Category: Religion/Spirituality
City full of Boys and Girls, playing--Play not wrong--Let the Children, the Youth, the Mature, and even the Aged have their times of Rest and Recreation--Laughter as pious as Tears--How shall we Play?--The World wants to Play with the Church, and lead us in their Path--Total S...
City full of Boys and Girls, playing--Play not wrong--Let the Children, the Youth, the Mature, and even the Aged have their times of Rest and Recreation--Laughter as pious as Te...
2. CHAPTER II.What is the Aim of Recreation?--RULES THAT GOVERN: 1. Our Recreations must not be Immoral; 2. Not Damaging to Christian Reputation; 3. Must not Interfere with Our Duty; 4. Must...
3. CHAPTER III.Said to be a Good Place to Learn History, etc.--Some Plays "as Good as Sermons"--Doubts--Theater always a Haunt of Evil--Must be so or Fail--The Theater that tried to be "Respec...
4. CHAPTER IV.Horse a Noble Beast, no doubt--Races prohibited by Civil Law--Revived under new name--Agricultural Fair, and what may be seen thereat--Ludicrous side of things--Twenty gawky Boy...
5. CHAPTER V.The Ancient and Honorable Way--Latter-day Absurdities--"Great National Game"--Clubs; how formed--Science--Professional Players and their Salaries--Expenses--The Exotics challeng...
6. CHAPTER VI."Dances not all alike"--Bad and Worse--"The German"--Mere motion not wrong--The Old Gentleman and his Exercises--Imaginary Scene in "Happy Family"--REASONS AGAINST DANCING: 1. L...
7. CHAPTER VII.Cards an Old Game--Origin, Asiatic--History--Horne Tooke and George III--Author confesses his Want of Knowledge--Cards the Gambler's Tools--Game adds nothing to Mind or Heart--D...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Definition of a Novel--A Vice of the Age--FOUR MAXIMS: 1. No Fiction if Little Leisure; 2. Only the Best; 3. Fiction to be but Small Part; 4. If any Harm results, Stop at Once--...
9. CHAPTER IX.No List of Recreations Furnished, and Why--One Suggestion, nevertheless--The Indolent have No Claim--The Busy need Recreation--The Sedentary need Air and Sunbeams--The Active wa...
10. CHAPTER X.Word of Exhortation--REASONS WHY WE SHOULD ABSTAIN FROM ALL QUESTIONABLE DIVERSIONS: 1. Our Church has always Condemned them; 2. Solemn Vows bind us; 3. Offenses disturb our Pas...
11. CHAPTER XI.Lafayette's Witty Illustration of Compromises--Mr. Bright's Description of Fashionable Religion--Compromise bad, even as a Policy--The World despises a Timid Church--Methodism h...
12. CHAPTER I.The prophet thus, as with a single stroke of his pencil, paints a beautiful picture of peace, plenty, and public security. In times of riot and wild disorder, the children are k...
13. CHAPTER II.What amusements, then, are rational and allowable? and to what extent may we indulge in them? We desire, before we discuss specific modes of recreation, to lay down certain gene...
14. CHAPTER III.The theater has its apologists and advocates. It is said to be a good place to learn history, human nature, and all that. Some plays are declared to be "as good as a sermon." As...
15. CHAPTER IV.The horse is, doubtless, a noble beast; but, by some strange fatality, all sorts of thieves and cheats gather round him while living, as do the hungry crows when he is dead. Hor...
16. CHAPTER V.Base ball may be made a very pleasant amusement, wholly unobjectionable either in regard to health or morals. Many of our readers well remember how it used to be played by the v...
17. CHAPTER VI.Dancing is one of these; and as attempts are being made at the present time to introduce it into circles whence it has hitherto been rigidly excluded, we honor it with the first...
18. CHAPTER VII.Cards are an old game--so old that it is impossible, not only to tell to whose ingenuity we may ascribe the useless invention, but even to name the land or the age in which they...
19. CHAPTER VIII.What is a NOVEL? A recent writer thus defines it: A novel is a portraiture of "something new falling within the domain of fancy or imagination, with its interest centering in lo...
20. CHAPTER IX.Time would fail me to examine the numerous and diversified amusements practiced in various parts of our land. Some are local; others are known every-where. Some are right and wi...
21. CHAPTER X.Before we part, will our young Christian reader "suffer the word of exhortation?" I am not unmindful of the situation in which you are placed. You have associates, intelligent,...
22. CHAPTER XI.On moral and religious questions compromise is treason to the right. Lafayette's witty and just illustration is well applied. He supposes two men to get into an altercation in r...