Í PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSELE!». THURSDAY,
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27 We tu'e >> “ glhi ify Gdd in opr Pead^ vet rising up to.U)U0»go Sthe Clive the sects byiys rightiand Left
PiA;As.\!tT H ill , July 2-?Jb75.
ropes, Talk jMidly oji the ’'first pHncipleic.’
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fellows, devoid of shame, or fiie irre- ■ bodies and spirits which are ids. ’ Has ' ship ; <Raid men pulling the
21ro. Sttiulei}:
Ouf congregation seems to be more iigious families described by Job, | any Christian ever .been known to dead men st •t ring, dead men spread­ Ysm needn’t say anything about
Leavo that for the
J ing ’ the sails. 1 thought.-what a et'liristian
■ prosperous than at the 'timei of our which, produced inereas«-<l impiety and ' glorify ’God by dancing .’
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- duties.
a
preacher
to
t^lk
’
.about
when you are’
liut
do
you
2b.
Among
the
works
of
the
flesh
;
strange
idea
that
was.
mdetl
in
destruction
;
and
lifHerodias,
" last report.
not
present.
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■e
that
time.
named
by
the
aj*>stle
Paul:
Gal.
V
IB
-
know
1
have
lived
to
-•
which
terminated
in
the
rash
\ow
of
For the U^jt three weeks the aver-
Tbe-.Biblp says: “Bear ye one
■ age attendance in the Sunday sch'ool Herddiaiiil the imn'der of John >tlie and-20, is reveling.® Reveling is noisy I have s en'it <l»>ne. I have gone into
undther
’s burdens;” so cohstrue that
;
churches,
and
I
have
seen
a
dead
man
mirth
,
and
has
be
n
so.
regarded
by
has lieeii ninety-eiglit and, as a Baptist.
as
.to
me
an b.-ar ye ono another’s
in
the
pulpit,
and
:•
dead
man
as
a
15. Who came to Herods’ blood stained l i the best authority, l»oth; prose writers.
natural leBqlt, our morning meetings
riches
and
prosperity.
' am! poets, in all age*. -Rvrün say* : ■ i iLgieon, hliil a dead-man-holding the
__ ~ lb rone.
'■ have been* wq U attended.
,
To
seek
forbidden
joys
’
; plate at the door, and dead men sit- ' ‘ If you will carefully' follow the­
| “ There was a sound of revelry by night
We were favored, on last Sunday,
Who reveled there inarimes unknown.
ad vice given in tie.-; short .sertnon.
with two of Bro. Burnett s good dis,-- Bedecked with' gaudy toys? A Dancer. > And Belgium’» capital had gathered jhen t ting i<> hear. Yon ray, “ Stratfty
her beauty and her chivalry,
.But Lhavtt. 1 have gone into societies, then where- tlie po >r, :triliing beggar
courses. He fiad been absent for six
i Anti bright the lamps shone d're fair women
Who caipe in Baste to kibgly court .’
and I have s< -n it aH going on so- ■ Lazarus P ent you shall never go, but
weeks, on what- lie was pleased to
and brave men. ,
To do a monster deed, •
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jseguhwly.
These d -a<l^ men, you there shall ho ministered -unto yoa an
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a
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Tall, a vacation. We learn that his To lift the Rjman ax iu sport
i f-v
I
know,
never
outsto]» the lxuinds of abunjant entrance' into .the ■ eternal .
Oq' with the danoe ! let joy be nneontined.”
•time has Been •well improved during- And see tlie Bajitist bleed ? A Dancer.
i
ptiidence
—
not
they ; they have not ah>de prepared for those who, clad, in
his absence, but he returns to ujj’look­ Who bore away the good man’s bead,
Paul lgis said thattliey who do'such
life
enough
U>.du
that.’ They always purpIw*an<F fill'- linen,fare sumptuously
ing much worn ; yet he seemeh to for-
Like viands—on a plate.
things eamiot.inherit tlie kingilotn of
pull
the
rope
rii
’
dcrly
: As it was in every day- and enjoy tlie good things
get the’wbakness of his frame while Exalting that a saint was dead
God,'_ The church may refnin them
To
glut
her
mothers
bate
?
A
Dancer.
.
~
the
beginning,
is
now.
and ever shall of «M’-h.—ri.sp'o.ii yicxtu iKjct:.
i
in the sacred desk.
