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 Dear
Sir:
“My
dad reads your paper; that’s how I got the address. I’ve
been talking to him about dancing. He won’t let me, because of
what it will lead to, and all the preachers he has talked with
on the subject say “No,” it isn’t good.
But
my side: That’s just about all the things that teenagers do
beside smoking and drinking. I can see where these aren’t good
and I would never dream of doing them, but “what’s wrong
with dancing?” It’s just something to do for pleasure.
I
have already promised to keep my dancing sensible. Other kids
(two) at my church (Church of Christ) can. Do you, and the ones
you can talk with about this subject. think I should miss out on
the fun? Please answer in a letter.” _________ N .Y.
Dear
Miss_________________
I
certainly do not want you to miss the fun — and I am aware
that “what it leads to” makes very poor argument indeed to
early teens. But you seem to be very intelligent — try
reasoning on your own statements.
By
what standard do you reject the smoking and drinking? It
is done for pleasure; and many contend it can be “kept
sensible.” Other kids do them, and should you miss out on the
fun? Some “other kids” break store windows and bait the
police “just for kicks.” But you see the END of these things
— the alcoholic, death by cancer, etc. These “ends” are
physical. and more readily seen than the break down in morals,
and of character. Apparently your dad, and those
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with whom he
has counseled, see some “ends” of dancing that are not yet
clear to you. And they know that ones concept of “sensible”
dancing — like that of smoking and drinking — usually change
for the worse as we grow older.
You
will not long remain a young teen, dancing at school or in
supervised parties. In a few short years you will dance at
Clubs. Night-Spots, where drinking, smoking and sensuous dancing
will be pressured upon you. (Associates there will ask why you
should “miss the fun” of things you now know to be wrong,
and reject.
What
you reject now, because their end — the physical break-down
are not nearly so damaging as those things that attack ones
morals, a destroy character. and cause the loss of ones immortal
soul.
It
is difficult, if not impossible for younger and less experienced
boys and girls to see this point. That is why Christian parents
have to set and rule in such matters, for the children. (Pity
those whose parents are too weak to accept and meet the
responsibility.)
But I believe you can understand that the “wrong” dancing is
NOT the gay association, music and rhythm you might enjoy now.
It is the sensuality, immodesty, and lasciviousness (study these
words an unabridged dictionary) of the full grown vice of which
we warn. Already you may sense such association being made by
older and more bold girls boys of your public school classes. I’M
RESTING MY CASE ON YOUR MATURITY AND YOUR LOVE FOR JESUS CHRIST.
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