we condition toward which modern society to li staking slaking and some of them have hare lifted a warning voice against the peril approaching approach log win nation unless a halt to 1 called before long among these preachers prea ohen of repentance Is ie mr moody in a sermon held bela at the academy of music now new york he did not beel hesitate tato to say bay that the nation Is decaying we are go ing the way of babylon and nineveh and rome borne and we are going down dawn under the polite name of art 01 he then suggested that all indecent pictures sad and statues be gathered up and set fire are to whit la Is needed hooded JI I he argued la is to keep beep the winds of youth from dwelling un on evil it if you have nude pictures on the tb walls walla of your pour homes go and tear them down smash them to ulecee make a bonfire of them hem and it if there la in any city on this side aide of babylon wat bat needs needa it it in ie now new york the way to begin bagi a it la Is to got get all the be pictures pio turea that are lewd in one hugs huge pile tear rich paintings palo tinga from your walla wails and from the art galleries collect the newspapers new papers in which are portraits port raita of the nude and make of ef all of them a huge bonfire in fifth avenue 21 another noted evangelist takes up the cudgel in a similar manner speaking Speak inu about pugilism this gentle man that in the latter days day of what we are often pleaded to call an enlightened century on the most famous street inobe in the leading city on the Amer american loan continents continent it should be lawful to slug a man to death for the amusement of men who pay ao much a head to see the show is horrible and revolting in the extreme it if these two men had met on the street outside of their own motion and fought and one had died the survivor would have been held guilty of manslaughter and sent to the abe penitentiary but under the peculiar refinements of brutality in our law this kind of killing is given over by license to special societies who make money out of the exhibition can it be that we have got so accustomed to noel seeing killing kimlung done by law under the lioen licensed liquor saloon that we are now transferring it to other departments he then refers to the he seely beely incident in the following language if this vile revel had been given in some low dance house by some ignorant thug who know knew no better one would understand it but the horrible thing of it all JR is that it was waa given by a man who claims to be a gentleman and his big guests greets were men of education and travel men of large wealth and high social standing many of them were men of family and influence in the community Is this all our colleg eq oan can do for us Is ig this the result of our boasted social advancement and refined culture think of our oar great publishing houses and commercial interests inte in the hands of such men whose ideal way of having a good time is a least where according to the statement of the host himself the songs sung aung the dance performed the exposure of person and the whole affair were base I 1 low vulgar and sensual and the boft shocking thing about it all is that these men seemed to be so far depraved in their tastes that they have not the grace to be asham ashamed ad of it it la Is certainly encouraging to find an awakening sense of duty duly on the part of influential men to cry out th the evils of the age this fact alone suggests hope for a better condition at the same game time it must be pointed out that no halt half measures however earn eare est can succeed the white washing of the sepulchers does not remove their repulsive contents the cutting of the limbs of the tree only results in ila amore a more abundant growth weeding is in ineffective unless the roots are pulled out and sin min can not be conquered by curtailing its ita visible manifestations mr moody may burn burls every objectionable objection able picture and status in now new york but as long as a religion is a a form without the divine power immorality will flourish ani spread as it is doing now notwithstanding efforts of a reformatory nature what now new york needs what the world needs Is new we life from on high imparted to individuals and through them to the educational social political and institutions it is not reformation but regeneration that Is the great need of the hour and this bis can be effected affected only through the power of the almighty spirit who brought life and order out of chaos in the begin beginning Ding of creat creation iop |