Calvinism - pagina 97

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. not as though games of

all

kinds were forbidden, nor as

though something demoniacal lurked but because

selves,

93

in the cards

fosters in our heart the

it

them-

dangerous

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

Fortune

in

keenness

ennobling

is

which

cards,

chiefly

is

game which

is

decided by

of action, and range of

quickness

of vision,

experience,

A

Luck.

or

but a

in its character,

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 Forttcne.

kind of unbelief, every one of us

this

The

inchned.

is

power, outside of God, called Chance

imaginative

fatal

fever

of stock-gambling shews daily

how

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

cation

to

work.

their

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

would be

And

fostered.

ever-enduring

presence was

felt

his adherents as the never-failing source

they drew their stern seriousness of help

loathing

a

life,

game which poisoned

by Calvin from which

they could not

by

this source

Fortune above the disposition of God, and the

placing

hankering His

since the sensation

will.

Fortune,

after

To

chance above

fear

the

God, and to bid

firm confidence in for the favours

seemed to him as irreconcilable

as fire

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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