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VICTORIA UNIVERSITY
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POPULA R AMUSEMENTS :

THK DUTY OF THK OFFICEKS AND MEMUKR> OK THE
METHODIST CHURCH IN RELATION THEKETO.

AN ESSAY

UKAD BEFORK THE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION OF THE COBOURG ;

DISTRICT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH OF CANADA, ASSEMBLED

IN THE METHODIST CHURCH, COLBOHNE, MAY 'i.mii,

1382, AND PUBLISHED AT THE REt^UEST

OF THAT ASSOCIATION.

By the Rev. H. KENNER.

TORONTO :
WILLIAM BRIGGS,

78 & 80 Kino Strbrt East.

MONTREAL: C. W. COATES.

HALIFAX : S F. HUESTLS

1882.

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POPULAR AMUSEMENTS;

THE DUTY OF THE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE
METHODIST CHURCH IN RELATION THERETO.

AN ESSAY

HEAD BEFORE THE MINHTERIAL ASSOCUTION OP TUB COBOURG

DISTRICT OF THE METHODIST CHURCH OF CANADA, ASSEMBLED

IN THE METHODIST CHURCH, COLBORNE, MAY 23RD,

1882, AND PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST

OP THAT ASSOCIATION.

By the Rev. H. KENNER.

TORONTO :
WILLIAM BRIGGS,

78 & 80 Kino Strbrt East.

MONTREAL: C. W. COATES.

HALIFAX : S F. HUESTIS.

1882.

POPULAR AMUSEMENTS.

Mr. Chairman and Brethren of this Ministerial
Association —

There was but little need among Methodist Societies
one hundred years ago ot* an Esasy on Popular Amuse-
ments. An essay to strengthen courage to bear up
against the peltings of rotten eggs and brickbats, to
endure mockery and scorn, was much more called for
then. The agents of Methodism went among the
masses in their struggles, their poverty, and their
wretchedness, and expounded the Word which offers
Christ and His salvation, the Word which enjoins
thrift and economy. The acceptance of Christ and
the adoption of these principles has led to wealth and
honour: "The blessing of the Lord it maketh rich."
The sons and daughters of Methodism are now filling
many of the high places of trust in the nations. It
would be a blessing if they all, like McArthur, ex-
Mayor of London, and ex-President Hayes, of Wash-
ington, carried their principles up into the higher
circles of life. Her present high social prestige

POPULAR AMUSEMKNTS.

exposes her to very great danger. Wealfcli creates
power, independence, and a capability to gratify every
wish, rational or irrational; wealtli is imperious in
its bearing, and impatient of all restiaint. Its power
to feed ease, luxury, indulgence, and vanity, threatens
the true progress of the soul. Wealth is the offspring
of piety, but it is the ungrateful child that seeks to
wound and slay its parent. (])eut. 8th.) The call
from many quarters tor definition of the harmful and
harmless amusements, the desire for connexional sanc-
tion of amusements of some kind, we take as a sign
of departing spiritual life. So do not souls enquire
who experience " the joy unspeakable and full of
glory." So do not spirits long who anxiously ask,
" Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"

Is not the call for amusements for purposes of recrea-
tion areHection upon Divine wisdom and goodness ? Eacli
night was designed to recreate from the exhaustion of
the preceding day. Each Sabl)atli recreates from the
waste and wear of the preceding week. Besides this,
change of employment, mental or physical, material or
spiritual, is recreative. The superintendence of a
garden, an orchard, a herd, a liock, a poultry-yard, an
apiary, might occupy a life creditably and profitably.
fJladstone, Premier of England, amuses himself in
pruning the trees of his lawn with his axe, and thus
recreates his jaded powers for the onerous parliamen-
tary duties of the coming day. The poet Cowper's
three hares no doubt formed means of his recreation.
As mentally the turning from prose to poetry, and

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from poetry to prose is recreative, so in the Church ot
God the all but endless variety of eniployinents is both
restful and restorative. While there are hungry to be
fed, destitute to be clothed, sick to be visited, ignorant
to be instructed, a hundred and one benevolent and
religious societies to be sustained, is there any justifi-
cation of the thirst for amusements in religious circles?
Let us now look at a few of the employments in
which the votaries of pleasure seek amusement. That
which is most popular, because it has the greatest
power to charm, is the promiscuous pleasure dance.
As I consider this the most dangerous, it demands the
greatest notice. As the word fire is expressive of the
love of God, and the torments of perdition ; as the
word wine stands for an intoxicating beverage, and
for the choicest Gospel blessings ; so in the Bible the
word dance stands in connection with principles and
conduct which are directly opposite — as opposite as
sin is from holiness. The pleasure dance is no more
justified from the use of the word dance in the Scrip-
tures, than is modern drunkenness from the use of the

word wine.

