The Newtown bee., 1890-01-31
Cards in the Family.

One of your correspondents asks if it is | wrong to play cards. l answer most emphatically, "Yes.''
 "What? Can there be any harm in amusing ourselves of an evening with cards in our own parIor with d few friends? Perhaps not, if that were the only way in which these cards were ever used. There might in that case be no particular harm in them, but from the l associations connected with them and the uses they have been put to, they have become most powerful agent for evil and that ought of itself to be sufficient reason why Christians should let them alone. St. Paul says, All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient' and, ''If meat make my brother to offend I will eat no meat while the world standeth.' So, if you and have these cards in our homes and teach the game to our children and our friends occasionally join us in d harmless game of euchre and realize no harm from so doing, there may be among those that accept our invitation one that would be come fascinated with the game and who would develop a passion for gambling that in time would prove his ruin. Are you willing to take the responsibility of that wrecked life and lost soul?
 Again, we know that these same harm less cards are to be found in hundreds and thousands of evil places throughout this fair land, in saloons, pool-rooms, low dives and houses whose name is scarce to be mentioned; and that thousands are spending their time over them, wasting their money, ruining their regulations and losing their souls through this mad passion that has gotten hold of them. And then, are we, intelligent and edu- cated people, living in bright and com fortable homes, surrounded with books, music, friends, flowers and the beauties of nature and with more or less oppor- tunity for studying the arts and sciences occupied, too, with the duties that come to all of us, and above all, possessing, if swe will, the pearl of great price, are we yet so destitute of the means of recreat- ion that we must go to the devils own haunts and beg his own special pet toys and bring them into our homes to help us to pass away the time and delude our selves with the idea that they are harm- less? No, not for very shame; not for the respect l have for myself; not while f I have any of the love of Christ in my heart will I consent to any such ainuse- ment.
 :, In conclusion, Jet me relate a little incl dent. \ man was injured so that he could not live. lis anxious friends 1 wanted to call in minister and named q brilliant young Presbyterian divine. The dying man raised himself up on his elbow and, with scornful laugh, said Why, I've played more than one game of cards with him and he never said word to me about my soul; send for old Father A | Now, l do not pretend to be that min- ister's judge and to say that he was no Christian because he occasionally played q game of progressive euchre, but you see how it looked to q dying man.
 Dear Christian friends, the world will strive i'll every way to get us church members to go with it and then it will despise us for yielding.-[ Mrs 4. M. CampbelIin Witness, published by re quest.
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