An account of the trial of social dance

Image 1 of An account of the trial of social dance AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRIAL OF Social Dance, BY REV. GEORGE DAVIS, PASTOR OF THE REFORMED CHURCHES OF MARBLETOWN AND NORTH MARBLETOWN, ALSO A MEMBER OF THE BAR OF ULSTER COUNTY, NEW...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 2 of An account of the trial of social dance TABLE OF CONTENTS. Preface 5 Chapter I—The Venue and Charge 7 Chapter II—Testimony of Young Christian 9 Chapter III—Testimony of Dr. Goodwill 14 Chapter IV—Testimony of Worldly Fun 16 Chapter V—Testimony of...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 3 of An account of the trial of social dance THE TRIAL OF SOCIAL DANCE. PREFACE. It is Easter Sunday today, dear reader, the anniversary of the Blessed Resurrection of our Savior. Two months prior to this date, if anyone should have...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 4 of An account of the trial of social dance case the pain, or resentment you may feel will show how unerringly the shaft of ridicule has found its proper mark. If you should discover some barbed arrow quivering in your vitals,...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 5 of An account of the trial of social dance THE TRIAL OF SOCIAL DANCE, THE VENUE. Kingdom of Jesus Christ—The Realm. PRESBYTERIAN PROVINCE. COUNTY OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMED, CHURCH. BEFORE THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER, Judges—The Eight Elders of...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 6 of An account of the trial of social dance 8 greatly shorn of its strength and influence, and the enemies of our blessed King and Savior are aided and abetted in their efforts to thwart the true glory of His reign,...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 7 of An account of the trial of social dance 9 was a great craning of necks among the bailiffs and on the part of the audience, but no one stirred in all the large assemblage. After waiting a moment or two...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 8 of An account of the trial of social dance 10 “Of late his appearance has been a great deal more frequent than when I first entered it.” “What is the attitude of the King's subjects toward him?” “Some repel him and...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 9 of An account of the trial of social dance 11 society of Social Dance do not seem to be settled in their own minds. Their consciences are not at rest. They are spiritually irritable and peevish. They are ready to take...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 10 of An account of the trial of social dance 12 find their way to the weekly prayer meeting. They have never been known to ask if the time might not be ripe for a revival. They have little or no longing...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 11 of An account of the trial of social dance 13 “Oh, that would be too funny to think about. The idea is perfectly ridiculous.” “Why so?” “Well, at least, as long as the minister is present Social Dance doubtless would not...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 12 of An account of the trial of social dance 14 CHAPTER III. Dr. Goodwill, next announced the King's Counsel. A portly, round faced gentleman with iron grey hair and eye-glasses came forward, was sworn and took his seat to be interrogated....

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 13 of An account of the trial of social dance 15 “The objectionable features of the dance are owing to the fact that it is cultivated so extensively after reaching maturity and by a promiscuous mingling of the sexes. As a factor...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 14 of An account of the trial of social dance 16 dangers to be apprehended from the mingling of the sexes in the dance that can readily be understood by any sensible person. These, however, belong to the province of the moralist...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 15 of An account of the trial of social dance 17 Social Dance sing is this: ‘We won't go home ‘till morning.’ Usually Social Dance does not permit his devotees to make out of that a mere empty jest. Of late, at...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 16 of An account of the trial of social dance 18 who were lightly attached to His person, being such as Christ calls the stony ground disciples, having but a little depth to their natures, being shallow characters in many respects, were,...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 17 of An account of the trial of social dance 19 “Mr. Worldly Fun, does it add any to the prestige of Social Dance to get this homage from the King's subjects?” “Somewhat, of course. There is a certain power in numbers....

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 18 of An account of the trial of social dance 20 able to see. They judge Social Dance from their own personal standard of regeneration and santification, which, however, is a false one, and those who are most deluded come at last...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 19 of An account of the trial of social dance 21 conscience. The King's subject must ‘keep the heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.’ That means the whole heart, for Christ says again, “Ye cannot...

