8/19 Instead of that, the members of the very Church of Christ on earth spend more in a single evening's entertainment for people who don't need it than they give to the salvation of men in a whole year. I protest out of the soul that God gave me against such wicked selfishness. And I will protest if society spurn me from it as a bigot, a puritan, and a boor. For society in Christian America is not Christian in this matter--no, not after the Christianity of Christ!" "What can you do about it, Philip ?" His wife asked the question sadly. And a presentiment of evil would, in spite of her naturally cheery disposition, cling to her whenever she considered Philip and his work. |