I do not hesitate for a moment to pronounce the theater to be one of the broadest avenues which lead to destruction!
Fascinating, no doubt it is but, on that account, the more delusive and the more dangerous! Let a young man once acquire a taste for this kind of entertainment, and yield himself up to its gratification, and he is in imminent danger of becoming a lost character rushing upon his eternal ruin!
All the evils that can waste his property, corrupt his morals, blast his reputation, impair his health, embitter his life, and destroy his soul, lurk in the confines of the theater! Vice, in every form, lives, and moves, and has its being there!
Myriads have cursed the hour when they first exposed themselves to the contamination of the theater. From that fatal evening, they date their downfall!
Take warning then and have nothing to do with the theater. Avoid it as one of the avenues to the broad road that leads to destruction. The danger is greater than I can describe. The doors of the theater are as the jaws of the devouring lion!
[John Angell James]
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1 John 2:15-16 ... Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
2 Corinthians 6:17-18 ... Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. ❤
