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Title: Amusement: A Force in Christian Training

Author: Rev. Marvin R. Vincent.

Release Date: April 8, 2008 [Ebook #25018]

Language: English

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*Amusement: A Force in Christian Training*

By The

Rev. Marvin R. Vincent

Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Troy, N.Y.

Wm. H. Young, 8 & 9 First Street

Troy, N.Y.

1867

CONTENTS

Preface.
Religion And Amusement.
The True Nonconformist.
The Church And The Young Man.
Thoughts For The Clergy on the Amusement Question.

PREFACE.

These discourses are not presented as a series. With the exception of the
last, which was prepared merely for publication, they were delivered at
considerable intervals, and to meet certain aspects of the subject as they
presented themselves. As they all develop substantially the same
principles, they will probably contain some repetitions. The interest
awakened by the publication of the essay before the Albany Convention, and
the very general desire expressed to see the second and third of these
discourses in print, have decided the author against remoulding the whole
into one treatise which he at one time contemplated. He therefore sends
them forth in their original shape, with earnest prayer that the great
Head of the church may use them, with all their imperfections, to awaken
Christian thought and friendly discussion on a subject of vital importance
to the welfare of our youth.

Marvin R. Vincent.

Troy, _Jan. 9th, 1867_.

RELIGION AND AMUSEMENT.

An Essay, Delivered at the International Convention of Young Men's
Christian Associations,

Held In Albany, June 1, 1866.

The religious thought of the age must soon face this subject more fairly
than it has yet don