The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-05
A DIVINE ON DANCING.
DIR. M'Donagh, of the New Dominion,
HOrrifi-s His Congregation by n
sermon Made Up Of too Plain
Speech about Dancing.

SDeecn ABOUT
The Toronto correspondent of the
Chicago Times writes: THE people of |
the Province OF Ontario are willing to |
bet their boots that they can produce
more fearful and wonderful man of God |
than Brother Talmadge of Brooklyn, in |
the person OF Rev. William M'Donagh, |
Presbyterian minister of the hourishing
town of Paris, on the Great Western
Railway. Brother M'Donagh has for
some years been regarded as the cham
pion exhorter of the Dominion. The
other day be preached a sermon on dane
ing. The heads of the synod sent a
stenographer to the church, and the re-
port of the sermon has been filed away
as the foundation Sof an. indictment
against Brother M'Donagh, which will
be brought before the high Presbyterian
tribunal that meets in Toronto in June
next The text was the twelfth verse of
the fifth chapter of Isaih: "And the harp
and the viol, the tarpet and pipe, and
wine arc their feasts, but they regard
not the work of the Lord, neither con-
slider the operations of His hands" l
send you a copy of those portions of the
able chiefs of the Church in this city are
preparing charges of Indecent and
shameful conduct on the part of the
preacher. The church, it may be well
to state, was filed TO suffocation by an
immense congregation, including two or
three hundred ladies. Rev. Mr.. M'Don-
agh said; 1.-The history of dancing is full
OF all that is beastly, envious, murder
GUS and lusttul. 1t has been stated that
the terrible moral debasement Of dancing
in the United States has been the prl-
mary cause of nine-tenths of all the
divorces in the country. Why, every
man and woman IN France can fiddle and
dance, and many a dancing scalawag of
dancing chimney-sweep leaves France
for frances good, and goes to New
York or Chicago where he announces
himself as teacher of dancing or music,
obtains position in a family of young
ladies', and is soon engaged in the work
of clearing out these young girls OF every
shred OF virtue they may possess, going
from family to family, polishing off the
girls az he goes. This French scoundrel
has been accustomed to see women
dancing in their birthday attire at home,
and he soon has his pupil in this coun-
try taught to do the same, I have no
doubt this sort of thing is done in this
town Great commotlon among the
females in the congregation, and cries of
Shame Shame!' and general smirking
and tittering. What is dancing? What
is dancing? What is the inner life Of
dancing; 10 it amusement? No. Is it
! healthiul exercise? No. Everybody
knows that the inner life of dancing is
consciousness of sex. l will repeat it,
the inner life of the dance is the con-
scousness of sex-a feeling more under
stood than described More commo.
, motion, and repeated cries OF shame!
Who dares to deny that? Read Romans,
!, twelfth chapter, first verse, and Gala
tians, fifth chapter, seventeenth tc
twenty.fi first verses You doubt my word
some of you professed Christians. who
permit balls in your houses, and let youl
: wives and daughters be fingered, clawet
and besavered over by lustful and grin
y ming lbertines. [Uproar. l tell you
:, if you would make the parties at you
:; houses popular, you must shorten thu
= dresses above and below of the women
Great excitement, and cries of Put hin
outn1 Don't talk to me about dancing
: | once looked through door at dance
u and saw the women acting like beasts
\, "And gazed, amazed and curious.
They reeled they set, they crossed, they cleck il
@ Loupin and finging on commock,
n l wonder didna hearn their stomach"
'. Where do you libertne and lustfu
1t Christians get your dances from? l vii
3. tell YOU They are sent from hell t
d France, and thence to Canada, via Ne'
10 York and Chicago. A voice, No, W
d import direct from headquarters an
n save the middle man; we're grangers
IN commotion.l believe you; verify bt
ar lieve this town is a small hell, and thi
is Dominion hell nearly four millio
c. square miles in area. The Turk, who
I'd after looking at a modern waltz, asked
Ve And what followed?' had level heat
u TGreat uproar. I'll show you wht
at dancing is. looked through windo
1e at dance in this town the other ever
o. ing--dv you want me to give names?-
lis and I saw a young fool of fellow al
at proach young lady, and I'll show yc
IS, what followed. Here Rev. M'Donae
a tripped across the pulpit platform, ar
he bowing politely to an imaginary your
ly lady, said in soft tones, My dear Mi
I'M NJ. can have the pleasure of
'te dance with your Then the reverei
'm gentleman tripped back as if bearing
e. lady on his arm. This exhibition Great
'at great laughter. And now watch tn
ed young couple. The young woman
as gins to perspire, her eyes flash, 8
he grows excited; the man is also excite
.b- he takes hold of the young lady 3 han
OF his touch thrills her through and throug
to and off they go into the dance, ho rea
he to pounce on her virtue the frat chan
that offers" A voice, "You know h
it is yourself" Cheers and great
o., citement.