The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-10
SCORED DANCING
AND COURTSHIP
TRAPS ARE SET BY SATAN.
A FRUITFUL CAUSE OF RUIN, SAYS
EVANGELIST MCCONNELL.

MOthers are Otleh careless IN Pick
ing Company With Whom DauEh-
tiers GO-Young Girls Subjected to
Temptation Mothers Little Dream
Of-MOdern Dance RoundIy scored
by Evangelist In Lecture to Wom-
en- OnIy-Has Heard Strange Con-
versatiOns .'After the Ball"
In his lecture-sermon to women only
yesterday afternoon from the subject,
Traps Of Satan" Rev.. Lincoln Nc
Connell roundly scored the modern
dance and modern methods of court
ship. The dangers resulting from each
were strongly emphasized, and an
earnest plea made to the women pres
ent to avoid them.
The text, or, as the speaker called
it, the pretext." was taken from
st. John, 11:2s. The Master is come
and calleth for thee" Rev. Mcconnell
said, in part:
"Psychologically speaking, there is
no difference whatever between a boy
or girl The same things that will
defile a boys mind will defile a girls
mind, and let me say to start with
that no boy or girl can be led astray
so long as the mind is pure. The
evil one knows this, and he bends all
his effort toward the destruction of
the mental chastity of boys and girls
So long as a. girl holds steadfastly to
the high standard of purity that she
should she is safe. but all manner of
traps are set by satan to defile her
mind.
There are many women and girls
who lend willing, though perhaps I'M
whiting, aid to the devil in this work
They deal out vulgar and suggestive
stories that fall into the minds of girls
with the inevitable result of polluting
them. l had rather she-bear would
come to my house than a foul-mind-
ed woman. The former could only eat
my little girls body if l didn't sue
coed in killing it. While the woman,
if left unmolested, will destroy her
mental chastity, which means soul
ruin. No woman is pure who is of I'M
clean mind
Bad Novels Dangerous.
Another danger is bad novels. Many
a girl takes into the secret recesses of
her mind a character in a book, whom
she would not allow to touch her hand
in real life. Such reading, accustom-
ing the mind to tolerate scenes OF i'm
been the helpful agent of the devil in
securing the ruin of the life of many
girls.
TT is amazing the books many So
called pure girls will read No wonder
an easy approach is possible to so
many daughters in good families, when
they are mentally well acquainted with
the ways and manner of the rakes and
cnaracterless heroines who are the
- x,f.o hAx
delight in.
Another thing in this connection is
the strange behavior of mothers in
allowing their girls to go with all sorts
of men. You mothers in Savannah
turn your innocent, ignorant girls over
to the men who pay them court, and
away they go to Tybee or Thunderbolt
or somewhere else, to be subjected to
temptations that you little dream Of.
The wonder is that more hearts are not
broken than are. 81
Forearm by Forewarning.
"Why on earth do you show so little
sense along this line? 1t is too late to
warn when the feet are already en-
tangled and the shame has come. You
ought to forearm by forewarning, and
protect your precious girls
Due YOU soy my uluSneSi 10 eDO'c
suspicion. God help you. Your daugh-
ter is but human, and to deal with
her in loving sfaithfulness and not al
low her to go where she may be sub
jected to temptation is but, your duty.
Proper discretion is not suspicion.
Last, but by no means least. as II
danger, comes the modern dance. No
amount of endorsement by society, nor
shifting at the prudish ideas of REFORM
ers, can conceal the fact that thous-
ands of girls are sent downward every
year by this agency.
II am not saying that every woman