‘ for policy D .
l(i. Tha preparatioy for the dance
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Brethren aifcl Sisters, who are
2ii5 Dancing is ■’tdeflatry^ Und ah-U*1' "’vriiLwithojit d. Anqgi.’^Ahd
An Indian Tradition.
readers of the M essenger , let us not is an outvrerd adorning,’not of gtxxl i<lol to which dancing Christians 'P I the dead man in t pulpit, is lie not ?
forget to aid our monsters with our works, but/of.costly apparel ; all this i are closely bound, or_they, would not I most regular and precise ' He v?ys-
Among the.Seulinole Indians there
prayers and our .means, ever -remem­ display isjiot -of'a meek and quiet ! indulge in it. Read McKnighfs trans- tematically draws his handkerchief
is
a
singular tradition regarding the ■
bering that the laborer is worthy of spirit, but of pride‘and tumultuous tion, 1 «Cor. x. 7. '“Neither l>e ve from his pocket and uses it at the
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white
man's origin anti superiority. ’
vanity.
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' idolaters as were some of them ; as it region- j leriod, in the middle of the
1ms hire.
They
say
that-when the Great Spirit’ „
* have seen the minister
17. No (liristian can attend such is- Written." “ The people sat down to
wWith the prayer that we may all
made
the
earth, lie also made three
consider well our obligations to God, places without receiving spots from cat and drink*and rdse up to <lance." preaching, without a particle of life, a
aniLso labor in this-world, as to find the world. And tire ApoBtle James In King James the word " play ” ’oc­ sermon which is only fresh in the men', all of whom were of fair-complex­
our names written in the Lamb’s says, “ Keep yourself uns'jrotted from curs, but if you will turn to Exdus sense in which fish* is fresh when—it ion ; and after making them he led
the world."—-v ------- - -——-——— xxxii. you will“ find that it wai“a ha*, been pocked itvicr; I iravo soon
~~ ~ iwok ofirifi1 atflast ri the prayer of
18. The scripture gives us all things “dance.”! The apostl^ says nothing people sit, ,-tnd they have listened as and hade them ■ leap therein. One
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Yours ip Christ,
that pertain to life and godliness. If about the (Solden Calf, but sp. aks pf if they had lieen a group of statues— immediately Obeyed, and came out of
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A.-H. B eckwi i n.
i the chiseled marble would have been the water purer than before he. bathed ;
dancing pertains to life and godliness, dancing and calls it idolatiy.
the second didiiot foap until the wa­
DANCING.
dbrpething must lie given that author­
30. J lancing is contrary to the spirit Im«much affected by the-oo+imm -as.
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ter became slightly muddy, and when
izes it Where is it ?
and gcuius-of Christianity, and those tliey. Do you think that God will
THI11TT THREE REASONS .WHY CHRIS­
he
bathed he carné np copper Colored ;
lit. ** Whatsoever ye do in word ’or who engage in it should remember ever bless ii churcli like that?' .tie
TIANS SHOULD NOT ENGAGE IN IT..
tlie
third <lid not leak until tlie water
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deed,’do all in the name of the Lord “ That whatsocrer a man sowgth that
lieeatue
black with, mud, ami came out
1. It leads to expense in dress, to Jesus giving thanks unto God and the .shall he also rffijuofi.Ju/ tLat spwejh
■ late hours, to the neglect hf moral and Father'by TrirAv VoTTHriT- ’Hi is de-" to his flesh shall pf tly^esh' reap cor­ Wv wáilt living ministers and'a living I wTt n ¡15. ow i i 'coloj~ TTien thta‘ilria't-
Spirit laid before them three packages
intellectual culture, and to various mauds the glory of God as the object, ruption,
ruption. bitt
but he tbaCbrnweth
that S^v
to the hearers, and until we have-sueli. men
of
bark, and baric* them chooqe, and
.who
have
got
the-
very
fire
”
»f'life
as
well
as
the
authority
of
Christ,
for
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,-itf«irit .'.vKnIL
shall pf tin -pirit'reaj. ìiGa
Iirc oi’mr-
. r
evil practices.
