The Minister's Recreations

Abstract

"By the term recreation, we must be understood to mean all forms of pleasureable repair to the waste of physical and mental power which follow the exercise of a man's legitimate occupations. That may seem a somewhat forbidding definition for a small matter, but a man with a calling will need to have an honest idea of the spheres of work and play. He may suffer physically from disregard of the latter ; and he will certainly suffer morally if he should treat the former lightly. We all know the contemptuous jest that Englishmen take their pleasures sadly. That is not a mortal offence so long as it does not mean that they take their work flippantly"