What is claimed for this diversion by its advocates

and patrons?

1. That it is not worse than other evils. It is
acknowledged that theft is not so bad as murder; that
adultery is not so bad as manslaughter. Are we will-
ing to be found among evil-doers?

2. That it is only a little thing. Millions are made
of units, mountains of atoms. A match is a little thing,

POPULAR AMIJSEMKNTS.

yot Imtli it set many a village, a town, a city aflame.
Bankruptcy — social, financial, mental, and moral, re-
sult Itoim (lisrcfjard to iittle things.

3. That youth must have amu.sements, and are
incapahlc of lational intei'course and entertainment.
It is no flattery to the youth of our day and country
to plead that tliey have no capaljility r'or rational
entertainment, but must, therefore, take to tlieir lieels.

\. That it is an accomplishment! As to its being an
accomj)lislnnent, it has been recorded by a writer on
this subject that a " negro boy, seven years of age,
without the first rudiments of an education, could put
to blush the brightest star, and that a school-boy can
whittle a dancer out of a pine stick that will perform
scientifically l)y pulling a string ; and further, that in
the external grace of jumping about, the most accom-
plished can be surpassed by an Hottentot or an ape."

o. That it contributes to health. Our physicians do
not put it among their prescriptions as a health-
restorer.

6. That man was formed for society. That man
was formed for society is a fact ; but that social
relations formed in the ball-room are not well formed, is
also an historical fact well worth pondering.

While the best arguments that the lovers of carnal
pleasure can plead are not entitled to serious respect^
we have heavy charges against this diversion. Let
me now look at a few reasons why this Popular
amusement should be impeached. Let me begin with
the lower: 1. Divine precept exhorts us not only to

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avoid the substance but also tlie shadow Dancing has
the appearance of evil, and sliould he sluinned. (1 Thes.
5: 22.) 2. It is a worMly (livcrsion, "'. a moral rluasifi-
catloi: t has to be placed somewhere. It i net of God,
it must be of Satan. It it were of Divine origin it
would be as apjn'opriate for " Bishops and Deacons " as
for Church members. But tlui astonishment that their
participation would give to the patrons of the dance,
' proves that they do not consider it Christian either in
origin or character. *?. I impeach it as the destroyer
of health and life.

Let us pau.se to reflect on the lateness of the hour.
On the intense and prolonged exertion. On the
sumptuous diet at an unnatural hour. On the return
home amid a changeful atmo.sphere, and that all the.se
combine to push into an early grave the devotees of
the ball room, 4. I impeach it for its ruinou'< <lrain
upon the purse. There is the expense of the banquet
The expense of the wardrobe, and the expense of
tinie, which taken together have first mortgaged, and
then completely alienated many estates.

5. I impeach it for its immoral tendencies. It leads
to embezzlement, to carnal company, to the wine cup,
to jealousy, to prostitution upon a large scale, to
suicides, and murders. C. 1 impeach it because it
is destructive to Christian reverence. It destroys
communion with God. It destroys a love for Christian
ordinances. It weakens )ublic confidence, and thus
destroys Christian usefulness. It destroys a love
for Christian literature. It is destructive of a happy

POPULAR AMUSEMENTS.

Christian destiny. These are only a part of the
natural fruits of the mixed dance; as what is termed
the innocent private parlour dance, leads as surely to
the popular dance as that spring leads to summer, the
clear duty of the Christian Church is to make a clean
sweep of the whole concern.

As we cannot treat so fully each popular amusement
as we have treated the dance, we will weisrh them in
the Scripture balance, or test them by Scripture
principle. We will submit the following proposition :

A voluntary union of regenerate and un regenerate
persons, is forbidden in the Bible. '■ The friendship
of the world is enmity with God." " Be ye separate,
saith the Lord." The frequent objection that we
must go out of the world, to go from the ungodly, is
nothing to the point.