<.tn vf-pity Iri his mi-i^f'.otie <>f eefor.
r
wh
a
t,
àiwfa
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h™
d
ancing
do-
thia
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’2. rD¡fljellíg, ffleiro or less, Tails in
20. Those who
-dancing dq
wh<> practice
pi-acticeslaueing
It i^a forwfiw rim wmkk '■ If.! tongues of life, and souls of lift-, we he gave the black man his first choice.
contactfwith promiscuous -company—
think ot appcaliiig to hcrtpiim» for nnv ñíah’ltívé'the world,, the Hove of shall ’never see the kingdom of heaveuT He look hold <>f i>ach of the pnekagefi."
and impure atmosphere. “Tivii conta
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ir.i
*ii dance
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aiul, having/elt them, chose the heavi­
authority:
If
they will
there
the Fdtlier m'nót’ln hirn.”' 1. Jno. ii. taken by storm. "For-the kingdom
munications corrupt good manners. ’
of heaven suffereth violence, and the i est; tlie copper-colored one then chose
3. It mars social intercourse and un­ fore in the absence of authority either 15.
the second heaviest, leaving the white
fits the mind
for real, useful, substan- direct or indirect, the sooner they arc
32. A j'ood brother, perhajis a violent take it by force.'’—t'/uis' oe
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Wwlfl.
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i
man
to choose the lightest. When
given over to the. world tlig sooner préach'ér, sajtt the’scripftirc df>es not
tial enjoyment.
the; packages were opened, the first
4. ’ Dancing unfits the mind for se­ will the church, be relieved of their prohibit dancing, ft’ sitys, “ Thou
was
found to conta.iik;spadt$, hoes, and
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Sermon.
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pernicious,
example
pnd
they.cowse
to
slialt n<’it danfi-” jiist aS inudi a- i'
rious reflection and prayer..
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all tlm.implrments of lalair; the second
practice
deceptio
n
on
the,world.
-
'sa^s ATTmu'flwilt
fifat* at enols,’’
’X’The inosi wise. cdnsiderafy judi-
to sort enrrci! vr.vi.
enwrapped.hunting.,tjshihg and war­
2L Christians are conquauded to “■Thou sha'lt ndt^run 1 mttos’’
ciotis and devotedly pious, in all. ag??,
. ax j ; H. atabk
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like apparatus; 71ie, third gavi; the'
”
let
their
light
shine,-that
ofliers
see
­
talialt not
at*15lBlhfri<' *
have looked upon 'dancing as amuse
white
mail pens, ink iuid paper;— the
ing-
their
good
works
may
glorify
our
* 31 Fmallvtata.d'w
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( 'tim'd if; Tv
ment not only as useless, but’ of deckl­
engine^
of the mind- the ¡.¿iral, men­
ed evij temlen'cy. ’ “ ’Be not conformed Father in IleapeJi. Has thd dancing fessorsAfy,lriisttahity'46' flftt’cfMsId
tal
improvement*-
thq SMcrnl link -of
•of ChristiansAjver converted a soul to "tfte>,*‘baff-rffoiA ” a’sniWlTlc' plitFS’"'foi
to this world.”
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bumanity-rrtiic
foundation
of the
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6. Those who dhlight in die ball Christ? Rather has their-light been GKristihtf
white
rniui's
»iqxsriprity,
"i; ”
Jt'refi; DLitirtiri
room or dancing parties'are generally ‘ .turned to «larkupsts amidin church basi
ever
succeeded
where
it
has
-not
•
difri
fond of thejyine cup, novel reallinj?,
:ttn
<’fh ’
fir
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cifiluwd against it.
and the card table.
1A the first plfUT. b ■ Sure tfthVyqiir ' T he B est T;<1 e .—A veny <lmu* and
2^1, The P>ible. contains a revcJatioM—-,
ijfeIes«’Cht»cW.-
t
7. Dancing‘is a favorite ftmuseincnt
■ is . i) tile eblireh !<<'.; ; , .p- 1 i-nly dangHtir lay »lying. She hail
pf the wrath pf God against^all ungod­
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** I '-1 A ■ At "'Afft
of the' savage ' ridtionsl'and Usually*
‘gers, looking over the I ook, riirn <ah •been a very'thoughtful, praying child,
Aioank-mporaiy begins an ft tinlo.
forms a very important part in the' liness and unrightcousncHsf gnd the
seh it. 'Try' to Lave it written 'in ' having ’firolessc»! ndigiun *at twelve*
apostle
says,
“
they
who
do
these
things
bn
this tojiii- with tfo- ikxhunriyn
worship of heathbn Gods. '
htrge Iett*r«-as it-wfl' -bc-'-'tO -tfiggn-i
' ymacsxjlAGs^an4’ Iiu«i*-<lwoteil life. •-
.->n
Now she wuonly waiting's few hours
, 8. Social’hotfte dances, as advocated, shall hpl inhvrinTic Timgdopi of (hal ” “ That there a«H trx»< many lifeless part h? ymr.- profot.jFa.
