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Show BEECHER ON DANCING. Henry Ward Beecher. io a recent, sermon, says : Some persons, when they join a church, think tbat they must put all tho glee and mirth and musio out ol their lives. Don't you do it ! It' a love song ripples up to the service of your heart, sing it! sing it I Don't let it die ! My second mother lor I remember re-member no other was my idea of womanly gentleness, propriety and elegance. ele-gance. She was Dot, however, very demonstrative. tJlie used, before marriage, mar-riage, to be quite a belle, and was often kuuwn to trip the light lautastic. . One evening, as my father played a tune on the violin, my mother arose, and in the most graceful manner possible possi-ble to conceive, commenced to dance around the room. I didn't know what to make of it. I'wus speechless with consternation and delight. My father looked on in surprise. Never in the whole course of my life had I seen such a thing attempted in my father's house. It was delicious, and I got a lesson then which has lasted me ever since. I think to thU day that it my mother had danced oftener and said the catechism a little less it would have been better for all of us. If you have a talent for music, cultivate culti-vate it; for dancing, cultivate it; whatever what-ever gifts God has given you make tho most of them, whether of the voice, foot or eye. In this way man will be made better. The heart must take holdofthera. S..A mn if Th,.o h.,A n bm.rlr,. m:L,r. nolias blooming in their gardens would pray for the wind to blow so that the perfume would be wafted straight into their own houses. That is no way. tiec to it that other lulks participate. Do you suppo.se that if you take a barefooted buy into y iur house aud reach his heart ihruugh his senses, ihat is, by opening your cupboard aud giving him of your good things, if you speak kindly and lovingly to him, do you suppose that boy will go away and call you stuck up? Build v. r house large and make your doors wide. Oh! if God makes bis footstool so beautiful, what must his throne be? The true teaching of the Gospel is that the strong are the natural protectors pro-tectors of the weak. Speak kindly to your servant, your driver, the boy that carries your ashes. What if he is dirty? There is a lesson in dirt which if rightly interpreted would be of great service. |