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Show Tab Boy Protlcm The Whole Common-sense Gospel of the Movement By Alice Katunrlne Fallows asas M.Y a shurt time ogo, a minister of the advance-guard In aortal O Ideas, who has a pariah house In one of the must crowded blocks of New York, wus eiulsiulug. his work to a visitor Interested In the boy problem. "We have a cliilirooui," he said, "where our older boya and men play pool or billiards. or have any game of curds thut they I I - like that Is not gambling." "jLTiji T,,e lHor, whose religious Ideas had not been revised since " tho rigid dnys of her youtli, gasped. "You don't mean that you admit those abominations under the wing of the church." she asked. 'In the shadow of the ssucluary, one might say?" "Certainly, niuilnui." waa tho answer. "Wo think the devil hus had a monopoly of these amusements Inns enough. They are harmless In themselves. them-selves. The saloon used them as a bait for drunkenness and vice. We use them to tempt hoys hack to morality. You can't fight a devil who offers shelter, light, warmth, and comfort to those who bave none, with good advice aud tracts on a cold street comer." In this one nenU'U.w Is the whole eomuion sense gospel of the new movementto move-mentto tuke a boy us he la, not as ut ought to be, and to give blm whut be lacks. Century. |