Proper Training
Whichbring joy, happiness, wealth, long life and a resting place in the heaven above?
I will not picture to you the history of our great men and leaders who have climbed to the top rung of the ladder of life, from the proper training, and the great battles that have been won for God and man, but a few needed points of our home life and ourselves, because we have not this great power.
First, we as a race do not know how to serve God and be a valued soldier and defend our race, because we have not had the proper training.
We do not respect our country, towns, churches, societies, homes, wives or husbands and our children do not respect us, schools or teachers. Because a large majority of the race have not had the proper training.
This is a sad and serious question that I picture to you, and without being remedied it will drag down the moral standard of Israel and blot her out forever.
But with the powerful brain cultivated and that strong mind properly trained she will be as brave as David of old, as powerful as a giant and a God-fearing citizen.
What power has proper training? It has the power of the professional boxer who sidesteps many death blows, which if landed, would have blotted out his life forever, but he played with his antagonist because he feared him not. The great power of training was at his command.
The proper training only fits us and prepares us to meet the severe struggles of life, and to overcome the terrible death blows that are delivered and struck at us. We walk in his ring, and we must be prepared to dodge his blows.
The ballrooms, picnics and excursions are some of his strong blows, because he strikes the untrained, who cannot defend themselves. The only way to dodge him is to train your boys and girls before they enter society or the ball room.
A boy or girl who goes to a public dance or picnic without a guardian or the proper training, usually becomes the victim of some society shark. If this shark can successfully drag the untrained party over the floor and make him think he is having a good time, then he has fallen into the shark’s power and is at his mercy, and the parents have lost all control of the child. Nine out of ten never recover. He may be like the bread that is cast upon the sea and tossed by the great waves. Perhaps he may have been picked up by a beautiful seagull, only to be dropped to the filth of the earth, or to the depths of an unfriendly sea. To dodge this blow, you must be trained by a professional who is of a good understanding, knowing his business, an honest and respectable God-fearing person of good standing.
During my twelve years’ experience as a dancing master, I discovered the foundation of the great sin which is connected to the great art of professional movement, no dancing master has published. They have not stopped to give a thought. But for the sake of the people as a race, I must picture the facts to you and trust God for the results.
The facts are a modifier to this subject. As a race of people, we have proved to the world that we must have music and public receptions, and most of us have better than we can afford; results are that our expense is beyond our income. Such being the case, we do not stop to consider our ball room etiquette or the moral training of our guests. We are glad enough to take a nickel or a dime, regardless to his or her training.
We come out of our churches and societies and form a committee to give this reception, as we call it. Some of us have never worked on a committee before.
You will send your child to a dance without the proper society training. Why? Because one of your church members is on the committee, and he himself has not the proper training, then how do you expect him to protect your child. Its like trying to make a square brick fit snug into a round hole.
You would not send that child to a dancing master’s reception, one who is of a good reputation and knows how to conduct one, or let him come to your house and teach your child the right way, how to shun all snares. Why? Because you have not the proper training yourself, and stand in the way of your child.
Carefully look over these facts, which I have outlined to you, and if you are honest with yourself, you will bear witness with me.
I am also prepared to back up this subject with facts of my life.