Weighed In Iron Balances

The M. E. church was crowded Sunday evening to hear Rev. Dr. Cobern preach on " Popular Amusements VVeighed in Iron Balances." He said that the iron balances of common sense should be used to test every amusement. Amusements should not interfere with the aim of hfe. He enlarged on the need of recreation. It was God's law written in the decalogue of nature, which was just as bind ing as the revealed law in the Scriptures. "I believe in dancing" were the words with which he staitled nis Methodist hearers. But he immediately qualified the statement by speaking of the dancing mentioned in the Bible, and saying he saw no objections to young men dancing together, if they wanted to He summed up by saying it was just as wrong to indiscriminately condemn all amusements as to indiscriminately approve of them.