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Show j METHODISTS AND DANCING. HI The Methodists are going to lift the HI ban on dancing. Well, that will be a HB good thins?. It has been noted and HI with grief that the Methodists don't HI dance so well as they might. The H Episcopalians beat them. But serious- Hl ly, that is a ban that ought to 'be lift- Hg ed. Many a good woman, a helpful HI member of the Methodist church, has Hi- suffered pangs of conscience Decause HI she has yielded to the temptation, and HI danced, when she knew the rules of HI her church forbid it. HI She knew in her heart that she HI wasn't doing wrong, but she wanted II to keep tho rules and she wanted to I dance a little, too. BI Of course there was a reason for the rule when it was adopted. If old John W,esley couldn't have made a pe- By culiar people of tho "M-othodlos," he mtL 1 couldn't have worked the reformation wMi which he did work. And it wau wlth- Bri out doubt, a reformation that was KB-' ' needed, and that brought benefits in IB its wake. It came at a time when there was need of a protest against excesses ex-cesses in all avenues of life. And it was effective in the betterment of the whole Christian weld. But times have changed. Methodists can bo as direct and Intense and as good as need be and yet conform somewhat more to the habits of the world. And it wouldn't be a bad thing, while the general conference is in session, for some big bishop to get up there and tell them what they all know to be the truth: Methodist ministers min-isters ought to go to the theatre. They have lost far more than their church has gained because of their having missed a means of preaching more effective ef-fective than their own. |