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Muscle Mad

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 22, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 12.

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Muscle Mad.

The present tendency of this "Christian nation" is well expressed by the first line of an article in a Sunday newspaper. That line is,
"Society is muscle mad."
The Four Hundred of New York are all agog with admiration over the brawn of the strong man Sandow. To witness the fight in Jacksonville, Fla., between two famous bruisers, 250 boxes, averaging four seats to the box, have been sold, it is reported, for $20 each, or $20,000 for the 250 boxes. A town in the suffering State of Colorado pledges $40,000 purse if the fight can be held there. Disgraceful as are these "glove exhibitions," football is becoming worse, and over this brutal contest between muddy bruisers great crowds of the elite of the land lose their senses. Meanwhile thousands are dying in this "Christian nation"—physically and spiritually dying—for the want of necessary food. How these things ought to stir every Christian's heart to labor for the Master!