—Dancers do all these things.
« ministers, and,- as -a natural emsu-
1 — * to go homo.
fn the next pla^ go to mteting
Severe paui at times al­
by some chTístians áre but the step­
23. True gentility and ctiqutte are ■qu^nce, too many lifeless »ch urehis in
most
toAk
away
the pow« of thought'.
ping stone-to file public ball-risen' and
oiicc th q while ; once a month if ebn-
theatre -‘the top round of the ladder found in the church and not in the our midst, aeuds no argUmestt.This veirient. "Be sure to go when a big BctU’ee^jthesa severe attacks of> stiff--
l<all-room. The most accomplished is a jilain and-p.ijttwl cJiimge against,
that leads down to the pit. “ A pru-
pfeAcher is to !>e there, ahd strive to' . .ng. she looked back on her child<
- dent man forseeth- the evil, but the lady amhgi ntleman in the world are the ministry? and. if- true, should lx*, as conspicuous licfore- hint as
those who have been educated in the create- no little alarm ami‘agitation.
«imple pass"on and are punished.
possibie. But wheii they make up a i the blessed future, with cqval clcar^v
Church of ( ’hrist. Their •e manners
A
lifeless
church
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What
a
contra
­
9. Dancing-masters ami dancing­
contribution for him. <l<>u’t give anv- uesH and joy, as she said :. “ There's a
spring from-a pure heart.
diction in idea 1 A name to live, vet
mistresses are generally of low stand­
thing unless you have a ton ctnt piece ! delightful clearness now." A* I sat
.24. If dancing is not as bad an evil
ing in Mociefy,- not even welcome at as other Christians do, tlien it is bad. ! d. ad cohiiniasiomd to givg life to, the so iip.itilatod you can’t pass it anv- by her bed, we talke»! as her strength
the homes of their qjupils as guests. and for the same reason, stealing may ’ world, yet without its poWet in itstdf. where disc.
would permit. Among- the many'
I it is a waste, a desolation not pleasant
Tliey are classed as theatricals ot^oose, be in harmony with principles of
tjiings
never to be forgotten,.ehe sai3:
If you go to bear your home preach-1
I to contemplate, and an oifiAise to th&
habits, whose morals will not Lear
“
Father,
you know I professed relig- "
er,'don't make fun of him until you :
(Christianity, because it isTiot -as bad
scrutiny, and whose language is often as murder.' Where did Christ or the ■ Lord ot the rineyard. How prayer- get out of the house, ltwouldn’t !o<4; ion very young some thought too
) less, how inactive, how indifferent,
very contaminating and corrupting. •
well. Il you have aught against a young' - but, oh liow I wish. I cotdd
apostles license its to do bad.
' how <le«tit»rtc of ls,nevnlence,.hnw un-
10. The freedom between the sexes
25. Dancing causes brethren of
liretht r 'or si -t I, tril evqey one else i tell everybody what a comfort it is to
in certain kinds of daticihg is exceed­ strong, aw well as weak consciences, to ) copcmied ahnuf the safety and pivis- exceji.t them,
mo noic to think of it.” Reaching out
ingly immodest, as admitted by those offend, hence it ofight not to lx? indul-. I {icrity < if Zion It is not enough that
If the bretliren want you to help her hand-—fingers already' coldy-and
who engage in it, ami often results in ged in. “ But when ye'sin so against I a chureb <Hre foi‘ itself, or its minister pay the preacher, quote ’our text to grasping mine, she said.with great
the most serious and pernicious conse­ the brethren, and wound their weak having a •place and e living care for them. “Cursed is he that won’t take earnestness : “ Father yitii are at work
1 himself. The extension and building
quences.
.
conscience ye sih against Christ. 1,
care of No. one, ’ Let the preach«*. •for the young. D»i all you caui for
Upbif (^rxl’s'kiheritanco, the conver­
IT .-'Dancing is a most useless art.
Cor. viii. 12. . Theri Said he unto thuJ
work like other ¡»eople and preach tew. them while they are young. It is Hu
tir>ie~ t/u- hes< fimt. Oh, I set' it.
