{"id":683,"date":"2008-08-10T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T21:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2008\/08\/10\/the-purpose-of-amusements\/"},"modified":"2008-08-10T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T21:30:59","slug":"the-purpose-of-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/10\/the-purpose-of-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/Miller\/SERMONS.htm\">J. R. Miller<\/a>, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/Miller\/in_green_pastures5.htm\">In Green Pastures<\/a>&#8221; 1890, via <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/\">Grace Gems<\/a>:<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Amusement must never become an <i>end <\/i>in life. It must always be a <i>means<\/i>, a <i>help <\/i>on the way&#8211;just as sleep is, just as rest is. An hour&#8217;s amusement, should be to you, just what a night&#8217;s sleeping is. It should make you stronger, clearer-headed, braver, calmer-souled, more hopeful, more earnest, more enthusiastic&#8211;inspiring you for godly living.  <\/p>\n<p>Anything which leaves a<i> taint of impurity<\/i> upon the life, or starts a <i>thought of impurity<\/i> in the mind, anything which degrades or debases the soul&#8211;is an unfit and unworthy amusement for a Christian. Christian amusements must be such, as do not harm spiritual life; they must be <i>means of grace<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. R. Miller, &#8220;In Green Pastures&#8221; 1890, via Grace Gems: Amusement must never become an end in life. It must always be a means, a help on the way&#8211;just as sleep is, just as rest is. An hour&#8217;s amusement, should be to you, just what a night&#8217;s sleeping is. It should make you stronger, clearer-headed,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/10\/the-purpose-of-amusements\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}