The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-06-13
THAT LITTLE DANCE
WHICH SEEMS no WOERT REV. NE.
STEWART SO MUCH.
Bill Arp Replies and Tells How the Preacher
Was "Decoyed"-Arp Tired of BEING
Made a Target and Calls a Halt.

young people mao engaged IL ltll NHcrtiil 10
have II little dance and it seems somebody
who didn't approve of the business fled Il
bill of Injunction, which came up for Il hear
ing before his honor Now, the JUICE is a
scholar and has long pcrused and enjoyed
the gifted poets and after hearing argu-
ment he refused the injunction, and callin.
to mind the beautiful lines OF byron he
carelpsJv said: "On with the dance; let
iov he unconiinedr' All of thus got into the
papers, of course, and the judge received so
| many letters from his good brethren III the
| church that he had to rise and explain III
very pretty letter to the press.
| 1t seems that | and my family are in a
! dancing scrape and / wish that l could get
out OF it rs pleasantly AZ did his honor.
| Ours occurred nearly five years ago ana
| ought to be barred by the statute or lnnita-
| tons, but ever and anon we hear VI 1t from
| far away like the sound of IL linking Gym
| bal. ana my Christian friends feel CON
| strained to write me or send the papers that
| tell about it. 1t wasn't much or an affair,
| but grows bigger and bigger as the years
| roll ON. ] have recently received The Dal-
| las News, which Il kind lady sent with the
| dancing paragraph marked, as usual 1t
was iii sermon preaehed there few
| days ago by the Rev George Stewart, the
| partner of Sam Jones i'll missionary work,
| and i'll it he said:
| a decoy duck is thing that proposes to be
| a duck and is not a duck. The devil decoys
| by IL painted member OF the church that has
| not life. The devil can tie them anywhere.
| Here he related how he was caught by one
| of these decoys He was invited to Il birthday
| party given at the home of Il Presbyterian
| elder. The Presbyterian pastor Went with
him They had a good supper and u pleasant
| evening and left at 10 o'clock. The next
| morning The Atlanta Constitution had glow
| ing account Of it and went on to say that at
r. inG ana aT f Ee o T pary rp d
| the light fantastic. and among those present
| appeared the names OF Rev. George Stewart
| and Dr. Iiihousc.
| haven't got over that smirch yet. Letters
and postal cards poured in saving: .'George
| Stewart, what is the matter with YOU
| Somehow or somehow else whenever and
| wherever the Rev. Mr.. Stewart tells that
| III his sermons it gets out that | am the
| duck-the decoy-and / hear of it from
anxious friends. If he told it as a fable
| or an allegory and named no names !
wouldn't care. 1t is a right good fable and
there was enough foundation III fact for
| 1im to build on, and he built 1t is now
| copyrighted and Stereotyped.
| The facts are that when one Of our boys
! attained his majority in 1883 we did give
| hm Il birthday party, and he invited his
| young friends and we invited some of ours
| who were Older, and among them was our
! pastor, Mr.. Hillhouse. # was Il goodly
company of good people who were well
! raised and we'll hammered. Rev. Mr.. Stew
art was not invited, but somehow he came
| with our preacher and received Il cordial
welcome. He was not decoycd hither by
any OF us My wife and daughters had pro
| Yldcd u bountlful feast. There was Il big,
| t1t turkey gobbler at each end of the long
| table ana All the space between was filled
| with good things. Mr.. Stewart enioyed
| II, ! know, and was given II place of honor
ana he partook most heartily and dispensed
! his WIT and his wisdom with abundant free
dom. Our pastor enjoyed it, too, and
| joined in the general hlarty There were
| none 10 modest or make them afraid
About III O'Clock, after the feast was
! over, Mr.. llillhouSe said to my wife that he
had reason to suppose that the young folks
| had planned a little dance. to which he had
! no personal objection, but as many good
I ncog II had a different opinion, and ~ be
/, was Il minister, it would be better for him
/ to retire. And so he did retire and took
| Mr.. Stewart with him.
| The young people did have a dance and
we all enjoyed it, especially my. wife, who
| was raised that way, but now alas can
! only look on and pat her little foot to the
music. The festivities closed little after
! midnight and we said our prayers and went
! to bed.
This is all Of it that l know. The edi-
! tors of The Constitution have searched in
vain 10 find any mention of the party in
! their next morning. paper or any other
paper, and how it got out on Mr. Stewart
! we are at a loss TO know. 1t never got out
| on Mr.. Iililhouse, nor did anybody ever call
him TO account in letters or postal cards.
We are all truly sorry that Mr. Stewart
! got smirched at our house and rs he seems
| to have never recovered from IT, we will do
| all we can to relieve him "Touch not mine
auointed and do my prophets no harm,
| is cardinal text at our house. Certainty
we had no intention to decoy Of to smjrch
! him. and hope he will have charity and
| cease making us Il target. "Ie tb0f h0th
! not charity is as sounding brass and a
| tinzling cymbal" That is me cylnbal that
we have heard ever aad anon from Roanoke
| Va, to Dallas. Tex. and it disturbs our
| family tronouility for il does not seem
| amiable or Christian TO accent the hosni-
! fality of family and dcpart with their
| blessing and then make them a target TO
| shoot nj nil over fine land. King David
! said. IF I h.vt rewarded evil INTO him
whn * at neace with me- NAV mine enemy
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