Gored to Make a Spanish Holiday
"Butchered to make a Roman holiday," it was said of the gladiators in the palmy days of Rome. "Gored to make a Spanish holiday," is what may be said of the toreadores (bull fighters) of Spain. A recent dispatch from Madrid tells of the death of a popular toreador, gored by a vicious bull, in the presence of thousands of spectators, gathered to witness the bloody exhibition. The bull had already killed four horses, and his next victim was El Espatro, whose abdomen was torn open almost up to the chest by one of the brute's horns, death following immediately. Notwithstanding this sickening spectacle, the dead was removed, and the fight went gayly on. Fifteen horses were killed, two toreadores were greatly bruised. All this, witnessed by 10,000 "Christians"(?) on Sunday, in "Christian"(?) Catholic Spain! And what better are the prize fights and dog fights, the "perfect man" and lion fiascos, and the college hazings of our own "Christian nation"? Human nature is the same as in the palmy days of Rome. A knowledge of Christ and Christianity will not save men; they must know Christ, and the power of his grace, in the inner life.