A LADY'S REASONS FOR NOT DANCING.
By Central Baptist
1. DANCING would lead me into crowded rooms and late hours, which are injurious to health and usefulness. 2. Dancing will lead me into very close contact with pernicious company; and evil communication corrupts good manners. 3. Dancing would require me to use and permit freedom with the other sex, of which I should be heartily ashamed, and which I believe to be wrong. 4. My parents and friends would be anxious about me if I were out late, keeping company with they knew not whom. 5. Ministers and good people generally disapprove of dancing, and I think it is not safe to set myself up against them. If a thing be even looked upon as doubtful, I wish to be on the safe side. 6. Dancing has a bad name, and I mean to study things that are pure and lovely and of good report. 7. Dancing is generally accompanied with drinking, and I see drinking produces most of the evils of the present time. 8. I am told that drinking is a very great temptation and snare to young men, and I do not wish to have anything to do with leading them astray. 9. Dancing unfits the mind for serious reflection and prayer, and I mean to do nothing to estrange me from my God and Saviour.