Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1922-07-12
BANK WITH.US I

they placed the humble little log
church side by side with the log cabin
on the new American soil, and thanks
Fbe to God it stands yet today as a de-
fiant force against the dance evil. Men
of the sturdy Morse type, why, I say
why shall we leave the beauty spots
of nature to be polluted by the dance
evil? Are we so poor and helpless as
all that? Can we truthfully answer
before God and say We could do
nothing. It reminds of the time of
Israel before the Babylonian captivity,
when the beauty spots of nature were
taken for the Baal worship with it's
shameful practices. Men from Dial:
arne, from neighboring provinces and
brethren from Norway, as our fore
fathers rallied around Gustavus Vasa
in the 18th century to do or to die for
freedom, SO let us today, sons of the
Vikings, rally around the town board
of Fahlun township to fight the dance
devil to finish. y
Mr.. Editor, if we have a choice, and
if we must accept the one or. the 9TH
er, we say: Let us have the muskrats
and the mosquitoes, but from the
dance evil deliver US, because "the
modern dance is but carnal indul-
gence that ruins both body and soul.
Sleep is neglected, health is impaired,
and the physical body endangered.
And as a result of such nightly orgies
the Lords Day is desecrated, <man' s
will affected, and conscience is dulled.
You might as well attempt to hold in
your hand a red hot iron, without burn.
| ing yourself, as to dance without be-
ing endangered for time and eternity.
Did you-ever stop to think how the
modern dance is carried on? Simply
the thought of it makes one shudder.
When an innocent girl SO loses her
self-respect as to throw herself into
the, arms of a man whom perhaps she
has never seen before, and of whose
character. she knows nothing, don't
you think. my young friend, that this
oversteps all bounds of decency? Does
it not prove to you that the dance fos
ters and furthers desire for improper
relations between man and woman:
In our large cities especially, the
dance hall is but a veritable dollhouse
for breeding all kinds Of vice, immoral.
Iity and righteousness. Do not think
we are picturing too darkly. It is but
an unvarnished truth. A prominent
i dancing master says, that the dance il
it's immoral consequences can we'll be
compared with the evils of the saloon
What terrible confession from one
who for many years has been a skill
ed instructor in this satanic art.
"A Christian will not dance. Thi!
is self-evident. You cannot dance ant
be child of God. No one can serve
two masters. When worried and dis
heartened, where do you go? To The
dance hall? Would you die there? "No'
hear you say, mot for anything in til,
world Well, then, why go there a
any time? Can you take Jesus will
Iyou to the dance hall? Never go wher,
you must leave Jesus behind: Neve
bride your conscience. Do not gam
BILE with your souls salvation. Mocl
not your God, for he will not be. mock
ed. Break loose from the world, vol
J don't need its ularity. Let not tn
Z devil deceive you. It certainly is true
that when you once become a Chris,
i ian,# YOU can no longer dance, as syol
4 will then realize that s.dancinpr ID, Al