TOO LITTLE “JOY”
THE LIFE OF TO-DAY (Special to the Herald.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. While preaching at St. Augustine’s Church, on Cashmere Hills, Archbishop Julius reviewed the present trend of amusement. He said that- when the literature of the peoplo was sad the life of the people was gay. There was no doubt that our present literature was sad. One had only to compare the modern -povels. He would not characterise them with those of Dickens and the writers of his time. He knew people who said that they could not read Dickens; that he was full of jollity and roast beef and Christmas and plum pudding.
“We arc In an age where gloomy literature prevails,” he said, “ami when life is more gay and the craving for amusement more pronounced, amusement is as much a matter of business as is industry. I have no complaint to make in regard to the amusements of the day, but I do complain that there is too little joy in them. Sport is as much a business as industrialism, if nothing worse. There is a vastly increasing amount of amusement in the world, and a desire for more, yet life is not the joyous life of the bid happy days. If we pursue amusement for its own sake, and* not as relaxation, it becomes a stimulant or a drug.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16378, 28 June 1927, Page 5
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