There Are Better Things by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 26, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 46.

There Are Better Things

By Editor

There Are Better Things.—A correspondent sends us the following, and vouches for its accuracy. We omit the name of the church, however, which publishes the advertisement:

"Hallowe'en Social "Friday evening, November 1, in the — church basement. "The witches and hobgoblins will all be there, riding on broomsticks. Lunch served for 1c a snatch. "By order of Chief Spook."

Deplorable, isn't it, that any Christian church should be used for any such purposes! The whole Hallowe'en business has come down to us from the traditions of the past. It is purely pagan in its origin, and is nearly always celebrated in pagan ways. Christians should be above such things.