Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-11-26
Dancing.


ject, and should not, had not our minc
been led to it by an uugenerous stur upor
, churches and professors of religion, whicl
We lately saw quoted in one of our city pa
pers, from the pen of a lady Of some celeb
ri,y as newspaper writer. She says,
"The more deeply church or individual b..
comes STEPPED in the spirit OF money grabbing
The more adherence they have for dancing"
This is t;alse. The more charity, benev-
, olence, and true piety, there is in a church
, or individual, the more they abhor all dis
I sipating amusements-going to balls, dan
cling, and the like. "True religion, is to
visit the widow and the fatherless in their
affection, and to keep ourselves unspotted
from the world" How are We to keep
ourselves "unspotted from the world" il
we DO not keep ourselves from vain and
foolish amusements? We are not to be
conformed to the fashion of the world
and where is the fashion of the world if it
is not in the ballroom Now, when pro
fessors speak against attending balls and
dancing, they are only upholding their
principles as they understand them from
the Bible, and are not "hypOcritically
canting," as the writer calls it. The more
true pety there is in a church, the more
charity and benevolence there will be, and
less love of money, and more adherence
to dancing, theatres, circusses, and such
places of amusement.
! -Show US wealthy deacon's wife who will
higgle with poor widow TO get washing done
for twelve and a half cents a dozen, and We vii!
show you one who will take spasm over the iu-
iquities of a cotillion."
! We never, in all our experience, knew
such a deacon's wife, although there may
be some; but we hare known many ball
going gentry who did not pay their wash
erwoman at all, and some that have run
away from their boarding house, kept by
poor widow, without paying a cent for
months, and the same night attend a fash
ionable ball while the poor woman was suf-
fering for her board money; and some who
have stolen money from sick father to
crafty their love for dancing and the the
atre, and who never gave cent to any be-
nevolent objec. in their lives. This is the
kind of society she upholds.
"There is no place we should go with a sub
scrip;on paper for char able object. with more
hope OF success. than 10 social party where all
were danciug 10 the music OF two good violins
and a Trombone.
Very likely; for she appears to have no
part or lot with the church going part of
society, and consequently never carried a
subscription paper among them, and there
fore has no right TO condemn them untried
Who are the benevolent part of the com
munity? We viii give the following il
lustration:
We left the fashionable city in which
we were born, and went to country VII
lage to school. There was in that place
fashionable dancing school, and very few,
if any benevolent societies, and the poor
were sent to the miserable aims house,
except those whom the churches supported.
That village was visited by a revival Of
religion, and the scene changed. People
who had been enemies fer years, became
friends; charitable and benevolent socie
ties were formed the poor were relieved
and had their children clothed and sent to
school. The people were willing to give,
not only their money, but their ornaments,
to support their charity and benevolence.
The dancing schools and the balls, what
became of them? They died off, for want
of supporters; and III their stead arose the
Dorcas Society, Bible and Missionary So
cieties, and many other benevolent organl-
zations. This shows that professors were
generous, and yet they could not counte-
nance ball and dancing.
Whenever any one begins to lecture on dan
cling. we suspect him OF her o. Icing uoTshIper
Of msmmon
Your suspicious are as false as the rest
Of your article, for IRE neither worship
mammon or fashion, yet we deprecate balls,
dancing, theatres, and all amusements of
similar character, for good reasons which
we need not give now.
If YOU, Mrs. s., wish to dance, do so,
but have the generosity not to ridicule
those who do not believe with .-'al-
leg Farmer.