Excerpt from Amusements, in the Light of Reason and ScriptureThe following pages have at least the merit of being written from conviction, and of being addressed to a subject of living interest to the church and the world. Men are actually more alert to the question how to be amused than how to be saved, and more money and time are spent upon amusements than upon churches and missions.Our present business is with the relation of the Church to this wide and fascinating domain. This essay is an attempt at a fair and candid discussion of this theme, which touches SO vitally the interests of the home and the church, and gives tone and color, strength or weakness to our social life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.