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Methodism's Blue Laws
Smythe Jr., J. Henry | August 10, 1921 issue

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On the statute books of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1872 has been a prohibition to members, under penalty of expulsion, of dancing, theater- or circus-going, card-playing, and so forth. Owing to the protests of dancing teachers' societies and of theatrical organizations which deny that dancing and theater-going are "obviously of misleading or questionable moral tendency," these amusement blue laws have recently been much in the national lime-light. Many leading Methodist annual conferences last year urged repeal of these legislative blunders, including the New York, New York East, New Jersey, Newark, New England, New England Southern, the Central Pennsylvania, and the Chicago Preachers' Meeting.

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SUNDAY legislation; LABOR laws & legislation; METHODISM; METHODIST Episcopal Church; DANCE teachers; METHODISTS
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