Chessboard

“Be watchful; the world is the deviVs chess-board; yotc can hardly move backward or forward, but he is ready to attack you by some temptatioji.’” Those who play at the game of chess know that great circumspection is needed. Your opponent is working towards a design of which you know nothing, and while you imagine that you are doing exceedingly well he is entrapping you. The game of life, as against Satan, is one in which his age, his long practice, his superior skill, and his unscrupulousness give him an immense advantage over our poor self-conceited folly. Lord, help us, lest we lose our souls while we are dreaming of happiness. Thou knowest our adversary, be pleased to deliver us out of his hand.