The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-21
BILLY SUNDAYS GREAT SERMON
ON SUBJECT OF ADJUSTMENTS

let them both stay under your roof
all night.
'1f you keep booze in the cellar get
out OF the church.
and cheat like the rest of them. But
I'm after the devil now: 1 don't care
where he shows his head;
Cards are socicty's contribution to
the forces that are dragging men to
hell.
There was time in America when
the stately cotillion seemed to satisfy
America, but 1t Is too slow for the
hot blood OF the goth century. They
must have something that will chase
hurdles through their veins. There Is
nothing SO insipid for the devotes Of
the waltz as to dance a Quadrille.
l remembers years ago by wife and
] went out to Kansas to see my mother.
and we went out into the country to
attend Fourth Of July celebration.
They had spread-eagle oratory and red
lemonade and the young fellows had
h -d-painted neckties that cost about
q cen cents, and little blue sashed
r riens fed them gumdrops and candy
hearts with reading on them. They
would spend az much as thirty cents
on them
ION the platform they were getting
eady for the quadril1e, A great big
fellow was the caller
for the dance. lie was a rough job.
q had just as soon be a chambermaid
in q livery stable.) He spit tobacco
juice enough to drown jackrabbit.
He got into chair and resfned his
old three strinsed fiddle and said.
salute your partner. forward and
back; everybody swing.
"A great big strapping country fell
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for a partner, and he threw his arms
around her and lifted her feet right
off the floor. and shot her heels right
at my head.
II bclive that most of the girls sold
as white shayes are enlisted from
the bathrooms The dance is the rot
tenest. most hellish. vice-producting
institution that ever wriggled from
he depths of perditior.
Certainly, l believe in amusements
but believe they should DC recrea-
tive. and not destructive.
God Forhids 1t.
The church of God forbids it. The
gre Attest and the most spiritual
churches forbids 1t and are against it.
Catholic, Presbyterian, Congregational.
the United Brethren and the Chris
tians are all against it.
THE Methodist Church was raise i
up for the very purpose of discounten-
ancing the dance in the church.
"Gol called Wesley and Whitfield
TO purify the Episcopal Church, and
that movemens which ehrystalized in
the Methodist Church was the rebuke
which God gave.
II know that there are some
churches that tolerate it--they dop's
encourage it--and any church that en-
courages it Is too low down to deserve
the names Of church
II will give you quotation from
a letter from the Bishops and Arch
bishops of the Catholic Church, which
says:
In this connection we consider 1t
our duty to warn our members against
: his amusement, which may become
to them an occasion IL sin. especially
the fashionable dance, which is dis
gushing and revolving and demoraliz-
Ing
The enomities OF the theater and
the dance would not be tolerated an
ether minute of the mothers would
only set their faces against them
Bishop Eincennes quotes from his
records that the waltz would not be
tolerated II Christian mothers would
only set their faces against ii and
remove their daughters from this con-
tamination.
Alas that women protesting to
follow Christ should not rally for the
honor of our daughters and drive these
things from society.
THE trouble is now the Church OF
God has become the clearing house
Cor the world. | have as good right
10 expect good of you as l have of
my wife and she has of me.
The dancing church member never
was a soul-winner. The dance Is sim
ply a hugging match set to music.
Dance Is Immoral.
THE dance is immoral. Every man
and woman carries a breast full of
ps ssions, the same as are possessed by
the bad, and those passions become a
ever brought into contact with the
empress The dance Is conductive to
immortality. In the dance and on
the ballroom floor you allow liberties
tc men that you never allow them
elsewhere. You grant them liberties
on the ballroom floor that II a man
other than your husband would at
tempt in your home and your hus-
hand would find you at 1t, he would
have no trouble in securing a divorce.
and il he shot the man no Jury in
the world would convict him for It.
Doesn't the swing or the dance
around the Corners throw men and
women in positions that are not toler-
ated elsewhere
Fathers and brothers--vou don't
seem to realize when your daughters
and sisters go to these dances they
meet strange men and associate with
cider women and learn to smoke and
drink: and you can bet that when a
girl gets so low that she will smoke
and drink she is on the toboggan
slide and going to hell fast 1t does
no harm to keep your daughter away
from dances. She runs a big risk, in
going. In Gods name, play the safe
side.
Where do you find your most ac-
dancers? In the brothels
The girls in these places do not come
from the poorer classes-not by a long
shot They are girls in many instances
from the upper crust Of society. Girls
who have taken dancing lessons.
Calls II Heilish
The dance Is the hotbed Of immor-
tlity and vice. and / denounce IL as
the rottenest. most hellish vice-pro.
ducing institution that ever wriggled
from the depths OF perdition. 1t liz not
innocent amusement. 1t is the worst
1t has caused the down.
fall of more girls that anything else
Six saloons do not do as much to rot
the morals of girls as one dancing
school. And this municipal dance hall
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