“When God wants to throw a world out into space he is much concerned about it. The first mile that world takes settles its course for eternity. When God throws a child out into the world he is mighty anxious that it gets a right start. The Catholics are right when they say: ‘Give us the children until they are ten years old, and we don’t care who has them after that.’ The Catholics are not losing any sleep about losing men and women from their church membership. It is the only church that has ever shown us the only sensible way to reach the masses—that is, by getting hold of the children. That’s the only way on God’s earth you will ever solve the problem of reaching the masses. You get the boys and girls started right and the devil will hang crepe on his door, bank his fires, and hell will be “for rent.” “There is power in a mother’s smile. See the boy, how he will outdo himself if he knows his mother is watching him, and it makes the hard places easy and the dark places light. A long face and a gloomy look are about the last things you ought to give to your children if you want to inspire and cheer them.” DANCING WORST OF AMUSEMENTS. The dance is the hotbed of iniquity, and I denounce it as the rottenest, most hellish, vice-producing institution that ever wriggled from the depths of perdition. The dance is simply a hugging match set to music. Dancing is not an innocent amusement. It has caused the downfall of more girls than anything else. Three-fourths of the fallen women in big cities, fell because of the dance. You’d just as soon husk corn by moonlight as to dance with your own wife. It’s the other fellow’s wife, some other fellow’s sister that you want to dance with. A man will wallow and get so low he’ll have to climb a hill to get into hell, then make a bluff at reforming and society takes him in. Then at the dance he’ll breathe promises into the ears of some innocent young girl, gain her confidence and then ruin her. You say you need exercise and that’s why you dance. All right, then, let women dance with women, and men with men. The dance brings vice and virtue into such close contact that virtue loses. Any church that encourages dancing is too low down to deserve the name of church. If there are variations of hell, the dancer will crack brimstone in the hottest spot. If there was nothing but card players and dancers in the church, how it would stink and rot! DECLARES BALLROOM PERMITS LIBERTIES. You grant men liberties on the ball room floor that if any man attempted in your home and your husband found you at it, he would have no trouble in securing a divorce, and if he shot the man, no jury in the world would convict him for it. If I found any man hugging Mrs. Sunday as a man does in a dance, I’d clear for action like a battleship, and give him HIS. Where do you find your most accomplished dancers? In the brothels.