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 precisely the sort the apostle Paul had in mind when, two thousand years ago, he preached: "He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord. But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife."

Ephraim Herrick considered this already proved in regard to Alice, who had taught his son to dance in the first year David was away from home, and with that wedge of sensuality had widened the breach between father and son till now the world and the flesh were claiming him; he was selling his soul to borrow money to enter the race for riches, and denying his duty to God.

"Dances! He's still throwing up dances to me!" Dave ejaculated, in his review with himself of his father's bigoted creed. It made no difference to his father that almost all the university danced in these days—and many professors as well as the girl and men students; nor did it alter his father's view that the university, Methodist as it was, gave over its gymnasium for dances where girls went decolleté and boys put their arms about them and danced with them. Dancing now was something David could do without qualms of the right or wrong of it; but three years ago, that was not so. Suppose he had clung to the narrow interdict on dancing which had been drilled into him during his youth; what sort of a man would he be now? And was it not the clutch of other such proscriptions and senseless dreads which controlled him yet?

He squared about to Willard impatiently. "Alice