STRIFE.

HATRED.

LASCIVIOUSNESS.

EMULATION.

SEDITION.

LYING.

THEFT.

DRUNKENNESS.

SABBATH BREAKING.

GAMBLING.

EMBEZZLEMENT.

SUICIDE.

VULGARITY.

FORNICATION.

ADULTERY.

OBSCENITY.

EXTRAVAGANCE.

DIVORCE.

LUNACY.

WANTONNESS.

CRUELTY.

IDOLATRY.

PERJURY.

SEDUCTION.

PROSTITUTION.

ABORTION.

INFANTICIDE.

ASSASSINATION.

MURDER.

“AND SUCH LIKE.”

Every honest man is compelled to admit that these sins and crimes are the natural fruit of dancing; THAT THESE THINGS DO FLOW FROM THE DANCE.  I frankly admit that all these sins and crimes may and do come from other sources, but I challenge the world to point to any one thing that produces as many of these sins and crimes as the dance.  The drinking saloon is a prolific source of evil, but not one-half as much as the dance, for it must be borne in mind that men only attend the saloons, and that many of them are sent there from the ball room, and many, who never would have seen the inside of a drinking saloon but for the ball or dance. The ball is a feeder for drinking saloons, gambling saloons, and houses of ill-fame.

I have delivered this lecture on dancing in seven States, before about one hundred congregations, numbering from three hundred to ten thousand people.  I have called on all the men, old and young, saint and sinner, at nearly every place, to give an expression of opinion from what they had seen themselves, or what they had heard from those who had attended balls, hops, and such like places, as to the correctness or incorrectness of my charges against the dance, and out of I think not less than fifty thousand men, I have never found but SEVEN who stood up, thereby saying they did not believe that the sins and crimes I had mentioned had ever flowed from the ball room, while nearly all the balance stood up before their wives, daughters, sisters, and sweethearts, saying that they do believe, from what they know, and have seen and have heard from those who attend balls and hops, that these sins and crimes are the natural fruit of all kinds of dancing, where the sexes dance together.  A few, perhaps one in twenty, kept their seats, not expressing their opinion either way.  Of this class I think I may safely say that four-fifths failed to understand my proposition, or thought it not necessary to rise; but if they had stood up, they would have been with the affirmative.  While I am not an apologist for saloon keepers and gamblers, I want to record the fact right here that I have had more or less of them in my congregations, at nearly every place where I talked on this subject, and I have never known one, no, not one, to keep his seat when an expression of opinion was called for, and not one was found among the immortal seven.