The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-22


Dancing.
Hast ihop NOT when seeking pleasure.
IN some vain and worldly way.
Heard "stiIi voiee" softly whispering.
Pleading, not 10 90 astrav?
Striving thus 10 call ihes homewar.i.
From earth's noise and strife and din.
Chsst'ning thee BY kind rebuking,
From thy aimless life ~ sin!
Have you not often heard that ain
voice reprcving you. pleading not to 20
astray! Y0n may dance ia spite of ~.
and all such old people. but you will not
dance in spite ofGod. For as y0u scw
you vii: rrsp." d, dancers! there Il .
time coming when one smile, one kind
word from God, will be worth more to
you than AL the wealth that ever 1oatrd
across the broad Atlantic. You saw the
: children Of Iseral danced: they wsn-
dered many years In the wilderness.
Perhaps they danced. for they often
went astray and disobeyed God Just ~
Others to-day are doing. God punished
them for their wickedness. There MAS
only ono that was ever permitted a.
enter the promised land" that WA
brought out Of bondage. "You with
your Bible, and me with my fiddle, aud
I'VE will see who will win the day. saida
young man TO friend who was trying so
persuade him TO be Christian, and give
up the bad habit Of dancing. And we
will see who did win the dav. That
young man lost his health in the hail.
room. and In ices than six months was
Iraving maniac. Weary Of life The end
came, he lay cold and stiff in death. even
then he seemed surrounded by terror
$50 terrible had been his last moments.
Thus the strong defer Of God went 10
inject his Judge defeated. So the dswn
iof eternity's day will find many weary az
: useless life, as with empty hands and
mute lips they stand before their
Creator with their hearts full OF unutter-
able repentance but, "Too late too late.
Jesus Of Naxareth has passed by.- Thus
sadly ended the life Of one whose first
steps in forgetting the vows Of conse-
Grated life and soul-ruin was only dane
ling Ct his sisters ball. II il . IamentabIs
fact to-day, that many in discussing this
question will plead for the dance. be-
cause Il makes the children graceful and
elegant: but as : general rule they are
most too eleg ant 10 bear the cross. Take
them 10 church and to the Sabbath
school. and there 10 where they will
learn what true grace and elegance is:
they will learn moro there. and II
will be fefter for them, shsn all tho glxr
and elegance ever attained in the hall
rrOoin. o! how many OF you have stood
. and seen the clods rolled over . fathcr.
. mother, brother or sister, and have
thought within yourselves. "I'll meet
them in Heaven" some OF you hav.
perhaps thought the same nj old Shiloh
when you saw father or mother put for
ever from your sight. in the cold dasmp
grave y. are you trying to meet them
Then
Y Hasten sinner to return,
:, Stay not for the morrow's sun:
1 Lest thv lamp should cease to burn,
/ Ere salvatiom's work IL done.
\ Xow 70 those thar DO not dance, may
yuu always be Arm In resisting all en-
! treaties 10 dance, turn deaf ear to al
! sucn entreaties and remember shy Gre
ator nov. and great viii BE- your reward
Nov, to those that dance. farewell: nisv
you sce your error and rue II before u -
. forever too late. -.