The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-15

Reasons for Not Dancing.
A young lady in the West gave me
ten reasons why she didn't dance /
have never found ten better. II you
can give me any that are as good
or better. / will be thankful to you.
She said:
Dancing would lead me into
which are injurious to health and
usefulness.
Dancing would lead me into close
Icontact with pernicious company
that would corrupt good morals and
manners.
Dancing would require me to per-
init the freedom OF the other SEX
which I should be ashamed of and
which ] believe to be wrong.
Ministers and good people in gan
eral are opposed to dancing. and I
don't think IT Is safe TO set myself
up In opposition to them. II there
LIS any doubt. I want to be on the
safe side.
Dancing has bad name. and
mean to study the things that are
| lovely. pure and OF good reputation
Dancing is usually accompanied By
drinking, and drinking produces .
great deal of evil.
II am told that dancing is great
temptation to young men, and don't
want to do anything to lead them
astray.
Dancing would unfit the mind for
serious reflection and prayer, and /
will do nothing that will estrange me
| from my God and Savior.
There are plenty Of graceful ex.
srcises and amusements which have
| none of the objections which lie
against dancing. and as everything a
Christian does should be done unto the
Lord. I feel that dancing would Be an
! insult to God rather than CT honor. and
therefore I shall refrain from dancing.
| can't find ten more common nse,
| better. scriptural reasons than those
right there
| / wonder IL any of vou here have
ever been in Rome. In the Eternal CITY,
Have any of you ever visited that won
derful city OF St Peters cathedral?
Gibson says IL is the grandest pile ever
erected by the skill and the wealth OF
man. 1t took three hundred and thir-
| ty-seven years to build St Peters In
| Rome, ana II took the combined efforts
of fifteen architects. Among them
were Angelo and Raphael. Seven hun
bred and nifty six columns support that
great dome. hundreds Of feet In the
air. One hundred and twenty-ons
lighted lamps lighted oerretually b..
| fore the altar.
Some years ago a friend Of mine.
strolling through the labyrinth Of st
Peters heard some one clap his hands
and stamp his foot and say. attention.
| hats of, the pope is cominge'
| He said they instinctiveiy uncovered
their heads and looked Wonder came
Leo the Thirteenth in his covered chair,
carried by his famous Swiss guard. His
| face looked pale. sunk and aneEiic, ~
though the breeze from human breath
would blow him away. And they came
| tn ~ ~
the bones OF ST. Peter rest. ana the
pope dismounted.
+ Peter went to Rome A. n. ~. He was
crucihed with his head hanging down.
ward: ~3&
They aided the pope UP the steps and
he bowed in prayer. They took him
back, put him in the sedan chair and
Oh, Peter. fisherman OF GAlflee. vhae
wouldn't I give II could so 1--we and
serve my God in my day and genera
tion that when bid farewell to this
earth could leave behind me mon.
fament which would nerpsfra.a my
name as long as the earth A. yulA ttAn1
and associate It with the ghost Of
Jesns Christ. and the Bible. ID
| Little did Peter think when he bads
Eood-by to his boats and nets and Gals
lee and started to follow Jesus Chris
that he would send his mime ringing
down through the ages rs long - s,0.s
shall last until the die IL cast On
Peter. Peter. what wouldn't give II
could only serve him . day, winning
people from q life Of sin so that after
am gone. whenever my namo 10 men.
toned people would think Of Goa and
Jesus Christ and the blessed old gos.
pei that I have tried to preach af
these years!
Don't think OF what you have to xivs
| up: thing OF what you can DO for Got
in your day. Don't think OF what yov
have to give Up: be glad, be ginA
Like my friend Nathan Straus said
"Give the roof of your head for youi
country in these days and houre q
need"
There are multitudes Of thines ~
can do for our country and Goa d
i serving our generation. until they wil
never forget us In the days that aro q
come.
Gambling Den De Luxs RATED.