“SUBTLE EVILS”
MANY PUBLIC DANCES ATTITUDE OF METHODIST CHURCH (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Feb. 24. “That our people be warned of the subtle evils associated with many public dances and that the matter of indulgence in dancing 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-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 the Methodist auspices. A manifesto on the Church’s attitude to dancing drawn up by the 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 feels that, in view of the publicity given the discussions on dancing, the position of the church should be clearly stated.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23435, 25 February 1938, Page 7
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