IMOTIVES IN RECREATION
COUNTRY GONE WILD, SAYS BISHOP. LONDON, November 23. “I believe we are extraordinarily near to something like idolatry of sport and amusement,” declared the Bishop of Chester, who recently presided at the Chester Diocesan Conference. When one read of the reception given in London to a kinema artist, whioh would hardly toe secured by, say, General Foch, he said, one could hot help hut think that the country had gone extraordinarily Wild and wrong in such a matter. Really and truly it was one form of national insanity.
ORGANISED SUNDAY SPORT. No one could deny the sordid motives of much of our recreation. In the background of it all there was a real meanness whioh touched the heart of the nation's life. One could not say anything for the wholesale encouragement of organised sport on Sundays, The real question, he added, was not what they should , not do on Sundays, hut what they ought to do. Church people ought to work together for the recovery of the Lord's Day. The character of their services should he reconsidered, and,, if necessary, alterations made.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11408, 3 January 1923, Page 5
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