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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 776, 28 March 1910, Page 5

' The relation of the' Church to amuse, ments was hotly discussed at a Birniingv ham ruridecimal conference on Monday,. Most serious and sensibly people .agree . that to raiso Church 'vinos RF means ol , whist drives or dances is altogether m 7 congruous. But Bhould a church have its social club arid provide members witH opportunities' of .innocent recreation in.' the way of billiards,; cards, dancing, theatricals?' To offer a young man ■*" game of ."billiards when your real object is to get him to church, or to a Bibleclass, is rather despicable, ' said ona clergyman honestly. He was .inclined:, to think that,' by pandering to "the mad rush for pleasure," amusements provided by the Church in the end did more harm than good. Another clergy-', man pleaded for. the. view. of the Church as a family in which opportum- ; ties should bo given for the develop--ment of the social as well as the spiritual side of its members. Only ft; was necessary to see-that the amusements provided did not assume undue., proportions. This last view perhaps, on, the whole, represents the ripest wisdom. RwT. lssse of now Ho is. •*«"*•,..