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GOOD TIMES WITH THE JUNIORS




  Good Times
  With The Juniors

  By
  LILIAN M. HEATH

  [Illustration]

  United Society of Christian Endeavor
  Boston and Chicago


  COPYRIGHT, 1904,
  BY GEORGE B. GRAFF




Preface


“Good times” may be either work or play. But work and play--who shall
define them truly?

Our block houses, toy engines, and dolls once seemed intensely real and
important to us. They are not so now. In the same way, as we grow into
the still larger consciousness, into the “life more abundant,” much that
we now regard as of grave moment will take on a new aspect, and we shall
see that it was only play. But play is blessed, and necessary to the
very growth that discards it.

A dear enthusiast in certain lines of work, who is himself growing, I am
sure, once publicly expressed the belief that too close (!) an adherence
to the Christian Endeavor pledge results in a kind of “paperdolatry”
tending toward idleness and pauperism. Dear, dear! Can this be true?

A look around the social and business world of to-day ought to settle
the question. We take the look, and breathe more freely. Endeavorers
here, Endeavorers there, in places of honor