WAREPA READINGS AND DANCING.

Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 146, 27 April 1877, Page 5

WAREPA READINGS AND DANCING.

TO THE EDITOR. SlB, —Warepa has (so it says itself) started to go ahead. Well, long; may it run. It has begun what it calls Readings, to raise money for neceassary purposes! The minister of the congregation explained (as reported in your last) what tlieir Readings were got up for, and, as the report reads, added that the young people should have one hour for a " dance" each evening after the readings would be read and the songs sung. Well, some of his people and some elsewhere think that on his part that was to go ahead rather fast. I was told that not a few spoke as if they felt a little scandalised by a clergyman intimating to the young people— kenned and unkenned to each other -that weekly or fortnightly they should have a rumble-tumble dance for an hour near the end of the day, on' which . they rose. But I amtold distinctly .that the said rev. gentleman did not intimate about the dance part of the programme, but that it was done by another after he had made his explanation, only your report made it read otherwise. So far good. I lam; glad that he who has *to preach the gospel ! of divine grace one day of the week, did not invite his people to au hour of late dancing on another night of the , same week. But it is queer, isn't it, that people who could be there with, perhaps, their white heads, and their grown lads and lasses, doing, or looking at,* the dances, and think naething wrangi would have a serious down on a minister were he to make 'the same.abore-naraed intimation? .It -seems that, -speak as we may, close in at the back of the heart there is a, doubt that in such dancings there is" somewhat" not conducive to the,moral good of young people — something that does not fit in withy the gospel. It is queer, isn't it am, &c, - '-:■ • '..*■* -' ,:■:;' ■'": '.A PASSER-8Y..,