: Belford's Magazine Vol. II No. 3 February 1889 Dec 1888-May 1889 by Various - United States Politics and government Periodicals

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INTRODUCTION.

Subject one of Grave Interest--Rule of Discipline--Charles Wesley and the Ministers--The True Ground--Our Destiny, and on what it Depends--The Sentiment of the Methodist Episcopal Church--How a Minister may seek Recreation--How a Layman--Recommendation, Page 9

RECREATION A GOOD THING.

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 Separation neither Desirable nor Possible--One or the other must Yield--The Church can not--Conscience Resists--Principles are in the way--The World can Yield and Lose Nothing--The World ought to Yield, 17

TRUE RECREATION.

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 not Injure Health; 5. Must not Waste Money; 6. Must not Waste Time; 7. Ought to Improve the Mind and the Heart; 8. Ought to Impart Pleasure, Page 31

THE THEATER.

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 "Respectable"--Failure, and the Causes of it--Strategy and Calculation--Who must be Pleased, and how--Immodest Costume an Indispensable Attraction--Circular, and Reply of Actress--Birds of Prey--Traps Game for them--The fable of Satan and the Monk--Theater can not be Reformed--Cage of every Unclean Bird--"Come out of her, my people," 47

HORSE-RACING.

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 Boys with their Colts--Strange Man and Horse--Science--Victory--The Effect on gawky Boys--Reasons against Horse-racing--Expense--Bets--Fraud--Riot-- Villainy of All Sorts--How the thing is done, and the People cheated--Quotation from Thomas Hughes, M.P., Page 63

BASE BALL.

The Ancient and Honorable Way--Latter-day Absurdities--"Great National Game"--Clubs; how formed--Science--Professional Players and their Salaries--Expenses--The Exotics challenge the Cupids--Game described--Victory--Supper--Speeches--Glowing Account in Papers--Pain-killers--Bubble must Burst--Decay--Reasons against the Game as now conducted--Foolish Exhibition--Bets--Cheating--Waste of Money--No Good Result of any sort, 77

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