Excerpt from The Pulpit and the Stage: Four Lectures Let us turn from all this illogical nonsense to the sound common sense of Mr. Hall, m.p., and to the manly and muscular Christianity of the Rev. J. W. Horsley. Mr. Hall hit the right nail on the head when he urged that evil was to be found at the play because so many excellent people stayed away, and with undeniable truth he showed how necessary amusements were, and how much they might be purified by good example. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.