Extract From a Letter About Card Playing

“I used to be very fond of whist, and saw no harm in the game when played as a pastime in the family circle and parties. But when the Lord carne into my life, and I see now what I saw dirtily, that a Christian must glorify Jesus in the whole life, in every thought and word and act, and card playing does not do so, so I gave it up, and one whom I dearly love in our family much resented it, but as Mr. W. H. I. said, when relating his conversion and the subsequent cutting off of his operatic career, ‘I could not walk with one foot on the path and the other in the gutter.’”