The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1893-06-14
''Iota'' Again.
She is Willing to Let
Reader" Dance to
the Valley of
Death.
BUT FOR HER PART SHE WILL
SERVE THE LORD.
Gum Sucks Are As Offensive As
Dances, and the Devil is Always
Present to Get in His
Work.
HERoD Is NOT IN 1T.

McDANIEIs, KY, June 3rd, S93.--MR.
EEIToE-Your Reader" from, Tobins-
port, it seems to me, is willfully in the
dark as to Herod's case. Josephus assur-
edly gives a lengthy account OF all the
Herods.
As to what wrote being guess work"
that is mere matter of taste ] suppose
in your Reader" | must say though
that do not see it in that light. Per-
haps your "Reader" does though, for
can not see any connection between
dancing and Herod's being drunken
sot."
certainly do think that the great sin
in dancing lies in the sexes dancing to-
gether. If your "Reader" will turn to
Judges 2l:20 he, or she, will find that the
young men We're "lying in wait" in the
vineyard. That does not look like dane
ing. .r.a
| do not see that it is always necessary
to get well acquainted with people to do
them good. People often receive great
good from reading books and writings of
people with whom they have no acquain-
lance, and, in fact, never saw. If meet
ing together to dance is where the good
comes in may the good Lord help us
have never known one instance where
any one was made better by attending
dances, while many have lost all taste for
everything that is good and pure, and all
that ever knew who were religious and
were led astray by the devil on that
line have lost their religion and gone
back to the world. do not say they
have all left the church, for it is not ne
cessary to leave the church to get back to
the world. @
OF course young people need amuse-
ment, and love to see them meet to-
gether and enjoy themselves, but it is.
not at all necessary to go on the DEVILS
ground to find enjoyment and il they do
they will find only vanity and vexation
of spirit. ''There is no peace, saith the
Lord, unto the wicked"
As to the difference there is between
dancing and the games OF forfeit which
your Reader" names, and others of the
same kind, do not think they are one
particle better than dancing, but that
does not make it right to dance. We
might as well say it was as much rightto
kill men with gun as to kill them with
whisky. And that is not reasoning at
all. 1t is true that in either case the per-
son is killed, but it does not prove that
there is more sin in one case than the
other The object in view in either case
is the death of the victim. So in dane
ing, or playing those games of forfeit; the
object OF the devil is to blind and delude
his victims, not that they may find hap
piness but out of the malice OF his devil
ish nature. Surely Gods children can
find enjoyment without gong into sin.
Surely God can be trusted to confer hap
piness on his followers without going over
to the arch enemy of all that is good 10
find it. Who ever sent for a ball room
associate, in dying hour, to talk TO them
and pray for them? Not one And II
they did would that ball room friend re-
spond? Never.
Let's take Gods word where it teaches
us to be pure, holy and good, and not go
to it to try to prove that black is white, for
we cannot do it. Let your Broader"
dance to the valley of the shadow OF
death as for me and my house, as far as
my influence goes, we will serve the
Lord IoTA.