MOODY ON CHURCH FAIRS

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 11, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 19.

MOODY ON CHURCH FAIRS.

I am a sworn enemy to them, I never knew one yet but the devil got in before we got through. Just conceive for a moment Paul going down to Corinth to open a fair. God's people have money enough; they don't want to go into the world to get it. There was a time when the church was trying to get out of the world, but now the world has come into the church.

A young lady is put behind a table to draw young people by her beauty. I don't know when I was more mortified than by an advertisement of a church fair in the West, where it was said that any young man could come in and take a kiss from the handsomest woman at the fair for twenty-five cents. I hope the time is come when we shall be rid of these abominations. If we cannot get churches without fairs, let us get along without churches. It would be a good deal better to preach in the streets than to get a church put up in that way.