Excerpt from Theatrical Amusements and Horse-Racing Under an affecting sense of the responsibility attached to the members of a community that professes to be believers in the self-denying religion of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world, and impressed with the grievous departures from the sobriety and pure morality which that religion enjoins, we feel our selves called 011, as those who must give account, to address our fellow citizens, and invoke their attention to the sad evidences of iniquity that abound in our midst, and to call them to a serious consideration of its consequences. It is a declaration of Holy Scripture, that right eousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. - Prov. Xiv chap. 34 v., and we feel that whatever tends to lower the Gospel standard of virtue, is detrimental to the best interests of the community. In this connection we have been led to consider the influence exerted by two of the most popular modes of public amusement - theatrical exhibitions and horse racing. 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.