4 Shaftesbury Terrace, Glasgow, Jan. 6, 1911.—Dear Mr. M—, I have received your letter, and owing to the good tone of it, I write you again. I am pleased that you have not, like some others, written me in an unchristian strain because I pled with them against dancing, but that you have put it down to the credit of consistency on my part, which it really is. In my younger days I was given to dancing, but when it pleased the Lord to awaken me to a sense of my sins, the sin of dancing looked very black and terrible to me. I purposed that I would warn my fellow-sinners against it all my lifetime, and I have hitherto done so. The only reference to in the New Testament does not endear it to the Lord’s people, as it was the cause of beheading John the Baptist. You don’t find any mention of these sinful follies except to forbid them to true Christians. Please read I. Peter iv. 1-7. You will see by this that it is our duty, as followers of Christ, to abstain from all the sinful folly of the unregenerate; to set a sober and godly example before them, and that we should rather reprove sin than give the least countenance to it. I do trust that upon further consideration you will discard it at your marriage, as I am sure you will admit that that will be more in keeping with the fear of God. I do not write this because I want to interfere with your decision in the least degree—that you should have your own minister to perform your marriage—but as your friend. With best respects, Believe me, Yours very truly, Neil Cameron.
P.S.—That our Lord went to a marriage does not encourage dancing or drinking as you know.