DANCING: ANCIENT AND MODERN, by Rev. Herbert Lockyer, minister of Hawick Baptist Church. Hawick: James Edgar, High Street. Price 9d, post free.
This is a timely pamphlet. It deals with the modern craze for dancing in a satisfactory and convincing way. Mr Lockyer takes up first of all the kind of dancing so often referred to in Scripture, and has no difficulty in showing that it has no resemblance whatsoever to modern dancing with all its worldliness, frivolity, and other attendant evils. He quotes from the secular press to show how real and how dangerous these evils are. It is gratifying to notice that he utters a protest against teaching dancing to children in our public schools. This is an evil that is growing, and while it is introduced under the plea of physical exercises, it is training the mind of the young for indulgence in a questionable amusement. We heartily recommend this pamphlet and wish it a wide circulation. It deals faithfully with that modern device of the devil—the church dance—and may be made useful in opening the eyes of many who, as yet, see no evil in dancing.