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title: 'Introduction to D.R. Thomason, Fashionable Amusements'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
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authors:
- 'Gardiner Spring'
date: 1831-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Children and Youth'
- 'Personal Piety'
- 'Family, Marriage, and Roles of Men and Women'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 16'
- 'Ecclesiastes 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/spring-1831-introduction-to-d-r-thomason-fashionable-amusements
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# Introduction to D.R. Thomason, Fashionable Amusements

A Christian critique of fashionable amusements—theatre, cards, dancing, novels—arguing they foster vanity, thoughtlessness, and endanger youth's piety. Calls families to restrain such pastimes.

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