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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · September 3, 1867

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 12

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THE THEATRE.

Dr. Rush told a friend that he was once in company with a lady, a professor of religion, who was speaking of the pleasure she anticipated at the theatre in the evening.
“What, madam?” said he, “do you go to the theatre?”
“Yes,” was the reply; “and don’t you go, doctor?”
“No, madam,” said he; “I never go to such places.”
“Why, sir, do you not go? Do you think it sinful?” said she.
He replied, “I will never publish to the world that I think Jesus Christ a bad master, and religion an unsatisfying portion, which I should do, if I went on the Devil’s ground in quest of happiness.”
This argument was short, but conclusive. The lady determined not to go.