Dancing Has its Subtle Evils
SAYS METHODIST CONFERENCE Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. “That our people be warned of the subtle evils associated with many public dances and that the matter of indulgence in lancing be laid on the enlightened individual conscience,” was a motion carried by the conference of the Methodist Church of New Zealand to-day, after an hour and a-quarters’ 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 • to dancing drawn up by a committee was approved. The manifesto states that in issuing it “the conference is sensible of its resiionsibility 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 feel that in view of the publicity given discussions on dancing, tho position of the Church should be clearly stated."
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 47, 25 February 1938, Page 7
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