Sports or Church?
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I WANT TO PLAY HOCKEY
George moved with his family to Canada about a year ago. He is eleven years old and in the fifth grade at school. George is very good in sports and although hockey was not a sport played in the country in which he originally lived, the game is now of great interest to him.
George has attended local hockey clinics and recently joined a hockey team as a regular defenceman.
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However, a problem now faces George and threatens to end his short hockey career.
George : Father, I made the hockey team. Our first game is in two weeks.
Father: That’s good, George. How often do you play?
George: Usually about once a week. Then there are practices, of course. Can you take turns driving some of the boys to the Sunday morning practices? All the parents are going to help.
Father: Sunday morning? What time are the practices?
George: 10:00 A.M. It takes about half an hour to drive to the arena.
Father: You know very well you go to church at that time. You’ll have to miss those Sunday practices.
George: I can’t. they won’t let me play unless I’m at the practices. Sunday is the only time that ice is free for our team.
Father: I can’t help that. Church is far moreimportant than any hockey practice. You are not going to start missing Church just to play some game. Understand that now.
George: But everyone else on the team can go. Their parents are even taking them to the arena. – I have to go!
Father: You have to go to Church. That is the end of it. It can’t be that
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important. Why, I had never so much as heard of this game until we came here.
LOOKING AT THE FACTS
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