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Image 20 of An account of the trial of social dance 22 A middle aged dapper looking individual came forward, and, after receiving the oath, took his seat at the end of the judge's bench. “You were formerly a dancing master, I believe,”...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 21 of An account of the trial of social dance 23 “But, professor, does not this embrace excite strong feeling?” “To be sure it does. That is the very object of it. It would not be worth very much without it.” “Professor,...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 22 of An account of the trial of social dance 24 “That will do, Professor,” said the King's Counsel. “Mr. Police Captain, next.” Being sworn, the first question put to the officer was as follows: “Captain, you are acquainted more or less...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 23 of An account of the trial of social dance 25 whom I am speaking, receive their price, so much per head, from the brothel keeper, for each fresh victim that is ensnared by them. Cases have been known where some Lothario...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 24 of An account of the trial of social dance 26 might become more graceful. She sent me to a dancing school, and little did I suspect the pitfalls that are connected with that institution. Well, you have heard something of the...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 25 of An account of the trial of social dance 27 “In a village in the eastern part of the State of New York.” “How old are you?” “Twenty-seven, last May,” was the answer, at which a suppressed murmur of surprise went...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 26 of An account of the trial of social dance 28 Turning to the King's Counsel, she replied that she could not answer his question for the reasons just mentioned. “Very well, that is all,” said the King's Counsel, “you may step...

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Image 27 of An account of the trial of social dance 29 Just so, St. Ambrose calls the dances “a choir of iniquity, the rock of innocence, the grave of shame.” St. Augustine says, “It would be better to tilt the ground on...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 28 of An account of the trial of social dance 30 gray hairs; I permit you to dance, my dear niece, on one slight condition.” “What is it?” “Will you promise to observe it?” “Certainly.” “Well, listen. You know, my niece, that...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 29 of An account of the trial of social dance 31 The reading of this last exhibit left a deep impression on the minds and consciences of the vast assemblage that was noticable to every one. In the hush that seemed to...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 30 of An account of the trial of social dance 32 influence of Social Dance. However, it is not all surprising to those familiar with the Word of Divine Inspiration. We read in II Tim., 3: “That in the last days perilous...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 31 of An account of the trial of social dance 33 be hugged by some half a dozen different men at least one evening in a week for a year or two before they have the proper poise and bearing for polite...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 32 of An account of the trial of social dance 34 commenced it. Neither after they have danced much or little will anyone else be any wiser in true wisdom, or any more “meet for the inheritance of the saints in light.”...

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Image 33 of An account of the trial of social dance 35 Will the woman who has chosen Him as the dearest of all friends, more than all earthly joys, go where He must leave her at the door into which He cannot...

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Image 34 of An account of the trial of social dance 36 just, instead of reeling through the night in that mad, exciting fashion, you could have dispensed with those costly viands entirely. Think you that He who said, “(lather up the fragments...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 35 of An account of the trial of social dance 37 relation reaches down link by link, unbroken from what you are pleased to call your safe height, to the lowest depths of sin and shame? Is it any satisfaction to you...

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Image 36 of An account of the trial of social dance 38 Columbus, has said that “Dancing is the broadest door to the moral ruin of American womanhood ”; that “The conditions of the ball room are sensuous and passion kindling”; that “no...

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Date: 1899-01-01

Image 37 of An account of the trial of social dance 39 included in the party. Could not such a company be held with comparatively little or no danger? As a matter of abstract theory we will answer, Yes. But we are not...

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Image 38 of An account of the trial of social dance 40 man with a good pair of legs under him and a medulla oblongata in the head can dance just as well as if he had a cerebrum that weighed fifty-two ounces....

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Image 39 of An account of the trial of social dance 41 and pleasures, which were as nothing compared with the welfare, the prestige, the glory of the Realm.” Finally urging upon the jury to find a verdict as speedily as possible and...

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Image 40 of An account of the trial of social dance 42 and sentence pronounced in the absence of the guilty convict, in order that the King's subjects, if any of them should discover Social Dance skulking about the Realm, might know what...

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