Excerpt from The Church at Play: A Manual for Directors of Social and Recreational Life For several years the author has given courses in this subject in Boston and in Northwestern Universities. Supervised practice or demonstration work has been carefully carried on. The students who have specialized in this field have been of very great service in dis covering materials and in adapting them to use in the church. In preparing this handbook the writer has had in mind the needs of these former students, many of whom are now holding important positions on the staffs of well organized churches, and of all other per sons who feel the challenge of using leisure time, under church auspices, for character-building purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.