The authors states, " In preparing the following discussion, my aim has been to illustrate great principles by the light of early history for practical effects. All the material used is old; much of it is common to historians and antiquarians, and yet so scattered through and hidden in large works not in general circulation as to be practically inaccessible and unknown. The writer has no knowledge of any essay similar to this."

Part one deals with "Popular Amusements and Primitive Christians" and part two with "Lawful Christian Amusements."

In short this book answers the question: "What was the relation of our Lord's followers, in the first three centuries, to the amusements of a godless world?"

Scripture is also brought to bear upon this most practical question.