p. 302 | Why New York Prefers Theaters to Christian Lectures

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, May 6, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 19

Why New York Prefers Theaters to Christian Lectures

—New York is a cultured city, a refined city, an intellectual city, a philosophical city—shall we not say a pious city—that is, the best part of it? And yet, brethren, and yet, Rev. Dr. R. S. Storr's splendid lectures on “The Evidences of Christianity”—they are splendid—attract just about a two-thirds audience at the not very large Association Hall—of which no small proportion are theologians. And this with the admission free to all, while six days in the week twenty five theaters are pretty well filled, some of them crowded, at prices ranging from twenty-five cents to a dollar and a half. Still the people of New York are a cultured, thoughtful, earnest people, as the spires of some 300 churches, climbing through its murky atmosphere and laying their fingers against the heavens, attest. Let us see—how do we explain this?—Christian at Work.