The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-11-03
SANCTIFIED PASTIME.
This Is the Term for the
Christian Endeav0r'S
Amusement.
WHAT THE SOCIETY MEANS BY IT,
Pleasant Meetings Of Young People
Interested in Good Work.

"Sanctified amusements"-This is what
the Christian Endeavor people call their
pastime, but just what the "sanctitied
amusementsn are but few have been able
to discover and even the Christian En-
deavor people themselves are just little
in the dark on the subject. OF course
card play and dancing are entirely out of
the list, and their chief social pleasures
consist of the milder games which are
considered to have no hidden germ of
evil in them. AT an evening gathering
which is graced by the presence of Christ.
ian Endeavor members, all sorts OF
games, rather enormously classified as
literary games, for example, the ever
popular consequences, authors or pro
verbs are generally played and prove about
interesting as could be expected.
Some new games are occasionally in
troduced. Angling, when first it made
its appearance. was quite eagerly well
coined and much played, but now its
glory is beginning to wane. Music of all
kinds is always q pleasing feature of these
affairs, but the one pleasure that takes
the lead of all the others, especially
with the young LADIES, is to go to church
on Sunday evening, or to prayer meeting,
escorted by a fine young man whom all
the other girls will want to know, and to
whom she won't introduce Them
I entered parlor a few days ago where
found group of young ladies, nearly
allsof them members of this society In
the centre of the group was young lady
who seemed to be telling something I'M
usual, Judging by the animated counten-
ances of her auditors.
Such wildly enthusiastic welcome
was given me that | at once surmised
there was some momentous question
under discussion. / was not long left in
the dark for my humble advice was
asked to settle the question which was
disturbing the minds of the young ladies'
1t seems that the young lady who occu-
pied the centre position of the group had
been escorted on the previous Sunday
evening to church by young gentleman,
who was especially popular with these
particular young ladies. The lucky girl
who had gone to church with him was
much dismayed when the plate was
passed for the usual collection to have
the young man place piece of money in
her hand to be placed in the plate.
This she did; but now the great ques-
ton was, should she have taken the
money, should she return it to him. or
should nothing be said about it, and, to
sum the whole thing up in IL few words,
was it quite the correct thing for him to
''WeIl, !" / enquired of one of the girls,
swhat would YOU have done under the
circumstances"
"Oh," said she, ~ think would have
quietly taken the money and then put
my own with it, and put them both in the
plate together
''That would have been an awful blum
DER interposed one of the others.
aWhy; the poor young man would have
surely thought that you considered his
Offering too small.
Were it ~ remarked mother, ~
would give the money back to him"
'.No. indeed said third one, that
would seem insulting"
COMMON gifNsE HER GUIDE.
''Well, said The prettiest girl OF all. ~