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Show js? jg? zr Tib Boy Problem The Whole Common-sense Gospel of the Movement By Alice Katharine Fallows f ' I'Y " "I'ort time ago, n minister of tho advance guard in social I Ideas, who has a parish house lit one of tbo most ciovvdcd blocks ' Vt "f Nuu iork' us exPlll'R l'8 "Mk to a visitor Interested : WL ) J" t'11-' bo) problem "Wo nave a clubrooui," ho snld, "where our older boys nnd 1 I '"en plaj pool or billiards, or bavo auy game of cards that they I 1 t like that Is not gambling " I "ij-T- I T',B Wsitor usc t libelous Ideas hnd not been revised since Siiaiai' the ugid days of her jouth, gasped, "You dou't mean that jou admit those abominations under the wing of the church," she nsked, "In the shadow of the sanctunrj, onu might saj ':" t'ertnlnlj, niudnin," was tho answer. "We think the derll hns hnd n monopol) of these at iiiseuieiits long enough. The) ate harmless In themselves them-selves 'the saloon used them as a halt for drunkenness and vice. Wo use them to tempt bojs back to morality. ou can't light n devil who offers shelter, light, warmth and iiimfort to those who hnve none, with gooil advice and tracts on a cold street corner " In this one senten e Is the whole common sense gospel of tho new movement move-ment to take a bo) as he Is, not us be ought to be, uud to give him what he lucks. Ceuluij. |