Thou hast done nothing that could cause thy brother
to offend, but hast set a good and Godly example. Thou art letting thy
light so shine before men that they will see your good works and glorify
your Father which is in heaven. Thou art denying thyself and taking thy
cross daily and following me. I left my home in glory and lived and
suffered and died the death of the crucified that thou mightest take
thine ease, dance, drink, and be merry, and then, lay down thy cross and
take up thy _crown_ in glory to be with thy Savior and be like Him."

"The Son of man cometh at an hour when ye know not."

If he should come and find you at the dance, locked in the embrace of
another woman's husband, do you feel that he would consider you ready?

Do you not feel the slightest fear that He would say, "Depart from me, I
never knew you?"

Ah, my friends, I should fear it very much. I should fear that to my
account would be laid the sin of the harlot.

You say that you dance very properly. What have you to say for those
who, looking to you for a Christian example, see that you, a church
member, dance, and conclude that there can be no harm in it for them, so
they indulge and are ruined by it, and in after days are to be found
leading a life of shame in the brothel, all because of your example
which led them to take the first step on the downward road?

Do you believe that when you shall both stand before the bar of God for
just judgment that none of her sin will be laid to your charge?

Christian friends, a great responsibility rests upon us all, not only to
see that we "keep ourselves unspotted from the world," but that we do
all in our power to drive from our fair land this awful blot and curse.

TESTIMONIALS.

We have just finished reading Mr. Faulkner's book, called "FROM THE
BALL-ROOM TO HELL," and we are profoundly moved by it. We believe
every word of it is true, and that his characterization of the
demoralization and ruin wrought by the modern dance is none too strongly
put.

Surely nothing worse could have been found in Sodom than these Dancing
Academies, as a reason why the righteous God sent fire and brimstone and
destroyed them all. These exposures are as carefully and delicately
written as could be, and yet not fail to be fully understood.

We hope the book will find a wide reading and help to open many eyes
that are blind and startle many that are careless, and prove to be a
barbed wire fence around ma