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|Tags=Famous | |Headline=John Bunyan is Very Seriously Interrupted at Tip-Cat, one of his Four "Chief Sins" | ||
|Text=<p>"I was in the midst of a game of cat, and having struck it one blow from the hole, just as I was about to strike the second time a voice did suddenly dart from Heaven into my soul which said, 'Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to Heaven or have thy sins and go to hell?'" </p> | |Salience=2 | ||
<p>Bunyan, John, < | |Tags=Famous, | ||
<p>Writing of Bunyan in 1885, Washington Gladden revealed that as a youth, "[t]he four chief sins of which he was guilty were dancing, ringing the bells of the parish church, playing at tip-cat, and reading the history of Sir Bevis of Southampton." | |Text=<p>"I was in the midst of a game of cat, and having struck it one blow from the hole, just as I was about to strike the second time a voice did suddenly dart from Heaven into my soul which said, 'Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to Heaven or have thy sins and go to hell?'"</p> | ||
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|Sources=<p>Bunyan, John, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Grace abounding to the chief of sinners</span> [London], per David Block, <span>Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 173. Autobiographical account by Bunyan, the author of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Pilgrim's Progress</span>. David notes on 5/29/2005 that this reference was originally reported by Harold Peterson, but that Peterson had attributed it to <span>Pilgrim's Progress</span> itself.</p> | |||
|Comment=<p>Writing of Bunyan in 1885, Washington Gladden revealed that as a youth, "[t]he four chief sins of which he was guilty were dancing, ringing the bells of the parish church, playing at tip-cat, and reading the history of Sir Bevis of Southampton." Letter to the Editor, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Century Magazine</span>, Volume 30 (May-October 1885), page 334. <strong><br /></strong></p> | |||
|Query=<p>Bunyan was born in 1628. Are we sure that this event can be dated 1666, when he was nearly forty years old?</p> | |||
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Text | "I was in the midst of a game of cat, and having struck it one blow from the hole, just as I was about to strike the second time a voice did suddenly dart from Heaven into my soul which said, 'Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to Heaven or have thy sins and go to hell?'"
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Sources | Bunyan, John, Grace abounding to the chief of sinners [London], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 173. Autobiographical account by Bunyan, the author of The Pilgrim's Progress. David notes on 5/29/2005 that this reference was originally reported by Harold Peterson, but that Peterson had attributed it to Pilgrim's Progress itself. |
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Comment | Writing of Bunyan in 1885, Washington Gladden revealed that as a youth, "[t]he four chief sins of which he was guilty were dancing, ringing the bells of the parish church, playing at tip-cat, and reading the history of Sir Bevis of Southampton." Letter to the Editor, The Century Magazine, Volume 30 (May-October 1885), page 334. |
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