DANCING WORST OF AMUSEMENTS.
The dance is the hotbed of iniquity, and I denounce it as the rottenest, most hellish, vice-producing institution that ever wriggled from the depths of perdition.
The dance is simply a hugging match set to music.
Dancing is not an innocent amusement. It has caused the downfall of more girls than anything else.
Three-fourths of the fallen women in big cities, fell because of the dance.
You’d just as soon husk corn by moonlight as to dance with your own wife. It’s the other fellow’s wife, some other fellow’s sister that you want to dance with.
A man will wallow and get so low he’ll have to climb a hill to get into hell, then make a bluff at reforming and society takes him in. Then at the dance he’ll breathe promises into the ears of some innocent young girl, gain her confidence and then ruin her.
You say you need exercise and that’s why you dance. All right, then, let women dance with women, and men with men.
The dance brings vice and virtue into such close contact that virtue loses.
Any church that encourages dancing is too low down to deserve the name of church.
If there are variations of hell, the dancer will crack brimstone in the hottest spot.
If there was nothing but card players and dancers in the church, how it would stink and rot!