“SUBTLE EVILS”
WARNING AGAINST SOME PUBLIC DANCES MOTION BY THE METHODIST CONFERENCE (press association telegram.) WELLINGTON. February 24. “That our people be warned of the subtle evils associated with many pub-
lie dances, and that the matter of indulgence in dancing be laid on the enlightened individual was a motion carried by the conference of the Methodist Churcn of New Zealand to-day. After an hour and a quarter’s discussion in committee, it was resolved also that the conference continue in its refusal to allow dancing on church property, or elsewhere, under Methodist auspices. A manifesto on the Church’s attitude toward dancing, drawn up by a committee, was approved. The manifesto states that in issuing it “The conference is sensible of its responsibility to exercise oversight, not of constraint, but of reason and example: the conference realises that for a large section of the Methodist people dancing is an urgent problem, and it feels that in view of the publicity given to the discussions on dancing, the position of the Church should be clearly stated.”
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22336, 25 February 1938, Page 5
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