A Bishop in Praise of Dancing
Preaching in Buntyry Church one Sunday lately to the members of the Prince Albert Lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, who were celebrating their anniversary, the Bishop of Chester said that in both Testaments joy was recognised as a necessary and a most wholesome part of the human lite. It they took awavjoy the sunshine went out of their lives, ami r heir whole nature began to dwindle away. The joy on such occasions as this should, however, be marked by the spirio o. temperance and self control. He saw that among their entertainments there was to be dancing. Not onß word could he say against dancing, for the Bible and God in nature spoke of dancing. Surely it was He who put it into the feet and limbs of children. It was a natural thin«, but like many other good things it had'its attending perils, and it was far better for them, the olaer ones, to recognise that frankly, ami to see that dancing was carried on under wide and modest restrictions. He asked the younger people to enter upon it with watchfulness, with self-restraint, with modesty, with mutual rebpect, and with something ot the true spirit of chivalry, which was so deeply allied with the spirit of Christianity.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 22, 9 August 1892, Page 4
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