Amusement: A Force in Christian Training by

Rev. Marvin R. Vincent.

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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

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