Show HARSH ON DANCING aai and dancers too receive little little morey mere from a western clergyman kansas A aam city ci y times the rev frank D altman of 0 the lutheran church preached upon tho the modern dance last evening he ile choso chose his text from ecclesiastes iii 4 and a time to dance he sa said 1 id in tho the early ages the dance was devout appearing in the rb E of religion as 03 alpe t the 0 minister r of god the hebrews were accustomed to express their religious joy and emotion in its rhythmic movements aa As a religious cebern ceremony 0 dance is ia lecog recognized in t the scriptures but aj 91 a social amuse ment it is is nowhere approved so 60 completely hag has tho the dance changed from in its ancient religious char character niter that the church now rec recognizes es it aso aa one ne of its most dangerous foes all who wish to maintain a godly life are warned against its inrid oua charms the roman catholic church aas been driven by the observed evil influences of the dance to for id it in many of its popular forms the presbyterian methodist baptist and indeed all evangelical churches give their testimony to he the perils ails to vital godliness lurkin lurking 1 in ill the te surroundings of the boci soci social if dance all dances are not equally dangerous to good morals the danco in the lome under the eye of parents and frienda friends select corn com any may be considered ices less in in U urious rious than the less leas injurious than he public publio hall and yet the lance dance is condemned without ex tiou if it shall ever appear that the dance leads as many peo ile le 1 toward a godly life as it now eads from it the church will no withdraw its protest but while the drift is all away from toward the world and sin that must stand the dance is unfavorable to and social development ho love and practice of this fas ina ting amusement amus amu omet semet supplants and destroys the love of solid study reading intelligent conver aaion and the higher and better forms of social intercourse Str bandies idies n school chool are neglected read ng ing is abandoned the tho growth and ev elopement elop ment of the powers ire are stop stopped peAl and life becomes a succession of frothy unsubstantial sensations and excitements excite ments there s neither ti time me nor d disposition left or the best work of life bring og ether a company of people customer tomed to spend their time in in anding and attempt to engage hem them in intelligent conversation and the mental vacancy will be apparent an intelligent lady said 0 o a minister on this subject but what can I 1 do with my co company he people of fashionable society 0 o not read they are not capable of sustaining an interesting con conver ver bation and there is i no way of entertaining erta ining them by letting them dance this difficulty no doubt exists people usually find their highest joy in the exercise of their strongest faculty and if a novel reading theatregoing theatre going dancing idle godless company is b brought h t together they would doubtless doubt lesa be pleased with an invitation to use their heels rather than their heads the dance requires a wasteful expenditure of money the dance h has a an a largo larko place lace in history 41 t the be work of individual laell family and arid national degeneracy and bankruptcy it is in close alliance with she goddess of fas fashion and worships at her shrine abrine it must hare have costumes equiha equipages equi pages 9 es splendid apartments and heastings fea stings on OIL an elaborate efa borato and expensive scale the roce r must in at hold his bill a little foge longer r thu the landlord must wait for his rent or look in vain for the bird that has flown the tailor may collect hia his accounts as best he be ma may 1 1111 while society wrings its dema demands from its victims take the reports of one of our fashionable balls as they may be found in the daily papers and study the question of 01 expense it discredits straightforward living it stimulates the thirst for fashionable able elife life for display luxury and fast living which wrecks moro more families morally and financially financil ally than anything the associations of the dance are evil it was nursed in the lap of the wine god bacchus has kept company with the theatre since they were children together 2000 yeara ago you may almost always find it in the loitering places of the novel reading the wino wine and beer dri drinkins Dking tho the profane and licentious classes but rarely may it bo be seen in the assemblies of earnest students great thinkers or devout christians if wo we judge it by the company it keeps you will hardly feel like introducing your sons and daughters to its acquaintance the best beat people in society do not dance and for the reason that they think it of them in the lowest 0 it and vilest grades of society the dance is most popular and most common as you rise in the grade of intelligence and moral excellence ita its popularity and use decline till you reach a point where it disappears altogether it is unfavorable to tho the right relation of the sexes it requires neither braini brains nor good morals to bo be a good od dancer in ancient times t tho t 0 sexes danced separately alcohol is the spirit of beverages so to sex is the spirit of the dance take it away and nod let the sexes danco dance separately and dancing itic will abon go ro out of fashion parlor dancing C is dangerous tippling leads to drunkenness and parlor arlor dancing dancing leads lead to ungodly bar balls the ithe danco dance is destructive to christian life many excellent people who are examples of the common virtues may dance but the prayerful christian eoon soon finds find e that tha t be must choose between th the dance and hia his religious life be he cannot maintain anth eighteen hundred years ears of christian history lieve worked wor 1 ed over and over again many of these perplexing problems with but 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