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Sunday Sports and MoralityBy PROF. CHARLES R. HENDERSONOf the Chicago University.v **• !;/*•'/•••■ . .* i • • * • • ■*..*’ * •. • *»• : .* ■ : •’*. • ’•*lt; «'. * J*.’. * • '\w. ■ Al-’** \rT *•UNDAY baseball following participation in Sunday religious exercises is a valuable and an easily available means of promoting morality among young men and boys of limited opportunity.I know that in taking this position J shall be considered unorthodox and that other Protestant ministers will criticise the stand that I take. But after going over the entire situation the conclnsion that I have reached is inevitable.We have here a great group of boys passing through the years of adolescence. They are entering a new world, a world full of new energy. They do not know what to do with themselves. * Thev must, therefore, be kept busy. They must be given constant and active outdoor occupation every day, including Sunday.We Protestants are doing nothing adequate for the boys of our slums. We are hardly touching the edge of that great part of our population. On Sunday those boys, like all other boys and young men. will do something, they will go somewhere—to the saloons if nothing better engages their attention. How infinitely better it is to have them either participate in or witness baseball games.The Roman Catholic clergy all over this country as well as abroad are right in the position that they maintain on this question. Catholic priests even more than Protestant ministers get their boys to church Sunday mornings and then they encourage them to play baseball and engage in other sports Sunday afternoons. They know the boys better than do the Protestant pastors, for the lads tell the priests at the confessional of their temptations and sins.The thing to do for boys at this age and young men a little older is to give them healthful recreation. Keep them busy and they will be kept away from vice and crime. If you can tide them over this period of restlessness they will settle down as strong, moral men, helpful members of society. Crime is always the misuse of some good natural impulse.OUR ALPHABET FOR JAPAN. ART IN FOOD ADULTERATION.
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Moulton Advertiser
Moulton, Alabama, US
Thu, Oct 15, 1903
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