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REV. A, G. SCHULER
ON AMUSEMENTS,
He Makes Some Plain Statements
In His Efforts to Show Some
of The Evils of Today.
Rev. A. C. Shuler, pastor of the
Bukhead and Greshamville Baptist
churches, has written an article on
amusements, new and old, which we
publish below:
Amusements of a questionable char¬
acter, mechanical devices that help
to foster a spirit to gamble should be
avoided by all professed Christians.
We have had it in mind to speak
out on this subject for some time, but
have waited for some of our ideas to
thoroughly materialize before doing
so.
The devil is using every means and
device known to his infernal ingenu¬
ity to catch men; to get hold of the
young lives of our boys and girls and
forever dwarf their possibilities for
good.
We Christians tolerate a great many
sinful things, not for once realizing
how damnable they are in their influ¬
ence for evil. Our young people are
the hope of the church and the state.
That’s why good men are so con¬
cerned about their lives.
And, too, they are going to engage
in some sort of amusement, some sort
of entertainment, and we think it
right that they should, if they care to
do so.
But “there is a way that seemeth
right unto a man, and the end thereof
is death.”
There are various amusements and
evii practices tolerated by the Chris¬
tian church to-day which we think
the Lord Himself can’t approve, and
said toleration is resulting in dwarfed,
powerless, and indifferent Christian
lines.
The tendency of this age is to get
through life as easily as possible; to
get money and gratify our selfish de¬
sires regardless of how we do it.
The only antidote for such a spirit
is Christian education and religion.
If the influences of the church and
our Christian civilization are not
brought into action to check and
counteract such baneful effects, it
doesn’t take a prophet to forecast re¬
sults.
Some of the most common forms of
sin to-day, looked upon by many as
mere “pastime and entertainment,”
are nothing less than stepping stones
which lead on and on, growing more
destructive with every step, until the
human heart becomes so steeped in
sin that it is a miracle, indeed, for it
$ver to respond to holy influences and
break away from the old life.
From the most accurate figures ob¬
tainable, we preach to sixteen or
seventeen hundred different people.
They are looking to us for leadership
in spiritual things; to be taught upon
all subjects pertaining to the Christian
life and service.
So, true to ourselves and to them,
we must be frank, open and honest,
“instant in season and out of season,”
speaking in love and in patience.
We want to have a little talk
some of our folks about dancing.
Some say its a safe amusement,
are undecided and often ask us
we think about it. We are
somewhat that the Christian
ask such a question.
We lay down one rule, one test,
be applied to all forms of
of questionable character, and it
this: In every instance of
Rev. A. C. Schuler, of Buckhead Baptist Church, Who Conducted
Such a Stirring Revival at Monroe Recently".
daughter of respected and well-to-do
parents. They wish to bestow upon
her every social grace and accomplish¬
ment which modern society demands.
So when it is announced that there is
going to be a dancing school, they
decide she must enjoy the “advan¬
tage” along side of her friends.
At first she seems shocked at the
manner he embraces her to teach her
to waltz. It is her first experience in
the arms of a strange man, and in her
natural modesty, she shrinks from so
familiar a touch. It brings a flush of
indignation to her cheek, as she
thinks of the indecent position as¬ in
sumed in taking her first lessons
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doubt as to the righteousness or un¬
righteousness of the thing, be good
enough, loyal enough to your Lord to
give Him the benefit of the doubt.
Do this and you will hardly ever go
wrong. The Christian should never
do, or take part in anything, in which
he can’t have a clear conscience be¬
fore God and man.
Not long since a friend of mine, who
lives in one of our small towns, rot
far away, said to me, “We are going
to have a dancing school for a few
days; a man by the name of--is
here to teach us.”
We learned afterwards that many
church people patronized the school,
and that it did a rushing business for
several days. We are not sure, how
ever, that a single minister of that
town ever opened his mouth against
the thing-not surprised though-for
all over this country are preachers
too little and pevish, too cowardly to
be reverred as God’s ministers.
They’ve got one eye eye on God and
the other on some rich man, or some
fashionable church, while the devil
and his agents lure the world on to
hell.
Think of a beautiful girl. She is the
waltzing. But she says to herself:;
“This is the position every one must j
take who waltzes in the most up-to- I
date and approved style—church
members and all—so of course its no
harm for me”—She has thus perform¬
ed the first act of the drama, which is
to have such a tragic ending, in cast¬
ing aside that delicate God-given in¬
stinct which should be the guide to
every pure woman in such matters.
She is fastoverc ming herdelicaey;
becomes very popular in a “certain
set;” the more profitable things lose
all attractions for her; her chief read¬
ing is the newspapers and trashy nov¬
I els; and after all she is not to blame
j < ’ or
'
^he’s all changed now. the cneeks
,
i ^ iave lost their rosy hue and the eyes
their sparkle. She goes from had to
worse, and you can draw on your im
agination for the climax of the awful
.
j tragedy.
j But the oddest of it all is that dur
hi S all those months and years of her
sweet, young life, her pastor “could
see no harm in hanging.”
Some contend there is no harm in
parlor dancing. How many parents
are able to restrict their children to
parlor dancing only? Not one in ten
thousand. Dancing is too fascinating
and they who were first content with
parlor dancing, want something else,
and will, in order to get what they
want, go almost to any place.
The safe side is the best side. Teach
them from little tots, (oh, here’s the
trouble: our children are not taught,)
thus keeping them from taking the
first step to ruin, and they can never
take the last.
Where did the majority" of drunkards
take their first drink? Where did the
gambler play" his first card? Where
did three-fourths of the women, who
are today living a life of shame, have
a man’s arm clasped about them for
the first time?
The first drink of the drunkard was
just a social glass. The first game of
the gambler was just a social game.
And three-fourths of the out-easts had
a man’s arm about them for the first
time when they were young girls at a
social dance.
To cure a disease, it becomes ne¬
cessary to remove the cause. To stop
the great tide of sin, we must begin
at its source. We should not encour¬
age among our children games of
chance or any T sortof device that tends
to foster a spirit to gamble.
We can’t always foresee the evil
these things lead to, but one thing we
know: they will lead to nothing good.
We know fathers who play cards
and gamble, just to be social, just to
be a “good fellow,” and in this way
are leading their own boys, and their
neignbors’ boys, on and on to dissipa¬
tion and ruin.
What will the harvest be? is a ques¬
tion we want you to answer.
Can we blame a boy who leads a
life of sin to eternal ruin, if his father
and his father’s friends (so-called)
live such lives before them? As we
have already said, our children are
going to do something for their en
tertainment, and its right that they
should.
By all means let them have a good
time, for they- are going to be child
ren and young people only once in
life. Don’t keep them shut in at
home with no place to go and noth
ing to enjoy-. As many young people
are started on the road to ruin in this
way as in any other. Why, some
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girls go to Sunday school and
meeting.
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and to act the crank.
Provide amusements of the right
for your children, sympathize
them, love them and confide in
and in doing this you may be
the scalding tear, the hopeless
of many parents on account
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