Rev. T. K. Beecher on Dancing.
By Editor
I WISH some Christian families would club together this winter, regardless of church lines and denominational fences, and carry through a series of select assemblies, at which the cost will be small, the hours seasonable, the fare plain, the company select, the dance decent, the floor-masters deacons, the musicians choir members, the managers clergymen, and the net results health, happiness, society, unity, intelligence, charity, plenty and peace.—Charlotte Repub. We had supposed that happiness society, unity, intelligence, charity, &c., were to be secured through the exercise of legitimate Christian privileges, not by a resort to private dances. But it seems that the reverend gentleman, having, in his unconsecrated use of the Lord's weapons, failed to secure those blessings, now advocates a resort to the Devil's implements, with an expectation of gaining them through these. This is exactly like Saul's seeking for light to the witch of Endor, after the Lord had left him, and answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.