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Title: There is No Harm in Dancing

Author: W. E. Penn

Release Date: November 27, 2004 [eBook #14183]

Language: English

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THERE IS NO HARM IN DANCING

by

W. E. PENN

With an Introduction by Rev. J.H. STRIBLING, D.D.

St. Louis, Mo.
Lewis E. Kline, Publisher and Bookseller.

1884

"Buy the TRUTH and sell it not; also WISDOM and INSTRUCTION and
UNDERSTANDING."--PROV. 23-23.

"There is a way that SEEMETH right unto a man, but the end thereof are
the ways of DEATH."--PROV. 14-25

This little book is respectfully and kindly dedicated to all Husbands,
Fathers and Brothers, who love their Wives, Daughters and Sisters, by

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

During the past seven years I have delivered the substance of the
foregoing Lecture on Dancing, as a part of my work as an Evangelist,
before not less than one hundred thousand people. I have been requested
by hundreds of FATHERS and mothers, young men and girls, HUSBANDS and
BROTHERS, and pastors of churches to publish the Lecture in the form of
a book, that its influence may be extended to fields I shall never
visit. It is in compliance with these requests that the little book is
written, with the hope that at least some good may result in begetting
and fostering a better state of morals in our day and generation, and in
checking the terrible increase of crime which is rolling over the earth
like a mighty wave of the ocean. If I shall ever hear that this little
book has had some humble part in stopping one poor soul from taking one
more step down the "BROAD ROAD," _or that it has done any good in the
world_, I shall feel well paid for all the time and trouble it has cost
me in getting it into