Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-07-06

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was brought ia on 4 charger as q
reward for the dance Of q lewd mo'
man beforea degenerate king, 5
Well, Mack, what do you think
OF the boil weevil wiggle, the Texas
Tommy tango, the bunny hug, the
bear dance, the, tickle-toe, the buz.
card flop, the puppy glide, cheek and
shimmyY" | think they are the last
sights of dances that are tolerated
in private houses, and thhF are
laughed at as though they were an
absurdity of fashion. God pity that
mother who allows her daughter to
wrestle around on aibaif room floor
in the arms of men. Do YOU think
if man was dying in the city OF
Rockingham that heIwHuia send to
some of your dance halls and ask
some of the girls there toI please
dress and come down and pray for
him? And you all know that it is
based on. the consciousness of SEX
You say, but can't a fellow dance
with his wife or daughterg What?
You might as well epeet 4 fellow to
kiss shoat in the moonlight be-
hind a barbed wire fence as for
him to dance with his wife OF
daughter. 1t is somebody's else wife
or daughter you want to dance with
In the old-fashioned stately dance
they used to touch finger Gpsi you
could sit between them and study
the heavens with a telescope = Now
adays it would bother you to find
light enough between them TO. look
through a telescope. If an ,iilp9,hi abi-
stant of Mars were to drop doYn on
modern ball room floor be would
report on his return l saw strange
beings, possessing one upright
body, four legs and two heads, and
they were wobbling about in
strange manner. 1t is Said that OF
100000 public prostitutes in America
today $4,000 lost their virtue, by
way of the dance.
No. Mary did not lose Christ in
those questionable places. Brother
sister, you do not lose Christ by do
ing questionable things. You did not
lose Christ the day you got checked
up to the gills on red liquor, because
Christ and red liquor do not stay
in the same hide. You lost Christ
hack. there when the thought o.
these things rane into your lhAiy.!
Remember who Mary smasYF Shs
was the hottest woman Ethat Y eVei
lived. She was The pureste soul that
God ever made in the form oflWo
man, but she lest Christ She. Host
him at the service in sthel temple
;mopg the holy things, lipFfa lholy
atmosphere, With holy surroundings
And ! wish that I had a Texas fl
an auditorium, a Pixies Peak foF'la
pulpit and voice like thesheaViest
thunder, and the eloquence ofIWhit'
field, so that | could cryptic allost
world, Come back to CHRISTIE NY
Why have | said these things
To show you tina: you need9not be
an outrageous sinner to lose Him
You need not paint the city red
You may be very rigid in the con.
formity to the ordinances of the
church and you may be in good
standing with the rules of your par.
.ticular denomination, and yet lose
Him. And you will have to do the
same thing that Joseph and Mary
did. You will have to tramp back
over the road you have come
though it may mean an aching
heart, a tear stained face and bleed
ing feet, but you will find Him
where you left Him. The prodigal
son found his father when he Re
turned to the old homestead. y David
found the Lord while confessfng, his
sin through, which he had left Him
It's the going back, the weary trampFF
home that some of us do not, like
1t is the conspicuous march, But
brotherA you will have to go baGik X, to
the spot, to the hour, to the thing
and talked to God about that thing,
Mary had to go back to the temple
Some of you will have to- put your
nose on the back track and clean up
your past life. Some of you viii
have to disgorge what you have in
YOUR pockets. because YOU are living