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partake the innocent amusement of those whose situations will allow of their spending a part of their time in play . Let him on such occasions exhibit the conduct which virtue demands , and shew his friends how to shun the abuse of what need not
be abused in order to produce its desired effect , and wheii not abused may serve to promote social harmony and innocent mirth . I send you these observations , in the belief that you wilt not think roe an enemy to true pi&ty and rational religion , be- ' cause I love not an ill-guided enthusiasm and a methodistical EanU Your's . &c . R . S . T *
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ON [ DISSENTING MINISTERS PLAYING AT CARDS * To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , I was somewhat surprised at perusing the letter signed P . Q ^ on the subject of dissenting ministers playing at cardsy which appeared in the Repository for October * The general
strain and tenor of it seems to me much better adapted for that farrago of bigotry and absurdity which appears monthly under the title of the Evangelical Magazine . I shall endeavour , in reply to P . Q . to offer a few observations on the subject in question . The matter under discussion is briefly this ^ as stated in P . Q . ' s letter . " Is it consistent with the dignity of a dissenting minister to be a card-player , in his own house and
among his neighbours ? Is this practice likely to obstruct his usefulness , and to render him less qualified to fill the duties of Jiis station ? " In order to satisfy this question , the immorality of the practice of card-playing ought to be clearly defined and distinctly stated , and this would have been a sufficient argument not only for a minister ' s abstaining from it , but any other person whatever . But no : this does not suit P . Q .: he asserts ' , in a very triumphant and somewhat sarcastic manner , that Ci
there is nothing m the precepts of the Gospel , nor the life of Us founder , to sanctify this visage "—in other word 9 , " th ' e Gospel contains no rules for card-playing , neither do we find that Christ sanctified this usage by his own example . " The
absurdity of this method of appealing to the Scriptures for directions for the most trifling occurrences and practices of life cannot be too strongly exposed : it has contributed not a little to lessen the dignity ard value of its ordinances in the eyes of the unthinking ; and , as in the instance just quoted , it has served to blind or to distort the mental vision of many a sincere Christian . It is . incumbent on P % Q . to shew positively and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 648, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/32/
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