“UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS”

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1928, Page 9

“UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS”

SINFUL HEART OF PARIS EVANGELIST'S IMPRESSIONS annie McPherson shocked By Telegraph—Brest Assn. —Copyright. Received Sept. 23, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 22. “I have been looking into a ehasm of unspeakable horrors,” said Mrs. Arnie McPherson, the famous American revival evangelist, when giving her impressions of Paris to the Daily Express upon her arrival at the French capital. "As the beautiful robe was lifted a moment from the heart of sinful Paris I glimpsed the awful canker eating its core,” continued Mrs. McPherson. “My head is swirling with the hideous futility of it. The city is a veritable Gomorrah. It seems the fire must fall at any moment. "I went to dancing halls where I wanted to leap on a chair 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 slumped up against the bar. Some of the girls, in their teens, were drinking and smoking with the sangfroid of hardened old sinners. The axiom here is that two years of this life is sufficient to destroy the body and soul of these young people. The Quartz art ball is worse’than the orgies of ancient Rome. “From Mont -Parnasse I was whirled to Mont Martre, where I entered a hall where a negro band was playing, the negroes not hesitating to speak to any white girls. Gross licentiousness roda unbridled. What are the churches doing?

“Lastly, I was taken to an Apache ball. While I live I will never forget the smiling spider of a man who bowed us in.”