DANCING
Bishop Pierce, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in a sermon entitled “ The Church in the World,” (which is published as a tract,) says of dancing:—“ I confess I have no patience with it, no toleration of it. I think it is the silliest, the most nonsensical amusement that rational beings, so called, ever engaged in. It is heathenish in its origin, a pastime of savages, it is a part of idolatrous worship, lewd, sensual, obscene. This is its history. It appeals to the lower instincts of humanity, and is the chosen sport of the vilest and most imbruted of our race. The slums of society everywhere revel in it. Rowdies and prostitutes —these are its patrons. It is wicked, vile in its origin, yet worse in its low associations, and, worst of all, in its last analysis. It has been refined, polished, I grant, but it cannot be dignified nor elevated. The venom of the serpent is in it, the taint of its birth, the virus of its constitution is miserable. It is evil, only evil, and that continually.”
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1109, 29 July 1882, Page 4
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181DANCING Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1109, 29 July 1882, Page 4
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