Americana: "a money-mad, pleasure-crazed race"

NEW YORK
Lububrious conclusions of the Rev. John Roach Straton, D.D. the Baptist Pope of New York, as reported by the world famous Times:

"Vice and crime are increasing day by day. Sensualism rules supreme on stage and screen. Many magazines and best sellers are putrid with moral inequity. The popular dance has descended to the lowest depths of degradation. Churches on every side are lukewarm and spiritually paralyzed, and blatant infidelity is proclaiiming its untruths in college halls and even from many pulpits of the land. The marriage vow is becoming a scrap of paper. The foundations of the home have all been destroyed by commercialized amusements and a money-mad, pleasure-crazed race is rushing on toward the precipice."

[“Americana,” American Mercury, March, 1925, p.302.]