The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-03-28
TORNADO ASSAILS
DANCE IN ST. MARKS
Dr.. Norris Opens Revival by
Deploring Exposure of Fem
mime Shoulders.
WANTS BABIES IN CHURCH
Texas Preacher Tells How He
Fought Brewers and ku
Klux in His State.

The Texas Tornado" more conven-
tionally known as the Rev. J. Frank
Norris of Fort Worth, reached toward
his hip pocket where rangers usually
carry their AS, and took several good
shots at New York niquities last night
The picturesque cowboy preachers Sc
ries or REVEALS will continue all week at
Calvary Baptist Church under the aus
pieces OF the pastor and the Rev. John
Roach Straton.
DR. Norris prayed over a church so
lost to the sense OF decency as to give
dances in the church yard, he deplored
the fashion of exposing more than
should be exposed of feminine shoulders
he suggested that babies be invited into
churches and made happy and comfort
able and asked God to deliver any
church from board of directors not
fit to run a little corner in He'll
The audience. about half men and
half women. burst into applause at
scme Of the Texas Tornado's" senti-
ments. and when he told of his personal
experiences in beating the brewers of
his native State. who were prepared to
30 to any lengths to run him out of the
TIlpit. and how he even met and van
dushed, single handed. men who had
taken the ku Klux oath to hang him,
the congregation shouted with joy.
Cites Need of Revival.
when church gives dances in the
churchyard, then this city needs the
greatest revival it has ever had the
Texas Tornado" said in a prayer. He
called on the Almighty to turn such folk
away from their terpsichorean celebra-
tons.
II notice that the description of the
dance service held in the historic Church
OF st. Marks in the Bouwerie Sunday
says that 1t was easy to see that the
dancers were barefooted and that one
az them had bobbed hair" the visiting
pastor remarked He referred to the
Della Robbia Annunciation held by the
Rev. William Norman Guthres church.
''One OF the signs of the breaking
down Of womanhood at this hour is the
exposure of her sacred person" he con-
| tinued. 1T is bad enough for the stage
to cheaper woman's person. but il is
enough to make angels weep and hang
Grape on the door of Heaven and to make
the devils dance for joy for church
to take barefooted. bobbed hair women
In order to exploit itself and keep itself
going. What are We coming to when
our churches openly turn the sanctuary
of worship into a place for the most
man?
1T takes no prophet to see where we
are drifting when leading women smoke
cigarettes. attend prize fights one day
and give dances in the churches next
day. II the people of this country and
all decent people do not wake up to the
perils of the times that we are liv,rs
in it will not be long until vice will cat
the heart out of the republic and Il
will become an easy victim TO any foe.
Diversion of Lunntics.
Il have been very charitable toward
dancers since / visited several years ago
the state Asylum for the Insane in San
Antonio and preached TO a group Of in
mates who happened to be in their right
mind for a short time. / noticed that
the asylum had a hard wood floor.
waxed and slick as glass, and ] asked
the warden why that was. He repl;e,l
that the only diversion and entertain
ment that the lunatics INDUCED in that
would cause them to forget their troubles
was dancing. But dancing in a church
Is different thing"
I'm not against wealth. he assured
his audience. and then asked ii they
knew that it's out of date to bring
babies into church. THE next genera
ton isn't being brought up in church.
What we ought to do IS to 90 out and
urge mothers with babies to come IN
and listen to the sermons. If baby
cries in my church | ask an usher to
give II a glass of water and fan it with
his hat. You can make a baby sleep
like deacon If YOU pay some atten-
| ton TO il"