Popular amusements . xhortation—Reasons why we should Ab-stain FROM ALL Questionable Diversions : i. OurChurch has always Condemned them; 2. Solemn Vows bindus; 3. Offenses disturb our Pastor and our Fellow-Chris-tians; 4, Our Errors injure the Unconverted; 5. Error marsUsefulness; 6. Compromise Positions hard to hold, eitherin Argument or Practice—Fight on the Right Line, . 169 CHAPTER XI. APPEAL TO THE CHURCH. Lafayettes Witty Illustration of Compromises — Description of Fashionable Religion — Compro- 8 . CONTENTS. mise bad, even as a Policy—The World despises a TimidChurch—Method
Popular amusements . xhortation—Reasons why we should Ab-stain FROM ALL Questionable Diversions : i. OurChurch has always Condemned them; 2. Solemn Vows bindus; 3. Offenses disturb our Pastor and our Fellow-Chris-tians; 4, Our Errors injure the Unconverted; 5. Error marsUsefulness; 6. Compromise Positions hard to hold, eitherin Argument or Practice—Fight on the Right Line, . 169 CHAPTER XI. APPEAL TO THE CHURCH. Lafayettes Witty Illustration of Compromises — Description of Fashionable Religion — Compro- 8 . CONTENTS. mise bad, even as a Policy—The World despises a TimidChurch—Methodism has Prospered—Our Laws strict—Folly to Come Down now—How the Worldly Parson an-gled for an Accession and caught nothing—What Mr. —The exact Right is the strong Position—Hold it-Let others Hive the Drones—Where other ChurchesStand—Testimony of the Presbyterians—The MethodistEpiscopal Church South—Young Mens Christian Associ-ation—The Roman Catholic Church—The End. Page 189. Introduction THE subject of which this book treats—Popular Amusements—is one of graveinterest to the Church and to society in Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Churchhas always required its members and probationers,as an evidence of religious earnestness, to refrainfrom such diversions as can not be used in thename of the Lord Jesus, and also from singingthose songs or reading those books which do nottend to the knowledge or love of God. In thefollowing passages of Holy Scripture, worldlyamusements or pleasures are denounced by God:He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor hear now this, thou that art given to 9 lO INTRODUCTION. pleasure, that dwellest carelessly. The conse-quences referred to in this quotation are statedin the following verses of the chapter. Beinglovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,is -classed by Timothy as one of the worst attri-butes of wicked men. How terrible is this state-ment: But she that liveth in p
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