© = THE KING’S BUSINESS n = Vol. 8 MARCH, 1917 No. 3
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Our attention has been called to the character of some of the notes in Tarbell’s Teachers’ Guide for the Sun- day School Lessons of 1917. This book, in the early issues of former years, was one of the most satisfac
Poisoning the Sunday Schools.
tory books published on the Sunday School Lessons, but Miss Tarbell has gone over pretty thoroughly to the enemy. She has adopted views about the authorship of Isaiah, and regarding the book of Daniel that are entirely unwar ranted mid thoroughly vicious, and she does not hesitate to exploit these views m her Guide. It is now an altogether unsafe Guide. She seqms to think that her views are accepted by the best scholarship. They are views that were very widely held by the destructive critics, but they have been thoroughly •exploded and many who once held them have given them up. The acceptance of her views would lead logically to the discrediting of our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and Miss Tarbell has become an altogether unsafe guide for Sunday School teacheps. The destructive critics are not content with poisoning our theological seminaries, they are now trying to corrupt our Sunday Schools. study. In a recent interview ©n “Night Life in Lon don, General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien says | “At the present moment thou sands of men, who would otherwise be in the fighting line, are physically incapacitated. During the first six months of the war we lost through this cause alone the services of—well, I am not permitted to state exactly how many, but I may say a number equal to quite a big force! Here is an enemy in our midst, sapping and destroying the energy and vitality of thousands of our best men; and yet, in a spirit of mock modesty, we must veil the facts and only whisper the tru th !” The General goes on to blame the stage for much of the evil. He indicates that latitude is degenerating into license, and says: “So much that is lewd, suggestive and excitable prevails.” What General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien says about the stage in England is equally true of the stage in America, and the moving picture stage is worse than the regular stage. Things are put on in moving picture shows that no one would have dared or dreamed of putting on the regular stage. In fact, the overwhelming proportion of the moving picture shows make their appeal to that which is vilest in men and women, and because of the low price of admission these shows are attended by a great company of immature boys and girls. It is impossible to imagine what the result will be in the demoralization of our youth. The stage seems to be going from bad to-worse. Its demoralizing effect upon women and men is evil beyond any thought of those who have not made1 it a Demoralizing Effect of the Theatre. , ,, .
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