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Christian View of Amusements Like Chess

Chap. Eighty - What Shall We Play?

Substitute the Innocent for the Sinful.--Youth cannot be made as sedate and grave as old age, the child as sober as the sire. While sinful amusements are condemned, as they should be, let parents, teachers, and guardians of youth provide in their stead innocent pleasures which will not taint or corrupt the morals. Do not bind down the young to rigid rules and restraints that will lead them to feel themselves oppressed and to break over and rush into paths of folly and destruction. With a firm, kind, considerate hand hold the lines of government, guiding and controlling their minds and purposes, yet so gently, so wisely, so lovingly, that they will still know that you have their best good in view. {AH 498.1}

There are amusements, such as dancing, card playing, chess, checkers, etc., which we cannot approve because Heaven condemns them. These amusements open the door for great evil. They are not beneficial in their tendency, but have an exciting influence, producing in some minds a passion for those plays which lead to gambling and dissipation. All such plays should be condemned by Christians, and something perfectly harmless should be substituted in their place. {AH 498.2}

While we restrain our children from worldly pleasures that have a tendency to corrupt and mislead, we ought to provide them innocent recreation, to lead them in pleasant paths where there is no danger. No child of God need have a sad or mournful experience. Divine commands, divine promises, show that this is so. Wisdom’s ways "are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." [BEGIN P.499] {AH 498.3}

While we shun the false and artificial, discarding horse racing, card playing, lotteries, prize fights, liquor drinking, and tobacco using, we must supply sources of pleasure that are pure and noble and elevating. {AH 499.1}

Source: White, E. G. 1952;2002. The Adventist Home;AH;Adventist Home . Review and Herald Publishing Association

See also:

• Seventh-Day Adventist Thoughts On Recreation
• What About Amusements In A Hospital Or Health Sanitarium

Search Results in the writings of Ellen G. White for chess

• Adventist Home (1 occurrences in 1 articles)
  • Substitute the Innocent for the Sinful. [Page 498] 1
    • amusements, such as dancing, card playing, chess, checkers, etc., which we cannot approve
• Australasian Union Conference Record (1 occurrences in 1 articles)
  • How to Spend Holidays
    • amusements, such as dancing, card-playing, chess, checkers, etc., which we cannot approve
• Counsels on Health (1 occurrences in 1 articles)
  • Periods of Relaxation [Page 195] - amusements, such as dancing, card playing, chess, checkers, etc., which we cannot approve
• Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students (1 occurrences in 1 articles)
  • Chap. 49 - How to Spend Holidays [Page 346] - amusements, such as dancing, card playing, chess, checkers, etc., which we cannot approve
• The Kress Collection (1 occurrences in 1 articles)
  • Hygienic Restaurants [pgpara.143.5] - came there to board and room brought in chess playing and many other amusements. This
• Messages to Young People (1 occurrences in 1 articles)
  • Chap. 133 - How to Spend Holidays [Page 392] - amusements, such as dancing, card-playing, chess, checkers, etc., which we cannot approve
• Mind, Character, and Personality, Volume 2 (1 occurrences in 1 articles)
  • Relaxation and Rest Essential. [Page 736] - amusements, such as dancing, card playing, chess, checkers, etc., which we cannot approve
• Pastoral Ministry (1 occurrences in 1 articles)
  • Sabbathkeepers tend to neglect needed recreation. [pgpara.247.3] - amusements, such as dancing, card playing, chess, checkers, etc., which we cannot approve
• Recreation (2 occurrences in 2 articles)
  • Chap. 7 - How to Spend Holidays [Page 21] - amusements, such as dancing, card-playing, chess, checkers, etc., which we cannot approve
  • Chap. 20 - Physical Labor an Aid to Recovery [Page 49] - Such mental exercise as playing cards, chess, and checkers, excites and wearies the brain
• Review and Herald (4 occurrences in 4 articles)
  • QUESTION NUMBER SEVEN. - THAT YOU APPROBATE SUCH VAIN AMUSEMENTS AS CHESS, CHECKERS, CHARADES, BACK-GAMMON, HUNT-THE-WHISTLE
  • Answer. - I do not know how to play at checkers, chess, back-gammon, fox-and-geese, or any thing
  • Answer. - condemns them,--such as dancing, card-playing, chess, checkers, &c. These amusements open the
  • Answer. - such mental exercise as playing at cards, chess, and checkers, excites and wearies the brain
• The Seventh-Day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume 1 (1 occurrences in 1 articles)
  • The Aristocracy [Page 152] - eat. They also played games resembling chess, while sitting at the table. The clothing
• Testimonies for the Church, Volume 1 (2 occurrences in 2 articles)
  • Chap. 87 - Recreation for Christians [Page 514] 1 - amusements, such as dancing, card playing, chess, checkers, etc., which we cannot approve
  • Chap. 99 - The Health Institute [Page 555] 2 - Such mental exercise as playing cards, chess, and checkers excites and wearies the brain
• The Seventh-Day Adventist Encyclopedia (5 occurrences in 1 articles)
  • Recreation And AmusementsA?Create (5) - another class, such as marbles, checkers, chess, fox and geese, dominoes, billiards, backgammon
• The Ellen White Writings Topical Index (3 occurrences in 3 articles)
  • 3. Things that ill affect 1
    • MH 273 breathing that is shallow 2T 67-8 chess playing 1T 555 chilling of extremities MM
  • Chess playing 2
    • God enshrouding, seen by Isaiah RC 338:1 Chess playing , exciting influence of 1T 514 God
  • 2. Miscellaneous 3
    • playing; Card playing; Checker playing; Chess playing; Cricket; Gambling; Sports Supplement

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