It operates as a screen or cloak for the covetousness and avarice of many church members.

Those that love their money better than they do Christ will never object to 'church' entertainments. It offers a double relief to them. One is, that they get back the full value of their money in food or amusement so that, as a business venture, it is a success. The entertainment saves the man from utter financial loss. The other benefit is that by the expenditure of a dollar, he obtains credit and stands upon a like platform of liberality with the rest, whereas if the appeal had been made to conscience in the name of the church and God, he would have been compelled to give much more.

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