AMERICAN EVANGELIST IN PARIS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 September 1928, Page 7

AMERICAN EVANGELIST IN PARIS.

WENT TO THE TOURIST HALLS OlSf MONTiAJRTBB AN© THAT "APACHE BALL! Received Sunday, 7- p.m. LONDON, Sept. 22. Mrs. Aiinee McPherson, the famous American revival evangelist, has reached Paris. : - In giving the "Da,ily Express" her impressions, she .says: "I have been looking into a chasm of unspeakable horrors. As. the beautiful robe lifted for a moment from the heart of sinful Paris, I had a glimpse of the awful canker«, eating its core. My head is swirling with the hideous futility of it. The city is a veritable Gomorrah, and it seems that fires must fall at any moment. 1 went to the dancing halls, where I wanted to leap on a ehair and shout: "Stop, in the name of Heaven, stop! " In a hall in the Art quarter was a long row of boys and girls on high chairs) lumped up against a bar. Some girls in their 'teens were drinking and smoking with the sang froid of hardened old sinners. An axiom hero is that two years of this life are sufficient, to destroy the bodies and souls the-se young people. The Quartz Arts Ball is worse-than the orgies of ancient Eome. From Mont Pu*aasse, I was whirled to Montmartre, where I entered a.hall where a negro band was playing, the negroes not hesitating to speak to any white girls. Gross licentiousness rode unbridled. What are the Churches doing! Lastly, I was taken to an Apache ball. While I live, I shall never forget a smiling spider of a man who bowed low and smirked, saying: "Entrez Madame I "' It is all too awful to describe. If you do not know that such horrors exist ,it is better for you that they be left untold." Mrs. McPherson, who is shortly visiting London M to drive the devil out of England,'' announced as head of the "Four Square Gospel and Lighthouse, Incorporated," is travelling with an entourage, resembling a cinema star or a world-beating boxer. It includes three secretaries, press agent, business manager, six orchestras of banjos and a complete company of 60 girl harpists, who are known as angels. Mrs. MePherson speaks with three times the speed of a political spell-binder, getting over 15,000 words an hour. She binds converts to abandon cards, dancing, smoking and drinking.