T HE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S 855 through prayer and the shedding of blood, two men were found who for filthy lucre’s sake were willing to make a spectacle of themselves at so much a head to 90,000 people. They called it a fight, but it was a slugging match. We do not allow chicken fights, or dog fights, or bull fights, in our country. When two men engage in a fist fight on the street they are arrested, jailed and fined. But these two thing's in human form battered and banged each other until one was knocked out. There may have been something heroic in the combats of the gladiators of old, but who would deign to call this butcher business heroic? And the 90,000 people, including many beings wearing feminine apparel (not women, —our mothers were women, noble women, glorious women, with hearts and souls, with Bibles and prayers, with minds and mother hearts), paid the price, for ten m inutes of the most inhuman, degrading, degenerating, de basing performance ever enacted. Men travelled across the continent and wagered their money. Two hundred Frenchmen, coming from France, were too late for the fray, only coming in sight of the land. Newspapers gave millions of columns of their space for days in advance to the news of the coming “ nose-battering.” One of the contestants was housed with a millionaire over night, in preparation for the event. Our country and the State of New Jersey made $320,000.00 out of the game. What will our government do with the money? We would like to have our disabled soldiers have that much but it would be a disgrace to those real heroes to use that kind of money in their behalf. Better use it for running, down bandits and booze-fighters. And our flag—dear old' flag—we hope they did not disgrace you by dis playing your blood-striped folds over such a den of iniquity. Ninety thou sand beings,—black and white, red and yellow, having a ten minutes’ spurt at*what they called sport. Great country this! 'Evidently we need less politics, less pandering to the pit, less putrid pugilism; and a little more wholesome living. The gate receipts amounting to one million, six hundred thousand dollars, would have built some splendid structures for our heroes, but would the kind of people who spent ten minutes at the bloody bout de liver their dollars? T. 0. H. STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT In the July and August numbers of The King’s Business we have called attention to the church conditions in our beloved land. We have given the figures showing that there are morp than fifty thousand vacant churches in our country, and more than twenty-five thousand churches which were better vacant than to have in thei^..pulpits men who handle the Word of God deceitfully, fooling the people with their false and fanciful interpreta tions of the Word. We have sought to awaken deep conviction concerning the peril which confronts-us,—a peril far more dangerous than any which we have as yet faced. Unless the men of our evangelical churches wake up, brush the cob webs from their eyes, stand on both feet and call a halt to the present pussy-
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