The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-18
THE HARM OF DANCING
Sixty Per Cent of Men and Women on
the Stage Immoral.
CARO.PARTIts WORSE THAN GAMBLING
Every One Has Some Besetting Sin That Holds
Him Back. If One Little Thing is Wrong,
All Goes Wrong. A Soul Can be
Damned by One Sin.

DaIlneu ny Vic oiHs
Although Mr.. Stuart said that Sat-
urday night was usually an off night
for religious services and that he gen
orally looked for only half meeting
on that night, the church was filled to
the utmost last night. He commenced
by saying that he wished to set the
audience right on one point. Some such
remarks as the following were report
ed to have been made:
Brother Stuart had better Jump on
the Methodist Church. The very place
he breaches in owns stock in the Acar
Siemy of Music" He stated that he
had raised the question and had found
out the facts in the case to be as fol-
lows: Some time ago benevolent gen
tleman bequeathed some property to
the Methodist Orphanage, the trustees
thereof to have their choice of the
, property, which included an interest
in the Academy Of Music and a con-
siderable sum in cash. The property
is still in the hands of the executors,
and the trustees of the Orphanage
have not yet made their choice.
He announced that this afternoon
at o'clock he was going to preach
i'll the Academy of Music, a sermon
that he hopes will be talked about in
Raleigh When Gabriel blows his trum-
pet. He first preacher his sermoi to
eight thousand people in Atlanta and
Bishop Galloway said it was a gift of
Divine Providence. 1t was preached
on that occasion without any prepare
ton.
The sermon last night was on the
besetting sin. The Bible does not
say: If thy right eye offend thee,
put eye-water in 1T, and doctor it, or,
If thy right hand offend thee, tie it be-
hind thee or put it in a Singer hold
it," ''lt is better to be one-eyed to
Heaven than two-eyed to hell, or one
handed to Heaven than two-handed to
hell. 1T is better to get to Heaven
anyway
1T won't do to be all right, except
for one little thing. The average,
pretty well, won't 90. If one little
thing is wrong, ali will GO wrong. All
"a hog wants IN a ten-rall fence is one
rotten rad. All the devil wants in
line character is one weak spot.
soul can lie damned by one sin. One
little wheel going wrong on the loco
motive will wreck the whole train.
One spike loose in one rail Will cause
Il complete smashup. One little valve
fails TO work and the whole engine
blows up.
That woman is all right but she
plays cards" | think one of the ours
es of the age is the card among Wo-
men. 1t is a thoroughly demoraiizing
influence, debauching and damning
This whole country. On one occasion,
when l was pastor of church, | read
in the paper OF certain lady giving
progressive euchre party at her house.
Il he next Sunday she and her hus-
band and all the guests at the party
EXCEPT two were at church. | describ-
ed two institutions in the town, one
nauor saloon on a back street, with
"a table in the back, on which was a
greasy pack of cards, four Desotted
men playing seven-up for 25c game,
and a black bottle from which they
took a drink after each game. The
other is a brilliantly lighted and dec
GRATED home in the fashionable part
of town, where a company OF stylish
ladies and gentlemen are gathered,
playing progressive euchrc. In the
hall is a large bowl with a ladle IN
it and filled with what they call
punch. In the parlor is the cut-glass
vase for which they are playing as
a prize. | fear that disreputable sa-
loon less than | do the fashionable
card party, for our boys Will not be
attracted into that saloon; they are
too heightened, but they see the best
people in the town at the card party.
The progressive euchre party is worse
in the sight of God than any gamb-
ling hell IN this town. You've got 10
quit that gambling or go to hell.
feared that / had offended some OF
my best friends, but after the sermon
the lawyer and his wife who had CIV
en- the party, came up and gave mt
their hands and said they would never
touch another card"
Il never saw a pious woman IN my
life that played cards. 1t is the abso-
lutte destruction of all home piety ana
home religion. never saw an altar OF
religion in home where there was
card-playing. / never saw a woman
who would help to save souls that
played cards"
"Another woman is all right, but
she dances. The figures OF the dance
are aimed at two pillars that hold up
Noman-modeSty and virtue. INT
dance is the DEVILS organized method
of destroying modesty by institutional
methods. If it isn't right to hug in
private, it isn't right to hug in pub
ne. The institution is socially wrong
The place of the dance-public halls al
is not conducive to modesty. The
hours of The dance-from o'clock al
night until early dawn in the morn
ing-are those when men and women
are weakest, designedly so. The dress
of the ballroom is suggestive and vo-
luptuous. The dance brings drink &C
young men and recklessness ana
carelessness to young women.
''That man is all right but ne goes
to the theater.' Sixty per cent OF al
the men and women on the American
stage are immoral characters. Can
afford to endorse by my presence sue
an institution as that.
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