DANCING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2331, 26 June 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

DANCING.

Mr Jones' sermon's ,in Chicago are published in the daily papers more generally and -inpru .thoroughly than any.man's-sermoiis io 'this conntrv were' ever published; before. Ho ;hits. nil classes of-sinners as 'hard as ever. This is the way he goes for the fashionably ain of dnncing:—'" Some good sister—l know she is a gnod : woman, in a horn, comes out, this morning; and myssome .pretty-shaip -things aboM dancing. She says': ' DoiVt that ignoramus from Georgia Itno^tliafthe. Bible says' there"'is'a time'to dancet Why don't he tead his.Biblp.? 1 am a Christian mother,' and me anJ my children dance, and we dance because the Bible says there is a time to dance, 1 That is so too, I sometimes preach from that text. I dont want any dajice. b.ut there is a' time to dance. Yes, there is; .but I must fjo to the Bible lo find out what that time is. . I turn away .hack here and find that BfilshaZmr had a (lance in liis life. Ever'read about that? When all his glory and all that earth prizes were about,.to qrumble into ruin and desolation, he called up to , his musicians,, mid had a dance with the ' meue, niene, tekel' written upon the wall; and when ever a mail's glory is about to fade, away, all the glory he has,got, mid everything is crumbling about him khat is : worth having at.all, audall about to bid him a final adieu, that is die time to dance, and that is the'time; Weli, I read .of another dimce. He'rotl had a tlanci; at his house, and after lie run his dance •awhile his daughter pleased him ■ so much he said Ask anything you please and I will give it to yon.' That wicked wife of bis whispered in the'daughter's. ear, 'Ask for the head of Johsthe Baptist on a charger," She vliispered .it , into her father's ear, and they went to the jail and directly .bronglit the bloody head of that great man of God into that dance. Now, let'-me : tell you, when yon ar.e about to'shut Off the'fprnrunner of all, good and hush tlie. moutli of the great preparation ,fpr. the:;coming Christ, that is the time to have a dance. Get your whole business, rigged', up. Let us go back and take up Jepthah's daughter. She had a dunce at her house. Oh God bless you; if' yoii have any sense, to say'nothing of religion you.-dont want any'dances .at.:your, house' if you just see the time to dance, Remember the time to dance. ; Some of you have dances out of season; T; hope you reporters will get that correctly for the benefit of that dear"''' Christian that dances, and her children.' I ell her that there is,a time, Belshazzar found it, Herod found, it, and,, jeputhuli'B daughter found it," . • [..