The Progress., 1894-10-06

taken by all those who are Mortified
At playfnlness on the part OF the
Dung and who think that all ques-
tons are Neutrality-suspicious. of de-
cencv and morals-by the position OF
the feet, while an the other hand. can
see nothing but ruin, temporal and
eternal, for those who go into the dis
STATIONS of social life, dissipationR
which have already despolled thou
sands of young men and women OF all
that is noble in character and useful
in life.
Dancining is the graceful motion OF
the body adjusted by art to the sound
and measures of musical instrument
or Of the human voice All nations
have danced. The ancients thought
that Castor and Pollux taught the ART
IN the Lacedemonians But whoever
started it, all chimes have adopted IT,
IN ancient times they hao the
festal dance, the military dance, the
mediatorial dance, the bacchanalian
dance, and queens and lords swaved
10 and fro in the gardens, and inc
.ouoh backwoodsman with this exer-
Use awakened the echo OF the forest.
There is something in the sonno VI
lively music to evoke the movement OF
the hand and foot whether cultured
or uncultured. Passing down the
street we unconsciously keep step to
the sound of the brass band, while
the Christian in church with his 1907
beats time while his sonl rises upon
some great harmony. While this is so
in civilized lands, the red men OF the
forest have their scalp dances, their
green corn dances, their war dances
In ancient times the exercise was so
utterly and completely depraved that
the church mathematical it. The old
Christian fathers expressed themselves
most vehementlv againse it. St Chrv'
session. saws: "The feet were not
given for dancing, but to walk mod
estly. not to leap impudently like
camels" One of the dogmas OF the
ancient church reads: A dance is the
DEVILS possession, and he that enter
eth into dance entcreth into his pos
session. As many PAGES as man
makes in dancing, 30 many PAGES doeS
he make to hell" r Else where the old
dogmas declared this: 'The woman
that singeth in the dance is the prln-
cess of the devil, and those that an
swer are her clerks, and the beholders
are his friends, and the music is his
bellows. and the tiddlers are the MIN
listers of the devil. For as when hogs
are straved, If the hogsherd call one
all assemble together, so when the
devil calleth one woman to sing In
the dance. or to play on some musical
, Instruments presently all the dancers
gather together This indiscriminate
and universal denunciation OF the ex'
, ercise came from the fact that it was
. utterly and com nj q telv denraved
As to the physical ruin wrought oy
y the dissipations of social life there
can be no doubt What may we ex-
pect of people who work all day and
dance all night? After while they
= will be thrown on society nervous, ex-
- hausted i'm be Giles. These people who
! indulge in the suppers and the mid
night rcvels and then 60 home in the
: cold unwrapped of limbs, will after 8
- while be found to have been writer
. down in Gods eternal records as sui
cides, as much suicides as if they hae
taken their life with q pistol, or ;
knife, or strychnine
~ How many people have stepped from
the ball room into the graveyard
Consumptions and swift neuralgia
:. are close on their track. Amid man.
=, of the glittering scenes of social life
- diseases stand right and left and bal
~ ance and chain. Tine breath Of tn
- Sc pulchre floats up through the pei
:. fume and the froth of deaths lip
~ bubbles up In the champagne. al
81 told that in some of the cities ther
"a are parents who have actually give
rr up housekeeping and gone to board
p ing that they may give their tim
ii illimitably to social designations.
o. have known family after famil
~ blasted in that way in one of the othe
N cities where preached. Father an
Is. mother turning their back upon a
T. quiet culture and all amenities of HON
I'll leading forth their entire family j
At the wrong direction. .Annihilatet
y. worle than annihilated-fo there 81
~ some things worse than aunlhilatio1
I give you the history of more tina
~ one family when l say they went c
=. In the designations Of social life unit
=. the father dropped into lower sly
IN Of dissipation. and after awhile Il
- son was tossed out into society no
:. entity and after awhile the daught
-. sloped with French dancing. maste
~ and after awhile the mother. gettil
u o. further and further in years, I'll
IA to hide the wrinkles but tails in Il
80 attempt, trying all the arts of Il
%. belle, an old hirt poor miserab
w. Blu terDy without any wings.
80 On, how " of you have float
~. ~ Ear away from God through social d
IL, ipations and it is time you turn:
For rememb Dor that there were t.