The Christian Statesman of December 9 rails out in the interests of "purity" against an indecent dance, tolerated in Chicago, but forbidden in New York. On the claim by the proprietor of the thing that the dance was of a "religious character" in the Orient, the Statesman remarks, "Yes, a part of the worship of Venus, of which prostitution is also a part." And yet this very worship finds some part in all these various great historic religions of the world. And listen, there is a worse part of it still connected with this worship of nature—yet worse than that—which a greater part of Christianity wittingly and unwittingly holds to-day. Worse than the image of jealousy, worse than the worship of beasts and creeping things, worse than the longing for Tammuz (or Adonis, the paramour of Venus), was the worshiping of the sun with the face to the East, turning the back upon the Lord. Sunday comes from the sun worship of the past. Let Christians make thorough work.