---
title: 'Sports That Kill'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Thomas De Witt Talmage'
date: 1875-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Character and Conduct of Life'
- 'Sabbath (Ethics)'
- 'Sermons'
scriptures:
- 'Judges 16'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/talmage-1875-sports-that-kill
---

# Sports That Kill

T. DeWitt Talmage's sermon denounces the modern theatre as morally destructive, using Samson's downfall to warn of vice, intemperance, and ruinous associations. A call to Christian vigilance.

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