Christianity and Amusements (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Christianity and Amusements Recreation is a phase of human experience universal in its interest, and has been rightly grouped with work and living conditions as "one of the three great master forces fixing the mundane welfare of human beings." The chief purpose of this book is to discover the degree to which the spiritual welfare of the people also is moulded by their amusement life, and the degree to which, in turn, Christianity is able to remould their amusements. There are many approaches to the subject, any one of which yields fruitage. The approach in this study is through the personal moral questions which are involved in popular forms of amusement. There is far-reaching wisdom in the words of Henry Churchill King, which may serve to interpret the method of dealing frankly with personal temptations which is here employed. "It is intellectual vagueness, I believe, which gives the chief danger to many forms of temptation.... The temptations are alluring only so long as their real implications are allowed to remain vague in the mind. Let them be fully thought and their power is gone. They will not bear investigation ... It is doubtless not advice to be followed in our weaker moods; but sometimes the very best cure for these insistent temptations is no longer to seek simply to evade their thought, but to turn a square look at them. In some clear high moment of vision, at a time when one is at his best, let him calmly and clearly face the facts as to these things which he has counted his greatest allurements. Let him turn a telescope on the Sirens and the Lorelei - the telescope of a little clear thinking. They are not so attractive as he has thought; their beauty is false and painted; their smile a leer." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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