I attack the modern dance as a reversion toward savagery. As a medical man, I flatly charge that modern dancing is fundamentally sinful and evil. I charge that dancing's charm is based entirely upon sex appeal."

I charge that dancing is the most advanced and most insidious maneuver preliminary to sex betrayal. It is nothing more, or less, than damnable diabolical animal-physical dissipation.

A young girl enjoys the dance because she is drugged by suggestive music and emotional overstimulation into a drunkenness, a frenzy that takes her back nearer to the beast.

Do brother and sister dance like that? Father and mother? Mother and son? Why is the long married husband soon wearied of dancing with his wife?

I tell you the basic spell of the dance is the spell of illicit physical contact.

A man who has learned what true love really is--something more than physical--does not willingly dance the modern dance with a woman he truly loves, nor watch her dance with others .

We doctors know there are mysterious currents, affinities that seem almost chemical. I am no prig, or prude (conceited and especially proper), and so I tell you frankly it is not safe to subject even the strongest men and women to the subtle temptations of the dance.

A trail of broken homes proves this.

The physical stimulation of the dance with its fingerings of the lowest and most primitive emotions, drugs the intellect and the spirit.

In view of the above strong statement from a worldly man, a doctor and nerve specialist, we marvel that some Christians can still contend that dancing is all right. From a moral standpoint they should be against the dance. From the Christian viewpoint they should shun and hate it as from the very pit of hell. "Abstain from all appearance of evil." "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you" (11 Cor. 6:17).

Though the foregoing two statements may seem "hard," and certain people's indignation may rise to fever heat, because someone has dared attack their "pet sins," we of the Bible Friend feel that it is a mild statement of the facts. Common decency prevents speaking too plainly. As a former dancing instructor described it: "Common words fail to portray its devilishness, subtlety, wickedness, immorality and exceeding sinfulness." Our parting thought is this, friends: Don't play with fire (from hell) when you know beforehand you will get burned!"