I say that Christian people and members of churches have no right to indulge their selfish pleasures to this extent in these ways.

I know that Christ would not approve of it." "You think he would not, Philip." "No, I know he would not.

There is not a particle of doubt in my mind about it.

What right has a disciple of Jesus Christ to spend for the gratification of his physical aesthetic pleasures money which ought to be feeding the hungry bodies of men or providing some useful necessary labor for their activity ?--I mean, of course, the gratification of those senses which a man can live without.

In this age of the world society ought to dispense with some of its accustomed pleasures and deny itself for the sake of the great suffering, needy world.