The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-04

! ltllt dAl JUN hdHNEt " Alt IEOnk
and back: swing your pardners."
a great big. strapping. broad
shouldered country fellow, big
enough TO pull a street car. wrapped
his arms around a girl that he had
| for his partner and lifted her OF
the floor and shot her heels right
out like that.
Can't Explain Dance.
I said to Nell. This dance busi-
ness all looks alike to me-"
oh, yes--sure! SO there is MOTH
/ Ing so insipid, absolutely, "a dane
\ ing. Even the common walks OF
| life engage in II. The cut from the
square to the round isn't too long.
! II should ask them to give
reason why 1t Is all right to dance,
they couldn't do It. Your love for
these things keeps you away from
| Christianity, keeps you away from
Jesus Christ. Anything that keeps
you away from Jesus Christ is harm
! ful, whether it's something that [
name or not. Anything that will
keep God out OF your heart. 1t may
be your love for money or pride, I
don't know what 1t may be, but 1t
doesn't make any difference so far
as that Is concerned, so long as it
keeps God out Of your heart 1t is
| harmful. But there are more ave-
nues for young boy or girl to go
crooked In today than ever before.
and IL you will listen to me / think
! | can help you.
1he church OF God forbids dane
.ng. The greatest and the most
lspiritual churches forbid 1t, and are
against IL. all denominations, Cath
Io.ic, Presbyterian, Congregational
The Methodist church was raised up
Dy God Tor the very purpose OK
counteracting dancing.
God called Wesley 10 purify tho
Episcopal church, and the movement
which crystallized into the Meth
odist churcn was the rebuke which
God gave through Wesley. They
started out with no intention of
starting n new church, but with the
intention OF purifying their own de-
nomination and driving the evils out
Of Il. That's all I'm trying to do. 1
wouldn't start another denomination
II | could. | have had people offer
me all kinds of money IL ia only
start new church. l had one wom-
an worth millions OF dollars say: II
you will start a church in New York
I'll give you t25,0O0 a year"
said: Il don't want your money.
no thank you: | don't want it."
! am going to try and purify the
ones that are already established,
that's my mission on earth. And IL
you'd give me Sl0.O00,000 year, I
wouldn't start a new denomination,
but Id try and drive the devil out
Of the ones we have already got.
oh, no, l don't want anything OF
that kind--not at all. l am trying
my level best to show you what God
wants you to do and how He would
have us live In the universe. and
another thing, Bishop Hopkins-oh,
lie was the senior bishop OF YER
mont, one OF the noblest men that
ever lived in the Episcopalian
church--said: Dancing IL terrible
waste OF time and OF study and
premature incitement OF passion"
Why, IL is incompatible with strict
christianity and irreconcilable with
the gospel OF Jesus Christ.
Bishop Cox. whose name used to
be household word in New York,
and no grander man ever lived than
lie, he was a dandy, he said. THE
enormities of the theatcr and the
dance would not be tolerated another
minute IL the mothers would only
set their faces against them"
Glasses preparing for conftrma-
ton are notified by him that he will
not lay hand upon them unless they
are prepared to renounce their sins.
God, give us more men like that and
help us in this old universe!
And Bishop Vincennes in his little
book entitled You'd Better Not
says the waltz would not be toler-
ated another year in society II moth
ers would only remove their daugh-
ters from It's contamination against
womanhood and modesty.
Alas! that women protesting 10
follow God and Christ should not
rally for the honor OF their sex and
drive these dances from society.
II would be shocking to see any
body leave the communion cup and
go for a dance under the preteXt
that It was for relaxation or exer-
else: 1t would be equally shocking
TO see anybody leave a ballroom
and sit down and partake or COM
munion.
II there were nothing In the
church but dancing and card play
ing. 1t wouldn't exist, II would go
down into wreckage as sure as you
live. SO want you TO love the
church OF God. and | am trying to
get rid OF these things that dras
you away from Christ.
Somebody said TO me: "Blll, the
church is too strict"
deny the charge in toto. Who
can show that any part or the
church Is too strict? In the average
|
bars are so low. ff he has two or
three suits on his back. And IL one
church won't take him In. some
other church around the corner WIN
the name orthodox will take him IN.
So there you are. and where are
we drifting to?
Oh. the church loves It's youns
people and God is indulgent WIZ
them. It doesn't want to see them
adritt out upon the high seas OF
this old world-it is unspiritual
Dancing seems TO be nugginS
match set to music, is about tho
only way can figure II out, ana
J when Ii Hung Chang, the grea,
Chinaman, came TO THE country ana
was in New York, they took MN
around 10 let him see a dance, IL
looked at It and he said 10 one 93t
his friends: why don't they st
down and hug?"
That's a good one! He couldn't
see any use in all that Just for
hug. That seemed TO be all he eouIo
figure out OF IL, my friends
Now, it's crusade for aU-hol
simply some of you old rheumatic,