Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-02


"Ha! Ha! We have him." and they have
How to get the extra $500 or the extra
g, 600 is the question. He says: Here is
my friend who started out the other day
with but little money, aud in one night, so
great was his luck, he rolled up hundreds
and thousands of dollars. If he got it, why
not /? 1t is such dull work, this adding
up of long lines of figures in the counting
house: this pulling down Of a hundred
yards OF goods and selling remnant; this
always waiting upon somebody else, when
could put 800 on the ace and
Pick mp . Thousand.
This sin works very insidiously. Other
sins sound the drum and flourish the flag
and gather their recruits with wild huzza,
but this marches its procession Of pale
victims in dead of night, in silence, and
when they drop into the grave there is not
so much sound as the click of a dice. Oh,
how many have gone down under it! Look
ut those men who were once highly pros.
pered. Now their forehead is licked by a
tongue of flame that will never 81, ouS. In
their souls are plunged me books that will
never be lifted, Swing open the doc: of
mat Rams heart and you see a coil OF ad-
ders wrissshng their indescribable horror
until you turn away and hide your lace
'and'ask Go6 to help you forget ft The
most Of this evil is unadvertised. The COM
munity does not hear of it. Men defrauded
in. gaming establishments are not fools
enough to tell it. Once in a while, how
ever
There Il an Exposure,
as when in Boston the police swooped upon
a genuine establishment and found in it
the representatives of all classes Of citizens,
from the first merchants on State street to
the low Ann street gambler; as when Bull
lock, the cashier of the Central railroad OF
Georgia, was found to have stolen $l03, 900,
for the purpose Of carrying on gaming
practices; as when young mau N one OF
the savings banks of Brooklyn, many years
ago, was found to have stolen $4,000 ID car
~ on gaming practices; as when man
connected with a Wall Street insurance
company was found to have stolen SlSCOO
to carry on his gaming practices. But that
is exceptional. Generally the money leaks
silently from the merchants till invo the
gamester's wallet. believe that one Of the
main pipes leading tolthis sewer ofin'quity,
is the excitement Of business life. 1t is not
a significant fact that the majority OF the
big gambling houses in New York are in
proximity TO Wall Street. Men go into the
excitement OF stock-gambling, and from
that they
Plunge iutO the Gambling Houses.
US when men are intoxicated, they go into
q hquor-s2loOR to get more drink. The
bowling, screaming, stamping, bedlamitsh
crew in the old-fashiOned Gold Room
dropped into the gaming-houses to keep up
their frenzy. The agitation that is wit
messed in the stock market when the CIair
announces the word Northwestern" or
Fort Wayne" or Rock Island" or New
York Central, and the rat, tat, tat OF the
auctiOneer's hammer, and the excitement
of making corners, and getting up pools,
and carrying stock" and break from
so to 20, and the excitement of ruStling
about in curbstone brokerage, and sudden
cries of Buyer g." Buyer TO-" Take
emp GLOW many?' and the making or
losing of $4,000 by one operation units a
man to go home, aud SO he goes up the
fight of stairs amid business offices TO the
gaily furnished inside, and takes his place
at the roulette or the faro table. But |
canrot tell the process by which men SCI
into this evil.
arr aign before Gcd the gift enterprises OF
our cisieS which lave have 4 tendency to
make this natioH o. gamblers. Whatever
you get in such place as thai without
giving proper equivalent is robbery OF
your own soul and robbery of the COM
munity. Yet how we are appalled, u see
men who have failed in other enterp~i"eS
90 into gift concerts where the chief attra5-
ton is not music, but the prizes diSOursed
among the audience; or to sell books where
the chief attraction is not the book but the
package that goes with the book. Tobacco
dealers advertise that on certain day they
will put money into their papers, so that
the purchaser Of this tobacco in Cincinnati
or New York may Unexpectedly come upon
a magnificent gratuity. Boys hawking
through the cars packages containing, TO.
body knows what, until you open them and
find they contain nothing. Christian men
with pictures on their wall gotten in lot.
terry and the brain OF the community taxed
TO find Qua some new way OF
Getting Things without Paying for
Them.
When a young man consents to these
practices he is being bound hand and foo.
by a habit which has destroyed "a great
multitude that no man ccn number
Sometimes these gift enterprises are car.
ried on in the name if charity; and you
remember at the close of the late war how
many gift enterprises were on foot, the
proceeds to go to the orphans and the
widows OF the soldiers and sailors. What
did the men who had charge OF those gits
entenprises care for the orphans and the
widows? Why, they would have allowed
them to freeze TO death upon their steps.
have no faith in charity which for the
sake of relieving present suffering opens
a gaping Jaw that has swallowed down so
much Of the virtue and good principle OF
Young man, have nothing
TO do with these things! They only sharpen
your appetite for games OF chance. Do one
or two things, be honest or die.
ebal nh /
the men in my audience on the lookout
II is a great deal easier to fall than it is TO
get up aga,r. The trouble is that whe
men begin to so assray from the path o.
duty they are apt to sly: There no use
Of my
I've sacrificed my respectability, l can't
return" and they go on until they are ut
terly DESTROYED. / tell you my friends
that Goo this moment, by His holy spirit,
can chance YOUR entire nature so that you
will 70 out OF this tabernacle far differ
eat man from what you were when you
came in. Your great want-what Is II?
More salary? Higher social po9itio1? No;
no. will tell you the great want OF every
man in this house il he has nos already OBJ
t:ined it. 1t is the Grace OF God. Are
there any here wEo have fallen victims TO
the sin that | have been repreheudlng?
You are in a prison. You rush against
the wall of this pr'son and try to get out
and you fail; and you turn around and
dash against the othes wall until there IS
blood on the CRATES and blood on yoIr
soul. You will never ges out in this way.
There is only one way OF getting out
There is key that car unlock thai prison
house. Ii is the
Key OF the House or David.
1t is the key that Christ wears at his
eirdle. II you will allow him this morning
10 put that key to the lock the bot will
shoot back aud the door will swing open
and you will be a free man in Christ Jesus.
o. prodisal, what business this is for
YOU; feeding swine when your -fasher
stands in the front door straininy his
eyesight to catch the frs, glimpse OF your
return, and the calf is as TAT as 1t will be,
and the harps of heaven are all strung and
the feet free. There are converted gamblers
in heaven, The light OF eternity flashed
upon the green baize of their billiard ST.
loon. In the love of Gods forgiveness
they washed off all their sin. Tney quit
trying for earthly sslkes. Thew
Tried for Heaven ard Won IT,
There stretches hand from heaven toward
the head o. the worst man in all this audi
ence. 1t is a hand not clenched as il to
smite, but outspread as if to drop benedic-