Necessary travel on land or sea, necessary residence
in country or city, necessary business compelling co-
operation in the material pursuits of life, do not con-
stitute moral companionships. The union of godly
and ungodly persons in playing dominoes, dice,
checkers, croquet, billiards, baseball, brass band, or
attendance at circus or theatre is a very different
matter because voluntarily engaged in.

To a brass band composed of godly persons, playing
none but moral or religious tunes, no reasonable
objection could be raised. But to one meeting in a
tavern playing lewd songs and dancing jigs, every
Christian should raise a protest, and of it form no
part.

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POPULAR AMUSEMENTS.

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The growing youth, whether at home, near tlieir
father's house, or students at college, who run and
skip in the play-ground, should not be intefered with
in their innocent gambol. But of competitive base-
ball clubs, formed in rum-shops, taking up challenges
in distant parts of the country, requiring time and
money to fulfil ; now flushed witl victory, and then
mortified by defeat ; and finally drinking the prize in
intoxicants. From this popular amusement turn away.
Let not Methodists take any part in it.

Boat-racing and horse-racing in their dangerous
strain on physical life. In tlieir betting and drinking
are immoral in their character and fruits, and with
the circus and theatre all too vile to require serious
argument from me.

If Cod hath ;^;'ven to man tirne with no profitable
duty to fill it up, then the mere shufi[ling of little
blocks of wood called checkers from place to place
cannot be strongly objected to.

But if no such time be given, and if checker -playing
be so fascinating as to interfere with the divinely-ap-
pointed duties of business and of the home circle, or more
charming than iove for religious literature and religious
ordinances, then the anr jement had better never be
learned. If a professing Christian father play checkers
to wile away an hour, and trains his family to be
expert at that game, is that parent prepared to reprove
those who gamble at that play, and should his own
sons join those who play for money or wine, could he
reflect and credit himself wuth having trained them

POPULAR AMUSEMI^NTS.

" in the way they should go ; " are not those who play
to murder time, and those who play for whisky until
they reel and stagger to their homes in some degree
morally related ?

How will an evening's sport at home at checkers
harmonize with Scripture sentiment and religious
devotion ^ Let us ascertain by bringing them into
proximity. We will suppose the evening has been
occupied by the father and his children at this game.
Nine o'clock is come. The Bible is called for. 1 Cor.
7. 29, is read. The reading is, " Brethren, the time is
short." After this the father announces Charles
Wesley's hymn, No. 3)7, and, before they kneel for
prayer, the whole family join in singing —

" How happy, gracious Lord, are wc,
Divinely draAvn to follow theo ;
Whose liours divided are
Betwixt the mount and multitude ;
Our day is spent in doing good,
Our night in praise and prayer.

With us no melancholy void.
No period lingers unemployed
Or unimproved below ;
f )ur weariness of life is gone,
Who live to serve our God alone,
And only thee to know.

The winter's night and summer's day,
Glide imperceptibly away,
Too short to sing thy praise,
Too few we lind the happy hours,
And haste to join the heavenly powers,
In everlasting lays."

POPULAR AMUSEMENTS.

Is there not a strong contradiction between tlie
evening's entertainment and the evening's devotions ?
Would not that father be strongly inclined to pass
exercises so condemnatory to his course ? Would he
come to the light that reproved his deeds ?

We will assume that moral philosophy and church
history say he would note warnings from the voice of
history. Churches, like individuals, are upon a state

of moral trial.

The Pharisees or Separatists, as their name implies,
were, about one hundred and fifty years before Christ,
supposed to be a most holy people. They originated
as ecclesiastical reformers. Matt. 23, tells their sad
character in the time of Christ. Churches formed by
the Apostles, favoured with Apostolic doctrine and dis-
cipline, we learn from the New Testament and early
Church history, soon fell into decay. The Lutheran
Church, with its glorious doctrine of "justification by
faith," had about the time of the Wesley's lost most
of its spiritual life. Has Methodism any guarantee of
continued vitality, witheld from the Churches whose
graves lie along the line of history ?

EARLY METHODIST PROTEST.

The early Methodists raised a strong protest against
indulgence in carnal amusements as the enemy of God
and of His Church ; God approved their protestation.
From the gay circles of carnal worldlings, and from
the wide doixiain of card playing and dancing religion-
ists, there have come to our Church vast thousands

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who, in tlie pastui-e ol' true Methodists, liave found
food more satisfying and inspiring than the husks
which the whole catalogue of popular amusements
could give.

