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 summer camps, moonlight parties, pleasure excursions, and picnics. The amusements to which people give themselves up on such occasions, and which fascinate them these games, carousals, and masqueradings, these sentimental plays and sensuous musical performances, these flirtations and drinking bouts, all have for their object, not moderate and wholesome recreation, but sensual enjoyment, such as unduly excites the imagination, arouses the passions, results in physical and mental depression, enervates the will, makes one indifferent to duty, and opens the door to violent temptations

The circumstances that attend such festivities certainly constitute rocks on which innocence may easily be wrecked.

6. Another reprehensible practice which is prevalent in some places, even among country lads, consists in roaming about at night, perhaps past midnight, drinking at intervals, behaving in a vulgar and boisterous manner, annoying and insulting women, disturbing people in the midst of their slumbers by shouting and singing, and indulging in scandalous pranks.

This is certainly very objectionable conduct, a very equivocal pastime; and yet to many young people it appears to cause enjoyment. A decent, self-respecting young man will not engage in such sport, which is fraught with danger to innocence. From such "pleasures" as these he will turn with horror.