LORD, Save Us From Our Worst Enemies, Ourselves

One of the broadest avenues 
that lead to destruction! (Hannah More, 1745-1833)

I do not hesitate for a moment to pronounce
the theater to be one of the broadest 
avenues that 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 species of entertainment,
and yield himself up to its gratification--
and he is in great danger of becoming
a lost character, rushing upon his ruin.

All the evils that can . . .
  corrupt his morals,
  blast his reputation,
  embitter his life,
  and destroy his soul--
lurk in the purlieus 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.

Light and darkness are not more
opposed to each other, than the Bible
and the theater. If the one is good--
then the other must be evil.

If the Scriptures are to be obeyed--
then the theater must be avoided.
The only way to justify the theater,
as it is, as it has ever been
and is ever likely to be,
is to condemn the Bible--
the same individual can
not defend both!

(Editor's note: Hannah More's words have certainly come true
in our generation. Our American "entertainment" has perhaps
done more to corrupt our society than anything else.
We Christians would do well to evaluate our entertainment
choices by GOD'S Word.)

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The above quote is an excerpt from Samuel Milton Vernon's superb 50 page book,
"Amusements in the Light of Reason, History, and Revelation" Must reading!