12. The evils'flowing, from dancing, disciples. 'It is impossible hut that sion .of the world; fthoflld be ever I e-
Jf any of the brethren want you to '
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and from "inspiring children with the Offences will come ; l'ut woe untAliim (*>!■<■ it. and rnii into activity <>.vciw I.subscribe for a church paper, tel! them now ns I never did befom It is the
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dancing mania, may lie summed up’ iri through whom tliey come! It wpjg dqiacity tt> tip goml and win souls tn j you arc t-> |wor. ’’/ff course you must best time -rwhile tl«jv are young—the
I Christ Its lif giving |H.wer should
, pride, folly, irreligión, - and excessive i better for him <thaf n_nnir stófft* Were
; have the .Vc/c 3b<Z.-
and it is yc.ungei- the Iw-tter. Do -tall you can
be ti-lt in th** community* and .fvp |n
lote .of pleasure, *nd finally jn a loas hanged about Lis n«k, ¡iitrf he'
an you can-thke; iiplesá'ít b a fash­ for them while they are «vi-y y-oung.”
rib
w< rk of AJhristhniity in ion paper, if you ¿o jo prayer meet­ - Sf'r.‘
- of the soul.
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13. Dancing as fmw jiracticed by offend one of thdse litth wiH" 1 Lutei which’ iff ffli ffti pSff4 ripe! fcrtrfi Tlie ing, don’t have anything to say. And
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■ •' 1 pwpei«, f¥d*i whiclr we qwitM the first
- the sexles as art afmri eneht, is unrerip- ;<vn.
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ifth'Ag)ili,‘r.s'ypprove you ‘fin- derelic­
AL thd VaSsiif < ’oirtmencciiicitt, Miss
tural, and tbos"- who introduce it nitoj i 2Ò. Dancing is
i • n<it
nót a Malflifttl
M-d filiti I qXer-
e.xer- •’remnik» <yifitarns-an extinrt frr^hi thM tion ,nf duty, telT them 'you are as good f htlh rt.son-, in her. dqfense of a Women
the CTinrCh are “'dideásiál members,” j ewe M-HtirdisiMiw anvi-ínanv deaths Jiving wihker in a "living rluhvh in- as konii one talse. , That will sctíle who cntéh thè jfrófesA&i ' of medicine,
<**■«*} |4,ndnt<rMr.
Ii. Spurguon, which Is
and should l>e healed of amputated, 1 follow the rXcitnurnnt -h»’«f< <k A-ooms
íhcfin. ‘ Oppose, tire fíFfnday school, said: u^taitafié!Ì pfove t-.i'niftliAteven
slim
ply
sht
to'the
mark
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.^pd th^s fave tli- "• sly.
— thin dlothing^—Isi^gbontii/u**! e.;¿r-
nnasipnnry woric, etc. Tliey .rnighl if they do.urrf it’, all Wolii?h‘ Ain not
< Wvridgw’s
14. No instanée'of dancing is foun<f cisc - drintai--iintihM-fir ’ edting and I Have" yrtu
riist
something, but it wilt not ba Lest marry, as th?,’
hugely hi hxojWH
Al aril.- rtf' 1, tiare BRy-jrhti*
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upon r.’cord, in the Bible,< in which«) ' »rexnal cxciteibriit. Ko phyMmstti>
physb-mfe* «iy
say
to pili vour opposition on that ground of the male |x>|Hilitlon,"nn<l'ev| ‘h tliityi ’
lviVf
tlWjight
of
the
«trangeat
lyrvp j -..
Uaaggbt qt
jt oua
uiw
atrangesk
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the" two sekes wetb e 'ngág«¿J in the öx^ Wluwc iiMW’lrpel'♦mnen nt»- foft Irei; ium^iyatúu^ev.r . _ mlt¡ fi,gotl
Wr, re- If yotí stthscribe anything to pay* Una t|le growing scgrclfy- óf ’.tat&ktlfle i fin
ereixe eithef as an act 'of fyprshij' <W to Wt in ajKsfivtance with the true beet
riteiyjy Qmt part1 where the pii! jr-caclyer und see that you will fctil it, renders it still mòre hftaàrdoflkf if fidt.
, Aniftséincnt; Ncilhfr is tliere any in-11 •principlJi'of
■princijUJ^ of’ '4?hristianivj''
-Christianity' thf-y
tht-jr Rave*
K av ’ c mariner representa the ^orpsqs of all dó not pay It. Let it gó; lié won’t impossible, r. sentiment whkj) elicit« d
«tairve on record of social dancing for ! healthy’Rxliv's anti cíéa’r ’ corisciencés. the’dí'íd tnCn rising up-all o? them I sue you, but other creditors might.
considerable applause. ’ —
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