I do not mean to say that all the young men go to drinking saloons as soon as they carry their girls home, or as soon as the ball or dance is over.  No, many of them go to other places, such as are described in the 5th chapter of Proverbs. Men will not deny this.  Who caused these men to go to these places?  Shall I answer?  Shall I tell the truth?  If I do, I must say it is the virtuous wives, daughters, sisters and sweethearts, who have been participating in the dance. Every man knows that this is true.  Let every honest physician send in a report of all his male patients, giving the disease of each and the cause, and then let us have a correct report from the dead of the same kind, and I am confident that no husband, father or brother would ever permit his wife, daughter or sister to be seen at a ball or dance.  HUSBANDS, FATHERS, BROTHERS, your wives, daughters and sisters do not know these things, but you do know them, and now that your eyes are open, will you, can you, as a husband, father or brother, ever permit the females under your care to even take the chance of being RECRUITING OFFICERS for these sinks of perdition, THESE ANTE-CHAMBERS OF HELL.  These places, dripping with the blood of hundreds and thousands of young and middle-aged men, who, but for their enchantment, might have been good and true men, and have filled honorable graves.  These places have broken the hearts of thousands of wives, mothers and:  sisters, when they have seen their loved ones bound in the fetters and chains of eternal death.  These funnels, through which thousands and millions of souls of both men and women have been poured into an endless hell.

I have tried to furnish fair samples of the fruit of dancing, if I have failed, it is an error of the head and not of the heart.  It may be said by some that I have occupied forbidden ground in writing a book to be read by the public generally.  In reply I can only say that I have simply followed the varmint to his hiding place.  I have not used any stronger or more indecent language than was used by Jesus Christ, and God forbid that I should ever be guilty of the sacrilege of saying or even thinking that Jesus Christ was vulgar or wanting in refinement; that ever I should say of and concerning Him:  “I am holier than Thou.”  If the things I have herein mentioned have flowed from the ball room, if I have stated FACTS, and I know that I have, you should not get mad at me, but get mad at the facts.  If a man lends a helping hand in removing a dead dog from the yard, it is not the man that is indecent, it is the dead dog.  The man shows his decency and kindness by condescending to give aid in removing the stench from the premises, and no one but a contemptible snipe dude would stand off and turn up his nose and call the man indecent and vulgar.  If I am wrong, I rejoice to know that I am in the best company on earth, for the whole religious world, with a few