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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 21, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 21.

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Church Fairs.

Mr. Moody, at Baltimore, thus paid his compliments to “church fairs”:—
“And there are your grab-bags—your grab-bags! There is too much of this. Your fairs and your bazaars won’t do, and your voting, your casting of ballots for the most popular man, or the most popular woman, just helping along their vanity. It grieves the Spirit; it offends God. They’ve got so far now that for twenty-five cents young men can come in and kiss the handsomest woman in the room. Think of this! Look at the church lotteries going on in New York. Before God, I would rather preach in any barn, or in the most miserable hovel on earth, than within the walls of a church paid for in such a way. What is the use of going to a gambling den when you can have a game of grab with a lady for a partner?”
The words are pertinent, and it is time churches everywhere had put an end to such methods of raising revenues.