Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1899-05-18

and Bishops when assembled in Plenary
Council in Baltimore:
I'm this connection, we consider it to
be our duty to warn our people against
those amusements which may easily
become to them an occasion Of sin, and
especially against the fashionable
dances, which. as at present carried on,
are revolving to every feeling of deli
cacy and propristy, and are fruught
with the greatest danger to morals"
A priest recently remarked in con-
versation: Another argument for the
confessional, we at least have the adj
vantage of knowing when our people
fall, where they fall and how they fall;
and we have found that almost every
lapse of female virtue in our commu-
MON is traceable to the round dance
No wonder that their letters and ser
mons are so severe. From the pope
downward, through archbishop and
bishop, clergy and laity, the Catholic
church hiss taken this high ground CON
Corning bn6 uduCe.
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
4 Is often thought to be most lax CON
corning these amusements
1t is not true of that church or her
priests wherever they are deeply en-
gagged in mission or soul saving work
it is only the careless non-raviyal or
non-mission church that encourages
these things. Bishop Hopkins of Yer
mont, senior bishop, wrote as follows
In the period of youthful education,
I have shown that dancing is charge
able with waste of time, the interrup.
ton to useful study, the indulgence Of
personal vanity and display and the
premature iucitement' OF the passions
At the age of maturity it adds to these
no small danger to health, by late
hours. fimsy dresses, heated rooms and
exposed persons; while its incongruity
with strict Christian sobriesy and prin
ciple, and its tendency to the love Of
, dissipation. are SO manifest, that no in
genuity can make it consistent with
the covenant of baptism. 1t would
give me sincere pleasure to have ex
pressed a very different opinion, be
cause I am well aware that few of ms
readers will relish my unaccomodatinl
sentiments on such q theme But can
dor and honesty forbid, and I may no.
sacrifice what believe to be the truth
, in the service of worldly expediency
Il l had space I could quote from
a Bishop Meade of Virginia or Bishop
! MeElvaine of Ohio or Bishop Coke o
New York, the last two uniting thu
most severe arrangements that have
ever seen, they attack all four of thest
questions.
= THE MORMON POSITION.
, refer you to the Doctrine and Cove
!. nants, section SO, 5 8, and also to til
). Journal of Discourses. Indiseriminat
a dancing is condemned by the churcl
+ authorities and intemperance of al
i, kinds rebuked.
"a THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
y In their Confession of Faith affirm
;, that drunkenness, dancings, stag
- plays and all other provocaSions to, o
acts of uncleanliness either in ourselve
n or others are forbidden by the sevent
Is commandment. The General Assembl
e has also declared as follows:
,r This assembly wonld affectionatel
B. exhort ell other members of the Presbl
So terrain church to practice the most cart
full watchfulness in avoiding all racrea
1e tons and amusements, whether in til
1e form specified in the memorial or othei
e. wise; which are calculated to impat
spirituality lessen Christian infueno
or bring diseredit upon their profe
op sion as members of the Church {