This, it seems to me, speaks in thunder tones the demoralizing influence of this class of popular pastimes."

"I can not fully agree with the Doctor's conclusion," said Esquire Easy, "although facts are true; but they operate the same in other cases than those of actresses; for we can think of at least one prominent preacher whose popularity was increased by the scandal attached to him."

"Dr. T.-"As a physician, I am disposed to denounce both the opera and theater, because of the late hours and unreasonable exposure of person which fashion, in regulating dress and attendance, has imposed on habitues of these resorts of pleasure. I speak especially of the injury to the morals and the health of the ladies who are given to this sort of pleasure, for, with the exception of contact of person, the tendency is much the same as the round dance."

"Upon what evidence do you base so fearful an accusation ?" queried Deacon Wise.

"Dr. T.-"First, upon my personal knowledge as a practitioner of medicine, and also upon current report. Take, for instance, this which I have just clipped from the Boston Gazette:

"UNDRESS AT THE OPERA.-Society is very much aroused over the appearance of a certain well-known lady at her box at the Metropolitan Opera House the other night. She wore her dress very low in the neck and with simple straps across the shoulders, and the color of her waist material she got as near a flesh tint as could be found, so that at a little distance it was impossible to see any dividing line. As she sat in her box the effect was startling, and every opera-glass in the house was leveled at her, while the men in the audience who knew her hastened, between the acts, as a committee of investigation, to see what it was she had on or had off. The effect produced by her dressing was exactly what she wanted, and yet she is a young woman, a married woman, a mother and not an immodest woman. If a man should accidentally see

her with the waist of her dress off, though she wore a high-necked under waist, she would be ready to faint; and yet she would sit in her box at the opera showing as much of her flesh as she dared, and with the avowed intention of looking as though she was undressed. I do not know what it is that makes women do these things, unless it is the love for social notoriety. They seem to want to do something to break the monotony of ordinary social life, and rack their poor brains for some novelty in dress or some eccentricity that will make them more talked about than their friends.

"Now, however much we may be disposed to apologize for such things, they are injurious to morals and ruinous to the health of those who practice them."

As the hour was now late, and nearly all the company present had been drawn as listeners to this conversation, the parties who could no longer stay, by their movements. to retire, broke up the circle, and all prepared for leave-taking, whereupon Esquire Easy said:

"Ladies and gentlemen: We are happy in that we have enjoyed your presence and society to-night. I feel that, as your host, I owe to some of you an apology for allowing myself to become so absorbed in the conversation on amusements as to have taken the greater part of the evening thus. It may compensate somewhat if I state that I have come, by this investigation, to look at the opera and the theater in a new light. As you know, I have heretofore been a quast advocate of the right and privilege of Christians to attend them, but now I am resolved to 'touch not the unclean thing,' for the following reasons:

"A.-There is nothing in either the opera or the theater to advance a Christian in the divine life.

"B.-The tendency of all plays, whether high or low, is to give those who love them visionary and impractical views of human life.

"C.-There is possibility of becoming a lover of these things, and to their devotees there is danger of injury to morals and to health.

"D.—No prominent man in the history of our nation is known to have had a mother who was a lover of the opera or theater; so that the love of such amusements is destructive of high hopes and bright prospects for our children.

"E. The tendency to extravagance in dress, and equipage, fostered by fashion, which governs these popular amusements, is destructive of Christian love, and contrary to the law of the Lord.

"F.-No person has ever been made wiser, better or holier by the influence of opera or theater, but there have been thousands led to their present and eternal destruction by them.

"Now, others may do as they will, but as for my voice, and influence, and example, they are henceforth against both opera and theater."

"Amen! and amen!" came from a number of voices, and it was noticed that there was an unusual warmth in the farewell handshaking.

J. C. TULLY.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JEU HAUK.

Jeu Hauk was born January 13, 1867, in the province of Kwangtung, Canton District, town of Goo-chen. Hence, he is what is popularly called a Cantonese. His father, at home, was a linen-weaver. He came to America four years ago, bringing Jeu Hauk with him, having left a wife and three younger children at home. They are of the working class; yet his father, Yuo Sing, is regarded as the most intelligent man of his class in this city. His fine face is almost Caucasian in its cast. Because of his good judgment and known courage in advising his hard-working but less intelligent countrymen against paying tribute to the powerful "Ye Hing" blackmailing society, members of that society, by a conspiracy, secured his arrest last summer. He is still in jail, from which I will secure his release in due time. I have every reason to know the father of Jeu to be an honest, innocent man, and one possessed of moral courage of the highest order; the evidence of which, when " the law's delay" is ended, I will give to the public.

Immediately upon coming to St. Louis, three years ago, Jeu Hauk entered the Chinese Sunday-school connected with the Y. M. C. A., conducted by Mr. Ford. Miss Sue A. Robinson, a member of the Central Christian Church, became his teacher, and he her only pupil. He had attended the primary schools of China six years, but at the time he entered Sunday-school he was unable to speak or understand a word in English. With Christ in her heart, and Paganism in his, they sat down together. Every Sunday for two and a half years she went through sunshine and storm, with prayer and patience, to work at what others thought an impossibility—the conversion of that Pagan heart to Christ. Each week she found him in possession of a few more English words; for he was apt, retentive, and anxious to learn. His youth was in his favor in learning our language, and not having to unlearn all the error of his people. He attended night schools, and learned to write as well as the average public-school-boy of fifteen. Miss Robinson taught him something of music, of which he is very fond. He soon learned to sing and translate gospel hymns. From the first, the story of Jesus had a charm for him. The simplicity of it took hold upon his heart, as he is endowed with a cheerful disposition and a