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THAT SOCIAL HOUR
OBJECTS: A Series of Stunts and Pastimes
When I ask the young folks to spend a pleasant evening with me at my home, what shall I do to entertain them and give them a pleasant time? This is a vexing question. I do not understand the children at the play-hour. What shall I do?
You are entirely right; plan a play-hour for the children of "the meeting." They have a right to their play. God gave them that right. Help them to use it to the limit. Let them make merry with their friends. It will do more for them than just give them a happy evening; it will give them a blessed memory, for when they are grown up, and look back to their childhood days, then will they remember that their religion was all tangled up with smiles and glee.
In those older days they will not say Christians are "joy-killers" and have outlawed the smile. Write it down in letters which stick. They must have their play-hour, they shall make merry with their friends.
It may help you to build your program by looking over the following simple little stunts and pastimes. A half million children have given them their O. K.
1. Doing Something No One Else Can Do
Announce that you will do something in this room that no other person can possibly do, "I will seat myself where it will be impossible for another person to do so." Now, sit down in another person's lap. Nobody else can sit there while you sit there.
2. Can't See the Candlestick