Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-11
SERVICE HELD FOR THE AGED
Shuns Brought from all Sections in Large Numbers to Revival Service-Contribution to United Workers Filled church-Dr. Slough Opposes Round Dancing Against Good Morals

packages of all shapes and sizes com-. pletely covered the platform. Canned goo Is, loaves of bread, several squashes, a f.w articles of clothing, and packages that evidently contained a great variety of groceries made up the big collection At the request of Dr. Slough they are all to be distrib- uted today by Rev. c. H. Northrop of the United Workers.
 The congregation at the evening ser- vice filled the church and joined heart fly in the stirring song service led by the choir. conducted by Mir. Spooner. As announced the previous evening, Dr. Slough gave talk on dancing be- fore he proceeded to the sermon of the evening. Dancing, he said, he classed with card playing not as mortal sin, for a person could sbe a. Christian and dance. But it was the kind of danc- ing he was about to condemn. and he said there was no more likeness be- tween the dancing mentioned in the scriptures and the modern dancing in parlors or nice homes, than between the oxcart and the auto as a means of locomotion. The old fashioned 1ninuet of the time of George and Martha Washington, the Virginia reel, and the old fashioned square dance he did not criticise, but the modern round dance he characterized as morally wrong SE
 Dancing is wholly a moral ques- tion. Music and motion do not make that thing right morally which is oti1- erwise wrong, but the round dance is a social amusement which has filtered into vogue and has been accepted by modest refined, delicate and sweet women as right for them to indulge in. And this is the thing that is taught in connection with social set
 
 women as wholesome and moral. It is improper and irnmodest for any gen. tleman or woman who would conform to the highest standards of ethics and refinement in our intersocial relations. No man under any circumstances at any time or any place has any right to take any liberties-with woman's person. but the round dance has been permitted to work its way into soci- ety to the demoralization of modesty and that indescribable something which makes all that is sweetest in woman. What law of ethics permits me, because the music is playing and I'm keeping step with her, to- do trat which she would not permit at any other time? (Applause.)
 But the excuse will be presented that it is impossible to dance perfect ly otherwise. It Is no question of now lar dTOullQ d HOiidu AAAS the arm is placed, but when such con- tact is permitted by me nand women as is required by the modern round dance, you have clearly put people in places where they are bound to be tempted I needn't say more than that to an intelligent audience.
 Dr. Slough also denounced dance halls as the recruiting places for the white slave traffic, and stated that on- ly on Tuesday night the police of this city had been on the trail of two men who had plan all laid to take two girls out of this. city and debauck them. He also said that all statistics proved that dancing produced more ! fallen women than all other causes | put together, and in conclusion asked his audience to remember that he was not saying that all who dance hac l impure thoughts, but to turn these things over in their minds and see il there was not a grain of truth in what he had said.