THE CHURCH AND LEISURE
THE RIGHT ATMOSPHERE
“The Copec report on leisure reminds the Church' that she should use her vast opportunities, her buildings, her resources. her personal influence, to make recreation beautiful and to make the life of the people, especially of the young people, happy in tlie right atmosphere," said Dr. Horton in an address. “You get here the recognition that games, gymnastics, dancing and dramatic performances are legitimate in Church, premises, that they are really part of the duty of the Church, if she can do it, in making the life of the people good, and directly the Church faces the actual conditions of life she is bound to make this provision, as far as her premises permit. This report, [ think, will put upon a firmer basis a practice which lias stolen in surreptitiously. without, as it were, the spiritual recognition that it deserves. It is the duty of the Church in these very modern societies to make opportunities for the use of leisure, to give recreation which will satisfy the young developing life among us and will make it unnecessary for those young people to seek their recreations where the snares lie all around their feet and there is a deliberate purpose, as it were, to break them down.'”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 21 July 1925, Page 9
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213THE CHURCH AND LEISURE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 21 July 1925, Page 9
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