Show SALT LAKE LAIE COMES GOMES IN FOR I Rev Herbert E. E Hays Deals With Popular Amusements Without Gloves THEATERS DEGENERATING Physical Contact in Dancing Its Pleasure as Well as-Well Well as Its E Evil Vi I Herbert EX E. Hays pastor o of the Third Presbyterian church preached to a large larg- con congregation re on Sunday evening on the tho subject of or amusements The sermon was taken from tho the text Touch no unclean thing 2 Corinthians Corinth Corinth- ians inns 6 t and was waR in part jart as ns follows fol fol- fol- fol lows We all need recreation We work hard hord and amid worry harder and we e ought to relax We Wc ourselves and our work are bettor better oft off tor br it But wo should make recreation a means rather than an end People who give themselves wholly to society are uro usually o of little account to tho the world worl There is danger dancer that recreation becomes dl dissipation Not ot a gathering but a scattering In d deciding what amusements to engage e In broad principles rather than specific rules should be emphasized Let me suggest a n tt few worth worthy Christian principles The effect a given amusement amusement amusement amuse amuse- ment h has ilas upon our character If I it is unclean we will bo be unclean from In Indulging In- In In it The Tho effect upon our Influence three children were 1 playing near a stream over which lay a log Jog The Tho old oldest cst I walked across and called to tho others I to como come I J can replied the next but tile the little one might falL faiL all The Time kind of or p people ople wo we are brought Into contact contact contact con con- I tact with through the particular amuse amuse- ment meat Men Ien and women not things arc the thc of at most influences s. s good and bad Utah P Peculiar rho Tho time lime money physical effects must also bo lie considered There in Is peculiar situation In ln Utah regarding amusements Thc Tho moral effects of the tho plan lu In operation here con constitute a warning rather than a a. model Th The tad has lian a often proved 0 to tobe tobo oll 11 bo be tile thc Kindergarten c r of the tho gambling hell boll tho the theater might ht have havo proved a power for tor good and pcr perhaps ina In Ina a Q few ew casee hits has but it hn has hns degenerated and Is lit still degenerating and really uplifting uplifting up up- lifting plays are uro growing scarcer career over s. nr Poun ioK In hp A val lust Junt ur tiro common Tho The THo lIn t Unive universally sally ally effect or oC tho the theater upon tile tilo actors actresses tn selves nn and upon Its mo most t constant nt- nt nearly condemns the thing thing- Dancing t An n fit II II Let Lel UH nm consider dancing keeping Limo Hmo to music la Is harmless tI gracefulness Is a a. good timing thing Some Soma dance danco and r ro- ro celto little harm Much depends upon th tile kind o of dances the place and tho the I people But Dut there is ono one thing about time the modern dunce dance which condemns It It namely tho timo contact between tile the sexes which It Involves It would not be lIe dreamed of or In ordinary Catherines and for Cor many this Is not anI only tho the evil It Is time the chief pleasure Dancing limited to one omme sox sex doesn't doesn oe nt t seem to he be popular Dancing la is said I to bo ho the t favorite amusement In brothels Yet et thc the public schools of our city uro miro training tho tile pupils from early I I childhood to engage In this amuse amuse- amuse 1 I m int nt ThE harvest will bo be a n. whirlwind whirl whirl- j wind i I |