| Show i mm yf t HUNDREDS HIT J 1 SAWDUST TRAIL IP Young oung Folks Promise to Dance No More Following ing j Sermon Sennon by b Revivalist t RAPS RS us CHURCH CHURCH PEOPLE f t l t 1 Evangelist Says Some Prefer t-I t J. J j Pleasures of Dance to I I e i Duties as Christians s t 3 4 Fully hit the tho persons lons saw du dur r trail at nt the union revival taberna x on Second Hast East street last Jast night nIch the close of or a sermon on Tho 1110 Dane b by Dr E x AV W. K E Nearly earl those who took a stand for a a. belt bet t life declared before an nn audience packed the auditorium that th the they st dance no more and that they won s urge their friends to give Si up th pleasure When the invitation was as given gl 1 the e an evangelist almost the whole ch cho left loft the tho loft and walked to the thc spa In front of or the pulpit platform In the course of ot his sermon Dr BI Bl denounced church members f I not making malting n a fight against He e said that list man many of or them thou more of or terpsichorean pastimes they thc did dill of or the church and that tin th m made mado tJ a mi mighty hh sorrY a as Chri All AlI th the chur churches h s of or the ui- ui Unit uil l U I States have taken a position agar agall dancing b by official action tion said Mr B Bl nt n I have ha not time to argue arguo man many n th these se points point with you ou Dr N M continued but T I will nm make tho the stat sta JW ti ments and let them e drive ire r home In you j ou First the mingling of sexes In t t dance ori originated in Greece amon among d dl solute men and women Omen of loose mora Ir- Ir Second there are no square dances I 1 tho the brothels Third there Is 18 little ed cd no delight in dancing without the o he heed po sex s R x X and the woman who dam ed edof only with her husband or the girl w tt of oC ofIn dances only with her brother arc are areo t o- o first to get Jet tired and to leave the d da cin cing party part and go goo home Fourth th this thEis the theIs a Is the testimony of dancers I co COt con an au u bring here before you by b the n that their downfall has come dancing dancin Fifth If Ir the dance docs does rA n r A have havo Its foundation In the then Tord Toro Byron Bron could not have he tt wr r ten what he did of the waltz In Ingo sot Not ConJ Conjecture turf lie S. S Says bar These arc are not conjectures they a facts They The show that the dance wrong In nature tendency and resu go 0 it Is dangerous to social and ils I S purity purll I Lot me tell you OU that ri right ht during I Ia t ta a last month one of your our dancing p pr rd nl lessors came to me and told me t tt th h the dances dancE in which your our young joung p peo o p a st t indulge c are ul vulgar ar and anti Indecent Wr WI mi 11 even en the dancing professors of ot t d United States only last winter h he their annual meeting In New York a 1 went on record b by resolution to t cr- cr effect that the tho modern dance IB is 1 ii U- U moral and degrading to the tho young m mand mand n and young oun women omen of or the land and t ter th er the dances would ha have e to be correct C Ct n t And Anil yet there are arc some women h ne e our churches who stand up and antl d I fend end the dance and say It Is harmle for or the tho boys rid girls they girls the they say sav th U thIn tor In n face of or what the dancing profess of themselves acclaim and In the face y the testimony of thousands upon tho the he sands of or rul ruined ed girls who tell us t th ch their downfall Is to be attributed tl the danco dance floore floor I e- e |
