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THE K I N G ’S BUS I NES S
These parents were Christians and had a holy horror (as well they might have) of the dance habit. The matter was taken to the courts for adjudication, and the judge decided that parents could not create religious beliefs of their own 'and hold the school authorities to such beliefs. This decision means that the school authorities have the power to com pel the children to take the first step in a habit that has been the means of filling the houses of ill fame with fallen women, for statistics show that more than eighty per cent of the harlots of this country found their way to ruin through the dance habit. We have conducted hundreds of men’s meetings and have never yet found a man who would stand up in the presence of his fellow men and profess to have engaged in a round dance with a woman and maintain pure thoughts. The educators tell us that the dance is designed to make the children graceful, but who would want their children to glide gracefully over the polished floor of a dance hall to a life of disgrace and an eternity in hell? I t is not a question of religious beliefs. It is a question of morals, and every honest father and mother possesses the right, to protest against school laws which would compel them to submit to a program for their children which might prove' to be the prelude to a life of prostitution. Our public schools—the glory of our nation—are apt to become our shame unless the people rise in protest against the attitude of the educators towards the Bible and morality. 'Those of us who prize the honor of our children may be compelled to resort to the parish school system, where our little ones may receive an education which shall be sweetened with the wisdom of God’s holy Word. —T. C. H.
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