The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-07-12

literature ID one Of the broadcast, high
eat, mightiest gates Of the lost
| Gate the second: The dissolut'
dance. You shall not divert me to thu
general subject OF dancing. Whatever
you may think Of the parlor dance o.
the methodic motion of the body tt
sounds of music in the family or the
social circle, l am not now discussing
that question. / want you to unite
with me this hour in recognizing the
| fact that there is q dissclOte dance.
You know of what speak. 1t 10 seen
not only in the low haunts OF death, but
| in elegant mansions. 1t is the first step
| to eternal ruin for great multitude OF
both sexes You know, my friends,
what postures, and attitudes. and hg-
ures are suggested of the devil. They
who glide into tho dissolute dance
glide over the inclined plane. and the
dance is swifter and swifter, wilder
and wilder. until with the speed OF
lightning they whirl of the edges OF .
decent life into a fiery future. This
gate of hell swings across the Axmin-
ster of many fine psrlor and across
the ballroom of the summer watering
place. You have no right, my broth
err, my sister--you have no right to
take an attitude to the sound OF music
which would be unbecoming In the abb
sence of music. No grand piano of
the city parlor or fiddle of mountain
picnic can consecrate that which God
has cursed.
Gate the third: Indiscreet apparel.
The attire of woman for the last few
years has been beautiful and graceful
beyond anything I have known; but
there are those who will always carry
that which is right into the extraordi-
nary and indiscreet. charge Chris
tian women, neither by style Of dress
nor adjustment of apparel, to become
administrative Of evil. Perhaps none
else will dare to tell you. so will tell
you that there are multitudes Of men
who owe their eternal .damnation
to what has been at differ
emit times the boldness of wom-
anly attire. Show me the fashion
plates Of any age between this and the
time of Louis XVI of France and
Henry VIII of England. and / will
tell you the type Of morals or inn
of that age or that year. No
exception to it. Modest apparel means
a righteous people. Immoral apparel
always means a contaminated and de-
PRAYED society. You wonder that the
city of Tyre was destroyed with such
q terrible destruction. Have you ever
seen the fashion-plate Of the city OF
Tyre? / will show it to you:
Moreover. the Lord saith, because
the daughters of Zion are naughty
and walk with stretched-forth necks
and wanton eyes, walking and mine
ing as they 60. and making tinkling
with their feet, in that day the Lord
will take away the bravery Of their
ornaments about their feet.
and their cauls, and their round tires
ike the moon, the rings and nose
Jewels, the changeable suits Of apparel,
and the mantles, and the wimples, and
The crisping pins"
That is the fashion-plate Of ancient
Tyre. And do you wonder that the
Lord God in his indignation blotted
out the city, SO that fishermen to-day
spread their nets where that city once
stood?
Gate the fourth: Alcoholic beverage.
Oh! the wine-cup is the patron of i'm
purity. The officers Of the law tell us
hat nearly all the men who 60 into
;he shambles of death, go in intoxi-
lated, the mental and the spiritual
that the brute may triumph.
Tell me that young man drinks,
ind 1 know the whole story. II
,e becomes captive of the wine
,up, he will become a captive of
Ill other vices; only give him time.
No one ever runs drunkenness alone.
That is carrion-crow that goes in a
lock, and when you see that beak
ahead, you may know the other beaks
ire coming. In other words, the
wine-cup unbalances and dethrones
one's better Judgment, and leaves one
the prey of all evil appetites that
may choose to alight upon his soul.
There is not place of any
kind of sin in the United States
to-day that does not find its chief
abettor in the chalice of inebriacy.
There is either drinking-bar before,
or one behind, or one above, or one
These people escape le-
gal penalty because they are all IL
censed to sell liquor. The courts that
license the sale of strong drink, license
houses. license libertinism,
license disease, license death. license
all sufferings, all crimes, all despolia-
tons, all disasters, all murders, all
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