"Will you please print in your magazine why Christians shouldn't play a game of playing cards?"
Answer: This question has been asked and answered hundreds of times. The one who is now penning this answer is himself no stranger to the lure of the playing card. But when the grace of God came into his heart to deliver from this present evil world nearly fifty years ago, the playing cards passed out of his life along with light and trashy literature, the theater, and the club.
No spiritual minded confessor of our Lord Jesus Christ could sincerely raise the question as to the inconsistency of card playing for the saints of God. We have only to think of the abhorrence of the idea of trying to fit our blessed Lord into fellowship with such carnality, to see its gross contradiction to His Spirit.
Is it not a matter of common knowledge that every saloon, gambling hall, jail, gangland, and brothel is a natural habitat for this noxious weed-card playing? To give it, then, a permissive sanction in the believer's life is to close both ears and heart to the ringing warning of 2 Cor. 6:17, 1817Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. (2 Corinthians 6:17‑18):
"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."
C. H. B.