Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-02-07
DOWN ON DANCING.

The Ball Dance and the Par1or Dance.
At the great revival which has been
going on for some time in Brooklyn,
N. Y, on Monday at noon, Jan. Goth,
Rev. Mr.. Hunter denounced Ball dane
ing and Rev. Mr.. Crossley, Parlor
dancing, as reported in the N. Y. Times
as follows
The Rev. Mr.. Hunter denounced the
ballroom and said that in the ma ority
of these places there was a regular path
between the dance room and the bar
room, and that the girls were compelled
to dance with young men whose breath
was perfumed with cloves.
''Girls," said Mr.. Hunter, never give
your hand in marriage to men who
drink
To this remark there were number
of "Amens.n
''Thank God some fathers appreciate
my words" said Mr.. Hunter.
Mr.. Hunter asked the mothers not to
send their daughters to the dancing
school to learn the art of dancing. He
then described the men and women
who teach dancing.
81 would as soon have the arms of an
orang- outang about my daughter as to
have those of a dancing MASTER" he
said.
Down South, on the banks of a riv
er, was one of these dancing masters
sitting, smoking a cigar. A girl was
drowning, and the current carried her
down the stream. Her friends and 9th
ers were trying to rescue her. They
saw the man, and called to him to res
cue her The dancing master arose,
put on his glasses, aud desired to know
what dance she was doing.
This man looked as if melted lead
had been poured into his trousers.
There was no manhood about him.
For the sake of a dancing girl Herod
caused John the Baptist to be behead-
ed, and the great Sturgeon said that
whenever he heard of dancing he had
a strange tickling in his throat"
The Rev. Mr.. Hunter, in speaking of
the abomnable dresses worn by women
in the ballroom, said that friend told
him that when he was a boy, the wo
men wore gloves with only one button,
and dresses buttoned up to the throat,
but nowadays the gloves were button
ed up to the throat and the dresses had
only one button.
Some men, he said, allow their wives
to go to the balls, while they remain at
home and rock the cradle. These men
are fools.
Mr.. Hunter then asked the congrega-
ton to pray for two persons for whom
he had received requests. One was a
young man who seemed Indifferent
about his souls salvation and who re-
fused to go to any of the meetings. The
other was friend that had all he could
get of this worlds goods, but was not a
Christian.
The Rev. Mr.. Crossley spoke of the
dance in the parlor. There was no use
for such dance.
"There is a woman l know in To
ronto who had seven daughters. asked
her why she allowed dancing. She said
that was the only way she could get
her daughters married. But she has
five still on her hands, and she is likely
to keep them.
"Some people say, What shall we do,
brains, and then you will not want to
dance. The reason people dance is not
because it is proper. Men never dance
together, women seldom dance togeth-
er. If they did, they would not find
any pleasure in it. But when the sexes
commingle, then they experience what
they term the enjoyment of the dance.
Its impure. The square dance is not
liked, but the round dance is said to be
fascinating.
1.-The police of NewYork say that
nine out of every ten fallen women of
that city claim that they took the first
step in sin at the dance, and a Roman
Catholic Bishop said that he had ascer-
tanned in the confessional that nineteen
out of every twenty women who had
gone astray were first led through the
dance.n