The Devil's Chapel. Psalm 101, verse 3. I will set before my eyes no vile thing. William Plumer. The theater is an evil place. In this vortex of vice, the first step is to the theater, the next is to the bar, the next is to lewd company, the next is to the brothel, the next is to disease, the next is to death, and the last step is to hell. Augustine Stage plays are the subverters of goodness and honesty, the destroyers of all modesty and chastity. Seneca Nothing is so destructive of good manners or morals as attendance on the theatre. Gregory Nazianzen Playhouses are the lascivious shops of all filthiness and impurity. Tillotson, the playhouse is the devil's chapel, a nursery of licentiousness and vice. It is a recreation which ought not to be allowed among a civilized nation, much less a Christian people. The American Congress, October 12th, 1778. Whereas true religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness, resolved, that it be, and is hereby earnestly recommended to the several states, to take the most effectual means for the suppressing of theatrical entertainments, horse-racing, gambling, and such other diversions as are productive of idleness, dissipation, and a general depravity of principles and manners. Turn my eyes away from worthless things. Psalm 119, verse 37. Editors note, one can only imagine what the above authors would say about much of the debased media which professing Christians now amuse themselves with. And what will God say?