Amusement must never become an end in life; it must always be a means, a help on the way, just as sleep is, just as rest is. An hours amusement should be to you just what a night's sleeping is, or what a day's resting is: it should make you stronger, clearer-headed, calmer-souled, braver, more hopeful, more earnest, more enthusiastic, inspiring you for better life. Anything that leaves a taint of impurity upon the life or starts a thought of impurity in the mind, anything that degrades or debases the soul, is unfit and unworthy amusement for a Christian. Christian amusements must be such as do not harm spiritual life; they must be means of grace.