The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-03-22
GAMBLING"
A Discourse by Rev. 4. J.
Van Wagner that IL Full
of Interest.
The Vice Presented in . Manner
that Cannot Pail to Prove
Beneficial.

10O VlC0 6I00ouS0O IA y A0ooO
that Cannot Pail to Prove
Beneficial
The following able and instructive 81
mon Va DE- Tweed by Rev. Allen ]. Va
Wagner 1t the Congregational church lee
night, the edi6ce being filled vish inter
ested hearers:
"And they cruciied him. aud parted his gar
ments. casting Iots."-Matt. x7:s5.
I am to address you this evening On tb'
subject Of "Gsmbling." Ny text 10 on
account Of . game plsysd more thai
eighteen hundred ysass ego. At The too
of the cress Of our Savior, when he ~
vriihing in agony. the soldiers Who cruel
fed hin eat down asd cody gaobIsd fol
hB clothes. While his blood vas ~
warn on their stained hssds, they calmly
and indi6ersntly played the game for th,
clothing they he'd just stripped from hin
What . vivid picture Of The hearts ol
gamblers nearly two thousand ysan ego
And
THE PROFESSIONAL CAMILLA
OF to-day he's the cane chasscseristies.
There IL no more heart in the most Of them
than there vs. in tboss soldiers ut the loot
Of the cross. They fleece men Just q
eoolly and unmercifully Of the last thing
they have in the world.
Gambling il The stalking or winning Of
property on mere hazard; or it b the risk
ing Of something more or Len valuable in
the hope Of winning more than you hazard.
1t 10 obtaining. or endeavoring to obtain,
come good without rendering an equivs-
lent
The husbandman vendsrs produce for bis
gains. The mechanic useful labor. The
lawyer his knowledge, skill and judgment.
The business man goods, labor, time. in.
vestmsat.
The gambler renders for his gains the
eleishb Of useless skill, or moro often
DOWNRIGHT CHEATING.
Betting 10 gambling-lhere IL no honest
equivalent to it, gains. Dealing in fancy
stocks IL often the sheerest gambling. All
gains Of mere skill, when nothing fair and
just IL returned, 10 gambling. Lotteries
are gambling Institutions. All rsffling 10
Whatever the instruments en-.
ployed. il the principle Of rendering fair
equivalent for value received 10 violsted, il
is gambling.
Playing cards, the games Of billiards,
and ten pins, faro and keno are not gam
bling, unless stakes Of some kind are put
up.
Gambling has existed from the earliest
periods. Ii can be traced to nations the
most barbarous and ancient.
1t loses none Of it, attractions with the
growth of civilization. The craving for
i,s excitements grows stronger With every
age. and, although national, state and city
laws throughout
THE CIVILIZED WORLD DEE0CNcEs IT,
and attach penalties to it, yet the enforce
ment of them are 20 inefficient that the
rice has spread oil over the world. II l.
practically universal. Our great cities are
overrun with this traffic. In New Orleans
in scms streets every third or fourth house
is said 10 Be . gambling estsblishment. In
New York city there are some eight or ten
thousand gambling dens. In Philsdelphis
ZONE six thousand. In Cincinnati some
!wo thousand. At Washington the amount
IF gambling IL beyond calculation. NIL
lions Of dollars are equandered every year
II the gambling tables of our land.
EVILS or THE TRAFFIC.
The evils Of gambling are 20 many thst
caE mention but few Of them this eve
ming, leaving the rest for an address not
'ar il the future.
1t is diahooest. It 10 endeavoring to OBJ
ain money or property without giving
'oythine in return. 1t is the attempt to
scurs the property Of another without pay.
&C anything for il. II 10 opsn. bold theft
Then. the way the game h frsqusntly
,lsysd is dishonest.
Many ganbIen have aceonpliess Who
y wink or Sign tell them how to
,lay. Often the cards they play Nth are
marked. Many Of them, when the eye Of
heir competitor i turned, do NOT hesitate
o rob. Thousands Of gambler are thieves
md robben - we'll - gamesters. There
Ne said to be
HoNsT GAMBLERS
If you can undentsnd what that means.
They are the exception, not the rule.
A young man enters, for the fst time,
ne Of thsss gambling sssablishnsnts. He
. warmly received; i treated. y asked
o play. The fr,sndship shown him. the
Of Winning money overcome
i'm. he makes one Of . party vhe cit
own for game. For . time be VIM. |
lie becomes excited. Visions Of wealth |
iss before him. He drinks deeper. He
nally stakes all hs has. He loses. He h |
'uined! His brain svima. Rsmone
eises upon him. He lesvss for his room.
10 thinks Of his father and mother; Of his |
'apPy pest. He pluoges deeper into
rhine. He takes money from the sale. |
10 plays sssin. Loses. Again be losss. |
1e 10 found out. /, In prison he languishs',
criminal, With . stain upon him which |
IN never b o6aced.
Gambling 10 gsssrally destructive to |
leslth.
The late houn. he unnatural excite
nent The citation Of visaias. Tie rsosns
{ losing md The liquee drank, Ill ass . |
sarful drain upon he eyssso. Most pso-
sssioea: ssmblen physically slow
THE MARKS OF fnIID PROFESSION.