This started on Sunday and continued every week night for t

This started on Sunday and continued every week night for the whole week. We had a reprieve on Saturday. When we entered the sanctuary on Sunday, the youth were seated in the front of the center section and our parents and other adults were on the sides and the rear. Little did I know what was about to happen.

Gilchrist ran through his sermon (a tremendous amount of recap of the entire weeks diatribes against dancing ) and then he asked all of the youth to stand. He asked for ‘every head bowed and every eye closed’ which just had us all peeking surreptitiously around.

‘All you who have come to understand the sinfulness of dancing and commit to stop forever, please sit down.’ All but about 10 of us sat down.

I liked dancing and was not convinced it was sinful.

He poured on the fire and brimstone and gave us another chance to sit down. At this point there were three or four of us left standing.

My peeking around revealed my Dad with ‘the look’ on his face.