These are the contests in which it becomes us christians to be concerned, and where we ought to endeavour to receive the prize.
CHAP.

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SECT.

I.
_Dancing forbidden--Greeks and Romans differed on this subject--motive on which the Greeks encouraged dancing--motive on which the moderns encouraged it--way in which the Quakers view it--the arguments which they use against it._ As the Quakers have thought it right to prohibit music, and stage-entertainments, to the society, so they have thought it proper to prohibit dancing, none of their children being allowed any instruction in the latter art.
It is remarkable that two of the most civilized nations, as well as two of the wisest men of antiquity, should have differed in their opinions with respect to dancing.

The Greeks considered it as a wise and an honourable employment; and most of the nations therefore under that appellation inserted it into their system of education.