Shall we cast aside this God-given lesson of our
history, and at a time when we have put to blush the
worldly fashionable, and more than half reformed the
vain indulgence of many religious bodies shall we
J ield to the specious pleading in behalf of " our young
people V Let us not thus throw away the lessons of
our history, and dishonor our traditions.

MINISTERIAL POSITION.

The position of ministers is, perhaps, the most im-
portant in relation to popular amusements. That
their protests may be effective, it will be requisite that
they shall have no complicity. If they shall fear the
loss of a subscription to their support from some one
who indulges in these games, then the example of
the rich will be followed by the poor. The conduct
of Church olHcers will be copied by private members.
Shall the denominational tree that, in the last hundred
and fifty years, has spread out its branches and become
the wonder and admiration of the nations — shall it
go on to grow in future centuries until the vast
millions of heatliendom bow in loyalty to our King ?
The true answer to this question largely depends upon
the attitude of her ministers in relation to carnal
amusements. May her ministers and office-bearers
never be reeds .«haken with the wind. Exodus 32, con-

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tains a record of two brother ministers. Tlie pliability
of one led him to help in making a heathen God, and of
silently looking on while the people danced around it.
The courage and righteous indignation of the other
led him to grind their golden god to powder, and
turned their dancing into mourning. May there never
arise a race of ministers as pliable and coiv irdly as
Aaron.

The duty of the minister is the intelligent educa-
tion of the Church on the character and fruits of
popular amusements.

THE SOUL NOT SATISFIED.

As surely as that the cravings of liunger imply an
unsatisfied nature, so the cry for popular amusements
proclaims a lack of satisfaction. To laugh at a man
will not satisfy his hunger. To threaten or to pounce
upon him with civil law will not satisfy his craving.
Give him a sufficiency of pure nutritious food, and his
voracious hunger will cease. When a profession of
religion does not satisfy, pernicious amusements will be
sought after, and the mere application of Church discip-
line cannot quench that thirst. In the early history of
Methodism the public services of religion had a great
degree of animation and spiritual life. Then popular
amusements were but little sought after. The pray-
ing, the singing, and the preaching, must be animated
with a greater degree of intoHigence, and true spiritual
life, and the cry for amusements will give place to the
rational, the pure, the substantial, and the lasting "joy

POPULAR AMITSKMENT8.

unspeakable and full of glory." " I shall be satisfied
when I awake with Thy likeness." Psa. 17. 15. Dur-
ing a special season of revival interest, popular amuse-
ments stand adjourned. Nor could they be made to
mix and mingle. Give popular amusements free
course and they will kill out spiritual religion. I )t
the entire membership of the Church be " filled with
all the fulness of God," and popular amusements will
die, as far as the Church is concerned.

CHRISTIAN PARENTS.

It is requisite that Christian parents should copy
the firmness of Abraham, and not the laxity of Eli in
the government of home. Then will the blessinsj of
the Lord be upon your families instead of being cut
otf in the flower of their age. If you would not have
the thistles grow% you must early scatter the wheat.
Let the voice of Christian melody, instrumental and-
vocal, be early and fully cultivated in your homes
Liberally furnish your circles with pure healthful
literature. The burden of news contained in the
Gu'irdiaii, Magazine, Sunheara, and Pleasant Hours
will prevent your life from being wearisome. Keep
your minds well informed on the state of the civil
and the religious world. Let the respite from physical
toil be filled up with efforts of mental and moral im-
provement. That will prepare you for usefulness in
God's Church, and a mansion in our Father's house.
Let the voice of a consecrated Church in its ministers,
its officers, and its members, be heard saying to '

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pleasure-loving world, " Come thou with us and we
will do thee good, for the Lord hath spoken good con-
cerning; Israel." But never let the Church join the
world as is mostly the case in'popular amusements.

Take my life ami let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee :
Take my moments and my days
Let them bow in ceaseless praise.

Take my hands and let them move
At the imimlse of Thy love :
Take my feet and let them be
Swift and beautiful for Thee.

Take my voice and let me sing
Always, only for my King :
Take my lips and let them be'
Filled with messages from Thee.

Take my love, my Lord, I pour
At thy feet its treasure store :
Take myself, and 1 will be.
Ever, only, all for Thee.

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