Calvinism a life-system - pagina 97

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. not as though games of

all

kinds were forbidden, nor as

though something demoniacal lurked but because

selves,

fosters in

it

93

cards them-

in the

our heart the dangerous

tendency to look away from God, and to put our trust

Fortune

in

keenness

ennobling

is

which

cards,

chiefly

is

game which

in

its

decided by

is

of action, and range of

quickness

of vision,

experience,

A

Luck.

or

character, but a

decided by the

way

game in

like

which

the cards are arranged in the pack, and blindly distributed, induces us to attach a certain significance to that

To

or Fortune.

how

kind of unbelief, every one of us

this

The

inclined.

is

power, outside of God, called Chance

imaginative

fatal

fever

of stock-gambling shews daily

much

influenced

more strongly people are attracted and by the nod of Fortune, than by solid appli-

cation

their

to

work.

Therefore the Calvinist judged

that the rising generation ought to be guarded against

dangerous tendency, because, by means of card-

this

playing

it

of God's

and

his

would be

fostered.

ever-enduring

And

loathing

.

by Calvin

a

Hfe,

game which poisoned

they could not

by

this source

Fortune above the disposition of God, and the

placing

hankering His

felt

adherents as the never-failing source from which

they drew their stern seriousness of help

since the sensation

presence was

will.

Fortune,

after

To

chance

fear

above the firm confidence

God, and to bid

for the favours

seemed to him as irreconcilable

as fire

in

of

and

water.

Entirely different objections were entertained against Theatre-going.

— the

In itself there

is

nothing sinful

power of the imagination

is

in fiction

a precious

;

gift

of

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