His Views and Principles
outrageous licence which some persons who write for the public press seem to allow themselves. A friend of mine, a man of rather lax views, is in the habit, I am sorry to say, of taking in regularly, week by week, a well-known Sunday paper, which is partly concerned with the subject which we have been discussing—the Drama—and partly with the degrading and destructive topic of horseraces. I have noticed also some columns which appear to be of a jocular nature, but as the jests they contain are couched in a language which to me is quite unintelligible, and as these jests appear in some way or another to have become mingled with advertising matter, I shall say no more about the columns in question. I have often reproached my friend for taking in this paper; I have pointed out that the Fourth Commandment is not only binding in its strictest, most literal sense on all Christian people, but also prohibits every kind of relaxation or amusement, and it is relaxation and amusement, as I have urged on him, that the Sunday Paper is intended
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