The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-11-08


DANCING.
Extract from a sermon Delivered T.
Rev, j. L. Scudder at Jersey City.
Look where you will in this wOrlt
aud you will find dancing of som,
sort. The word ia Hebrew for dane,
means leap for JOY" The lame
man who was cured in the Tempt,
began to dance and praise the Lord
and he had good reason to, for it wa,
the first time in forty Years that he
had had the use of his legs.
as it right to dance" Scripture
says, LET the children OF Zion h,
joyful in their king, let them praise
his name in the dance Therefore
If your dancing is such that you can
glorify God in the performance ther
dance. But if tends TO scanGalize the
Lord you should give it up. If you
contin" your dancing to respectable
persons, respectable places aud res
pectable methods, and maintain you
self respect and purity Of heart, then
| can see no objection. 1t is til,
abuses of dancing which is the dan
ger, and there is a mighty divergence,
Of opinion on the question. SOM
say all dancing is sin, they disp"-,
of it by one bold stroke. They d.
vide the community into two clas1t,
one is walking toward heaven, liz
other is Waiting into he'll, bat the}
are in the minority. In thi, age sucI
heroic treatment will not work.
There is a great and growing cIas,
ofChristians who regard such que--
tions In the light of common sens,
and acknowledge that dancing in it.
Self Is not wicked any more than rid
ing or driving, The Church cannn
lay down law- on the subject. 1t j.
time the barrier was taken down.
In Congregational and Presbyterlal
churches il M haeu pulled out o.
the way lotg ago and it il CROWN.
smaller in the Methodist and Bap
tist Churches. / five eXuummuuirHI
ri those who dance VI. would los.
SIte larger pt.rt II our congregations
"Il0e f"h-,uu has no OF objection t,
your h"ayir-a-m Hfime imtbe world
The question j. Whsre shall W,
dance, when zhali We dance and how
shall we daurn''
man shout" not clasp a womar
In his arms. simply guide her.
Shameless and conspicuous huggine
y d>-cra2ofuI. Men who hav,
danr1d AL 'h"ir lives. after marriage
viii rrnt nIIow their wives to dance a.
all, because Of the embracing permit
ted.
Dancing to be pure should be CON
tined to the home circle, and NOT
r'lhIIr balls. Dancing of women with
MEN They eve saw before is bad
business. Behind the diamond
Btudd;u shirt front may lie a mora
leper. Some Young fellows who be
longto the elite might tetter be char.
acterized as belonging to the "hel
lite 1t makes no difference whe
ther You dance with 0 mar possess
ing gentlemanly instincts or q wei
dressed, lOw-lived brute. You finu
both classes IN society, and some
times it is difficult to tell which j.
which. Women who accepts stran
gers as partners and submit their
persons to close embrace run a ri-t
that Is dangerous, a2d their modest,
rs in danger. No young woman, n
married woman should suffer he
waist to be clasped by the arms OF t
man she never saw before. Thci
partners ought to be known to then
20 that the characters of the me
Grs Known to be pure and Respect
able. | would not permit a daughtr'
Of mine to enter a public ball. room
or engage in prOrliscuous dancint
with unknown men. They are unfit
cenes for innocent women, and ne
pure minded woman should 60 t.
such places.
I huff al :natnetna against pro-
miscrous dancing and / denounct
these public masquerade balls a.
thoroughfares 10 edition. Her
dancing 10 dangerous for men al wei
as women. They are the gates O
hell, and no one believing in religion
can enter them without defllrment.