DANCING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3175, 29 October 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

DANCING.

PneACHrso in Banbury Cliuroh one Sunday lately to the members of thf Prince Albert Lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellow*, who were celebrating their anniver.-ary, the Bishop of Chester said that in both Testaments j>y was recognised as a necessary and a moat wholesome part of tho human life. It they took away joy the sunshine went out of their lives-, and their whole nature began to dwiudle away. The joy on such occasions as this should howevor, bo marked by tho fp.rit of temperance and self-control. He saw that among their entertainments.there was to be dancing. Not one word could he say against dancing, for the Bible and Gol in nature spoke of dancing. Surely it was He who put it into the feet and limbs of young children. It was a natural thins?, but like many other good things it had its attending perils, and it was far better for them, the older ones, to recognise that frankly, and to see that dan'i ng was carried on under wide and modest restrictions. He asked the younger people to enter upon it with watchfulness and selfrestraint, with modesty, with mutual respect, and with something of the true spirit of chivalry, which was fo deeply allied with the spirit of Christianity.