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A Theatrical Gospel

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 3, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 2.

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A Theatrical Gospel

A brother has sent us a handbill of a dramatic performance, June 17, in Chelsea, Mass., endorsed by the clergy and press of Boston. Ten prominent clergymen attach their names, on the bill, to a recommendation of the play; and one says, “Let the minister who can write a better sermon than this play, cast the first stone at it, or those who shall present it.” As the people would undoubtedly enjoy plays better than sermons, and they so strongly intimate that plays may be better sermons than what are given as such, would they not be consistent to turn their churches into theaters, give up preaching, and give us a theatrical gospel?