Now let us see what a difference it makes to life to hold and apply this belief. There is no department of our life that may not be transformed by it.
Take for instance recreation, including the games and sports that lay such a spell upon our vitality in holiday seasons. There are two standpoints from which they can' be-viewed; our spiritual basis may either be confessed or denied. There are people who play games to kill time, because they have nothing to do except perhaps hold a few directorships. The average Englishman of that kind is said to have one resource on aaoh occasions. If he can only one hn like-minded he, says, "Let us go out and -kill something." Then there are those who compete in games simply for the prizes they can collect, although one of the first laws of a schoolboy is to count the game above the prize." Again, there are many—indeed, a multitude—whose only interest in sport is the {prospect of making money out of it, and that. on the chance of what others' do. In all these cases it is evident. that the material side of things has warped a human function.
But how different it can all be. In the pursuit of the creatures of nature you can be armed with a camera instead of a gun. Then, instead of being a lord of the dead, as some seem proud to be, you can be a lord of the living, as Adam was in the Garden of Eden, possessing the wild and beautiful things by your knowledge. So with all sports and games. They can be enjoyed as a means to bodily fitness, because men are properly afraid of flabbiness as an huniiliation of the spirit. When the Queen of Sheba came to see the
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