ABSTRACT
If the football fever were confined to the fields of action it would be comparatively well. It is an amazing but indisputable fact that in those districts of country where the football fever is most rabid, and which happens to be the very heart of our industrial world, business is actually subordinate to sport in general and to football in particular. Clergymen, doctors, and others whose duties compel them to mix constantly with it, saddened and shocked as they may be by much that they see and hear, are unanimous in their declaration that beneath the dark, sullen dross there is a vast amount of bright metal capable of being brought to the surface with tact, skill, and forbearance, and that if but a tithe of the exertions and money employed in missions among foreign heathen could be invested nearer home the reward in time would be great indeed.
