Those at all familiar with the Bible will remember God’s expressed stipulations in regard to gifts and offerings made to Him. No physical and moral blemish would be allowed. We also remember how his indignation flamed out when he declared to the Israelites that they had offered him lambs upon the altar that were lame and diseased.

No need to dwell here, but tell me: When people go up to a 'church' entertainment, ostensibly and professedly to lay a gift on God’s altar, to contribute to Christ and God, knowing their hearts, seeing that they go there to be fed, amused, entertained, what is this but a blemished offering? It has become a gift lame and diseased with double motive, and consequently an abomination to God.

This is a great time at present for "Charity Balls," so called. They are as awfully grotesque and manifestly incongruous as a dance or ball that I once heard of that was given to build a fence around a graveyard. Who is deceived in these matters? Not God. Not even the people. It is worldliness breaking out in the church, or the world clothing itself in religious garments and trying to dance to religious music.

Lately, in a certain city, we were regaled and edified as a Christian community by a number of dancing and theatrical performances on the stage under the sweet name of "charity." It was a beautiful name they went by and virtue they illustrated, but it no more covered the thorough worldliness of this enterprise than the fig leaf covered the nakedness of Adam and Eve. No one with ordinary intelligence and powers of observation could be deceived, not even the participators. One very prominent lady of that city said in regard to the affair: "I am sick of hearing Kirmess called charity. It is not so. No one is attending the performances for the sake of charity. We are all going there to be amused." Here was a gift laid upon the altar. God’s attention was called to it — the givers called it charity. God saw it was pure, unadulterated worldliness. It was the sin of a blemished offering.

Just so is 'church' entertainment. Here are people who declare that they have come up to give to God, and yet they are people who care nothing for God or his cause. They never go out at night to a religious meeting. They are here, not to meet God, but to be fed, amused and entertained. They are here to gratify the eye, the ear, and the palate, although ostensibly and professedly they have come up to give to the cause of Christ. I solemnly declare the whole thing a mockery; it is the sin of a blemished offering and is an insult to the intelligence, holiness and majesty of heaven.

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