THE THEATER AND SIMILAR WORLDLY AMUSEMENTS For thousands of years, worldly entertainment has included theatrical presentations. This took the form of live performances viewed by an audience. During her lifetime, Ellen White wrote many statements in condemnation of theaters and theater-attendance. You will find many of these statements in the tract compilation you now have in hand. Shortly after her death, two new forms of theatrical entertainment began: motion pictures and, then radio dramas. Both grew in prominence, overshadowing the tradition theater, until the 1950s when a new variation of the theater largely replaced both of them: television. This little home theater box has now become the giant in the playwright field, and in recent years has spawned cable TV, satellite TV, and video cassette movies played on video recorders. But, whether comedy, tragedy, violence, or otherwise, it is still the age-old theater. And it is condemned by the God of heaven. How should you relate yourself to the theater, whether it be movies, television, live dramatized plays, cablevision, or video cassette reruns of the old movies? For your own well-being, now and throughout eternity to come, you would do well to carefully read this compilation and consider its implications. Do not hurriedly toss it off as of little consequence. You have a soul to be saved or lost. And your influence will greatly affect the futurity of others in your home, particularly your wife, husband, children, or parents, as well as any that visit your home. Here is what God has said about this matter: While they profess to be Christians, they recommend to their patients, card playing, dancing, and attending theaters, all of which have a tendency to evil, or, to say the very least, have the appearance of evil, and are directly contrary to the teachings of Christ and His apostles. -1 Testimonies, p. 490.
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