HOCKEY.
IN THE STUART TIMES.
•Hockey enthusiasts will be amused by au interesting reference to the game, made by Green in his short English history, when writing of the Puritans of Cromwell’s day. He says of Bunyan, using that writer’s own words: “When I was but a child of nine or ten years old, these things (visions of the hereafter) did so distress mv soul that then in the midst of my merry sports and childish vanities amidst my vain companions, I was often much cast down when I afflicted my mind therewith. Yet could I not let go my sins. ” The sins he could not let go were a love of hockey and of dancing on the village green. . . A sermon had drawn him for a time from these indulgences, but he says .the temptation again overpowered his resolve. “I shook the sermon out of my mind, and to my old custom of sports and gaming I returned with great delight. ’ ’
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 November 1924, Page 10
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162HOCKEY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 November 1924, Page 10
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