Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-20

Hsh nlngS 90 wrong at \ gaming
table, they shout: Foul! FOUL" Over
all the gaming tables Of the world ]
cry out: Foul! foul! Insnitoly FOUL
The church of God hes not seemed
willing to allow the world to have al
the advantage of the games of chance,
A church fair opens, and towards the
close 1t is found that some Of the more
valuable articles are unstable. Forth.
with, the conductors of the enterprise
conclude that they will rattle for some
OF the valuable articles. and, under pre-.
tense OF anxiety to
MAKE II MINISTER A PRESENT
or please some popular member of the
church, fascinating persons are dis
patched through the room, pencil in
hand, to 'solicit shares. or perhaps
each draws for his own advantage, and
scores of people go home with their
trophies, thinking that it is all right, for
Christian ladies did the embroidery and
Christian men did the rafting, and the
proceeds went towards Il new COM
munion set. But you may depend on
1t. that as far as morality is concerned,
you might as well have won by the
crack of the billiard ball or the turn of
the dice box.
Do you wonder that churches built.
lighted, or upholstered by such pro-
cesses rs that come to great financial
and spiritual decrepitude? The devil
says: II helped to build that house of
worship, and | have as much right
there ~ You have" and for once the
devil is right.
We do not read that they had a lot
terry for building the church ut Corinth,
or at Antioch, or for getting mp al en-
broidered surplice tor Saint Paul.
All this | style ecclesiastical gam
bling. More than one man who is de-
stroyed can say that his first step on
the wrong road was when he won
something at a church fair.
The gambling spirit has not stopped
for any indecency. There transpired
in Maryland a lottery in which people
drew for lots in "a burying ground!
This custom may make no appeal to
slow, lethargic Compartments, but
there are in the country tens of thou
sands of quick, nervous, sanguine,
eXcitable temperaments, ready to be
acted upon, and their feet will soon
take hold on death. For some months,
and perhaps for years they will linger
in the more polite and elegant circle of
gamesters. but, after awhile, their
pathway will come to
ii FINAL PLUNGE.
Finding themselves in the rapids, they
Will try to back out. and, hurled over
the brink, they will clutch the side OF
the boat, until their finger-nails, blood
tipped, will pierce the wood. and then,
with white cheek and agonized stare,
and the horrors of the lost soul lifting
the very hair from the scalp, they will
plunge down where no grappling-hooks
can drag them out.
Young man. stand back from al
styles of gambling. The end thereof
is death. The ten-pin alley affords the
best of physical exercise, and many an
hour have passed in some such place,
getting physical invigoration, but
many of the ten-pin alleys are now
given up TO gambling practices.
Shall sketch the history of the gam.
bier? Lured by bad company he finds
his way into
A PLACE WHERE HONEST MEN OUGHT
v TO GO,
He sits down TO his first game, but only
for pass time and the desire of being
thought sociable. The players dea
out the cards. They anconsciouslN
play into Satan's hands, who takes al
the tricks and both the players souls
for trumps he being Il sharper at an,
game. A slight stake is put up, just tc
add interest to the play. Game after
game is played, Larger stakes and
still larger. They begin to move merry.
ously on their chairs. Their brow.
lower and eyes flash, until now they
who win and they who lose, fired alike
with passion, sit with set jaws, anc
compressed lips, and clenched fists, anC
eyes like tire-balls that seem starting
from their sockets to see the final turn
before it comes; if losing. pale will
envy and tremulous with unuttereC
oath cast back red hot upon the hear
or. winning, with hysteric laugh
''Ha! ha! | have it!'
A few years have passed, and he j:
only the wreck of a man. Seating
himself at the game, ere he throws tn,
first card, he stakes the last relic o.
his wife-the marriage ring which
sealed the solemn vows between them
Take warning. You are no stronger
than tens of thousal Who have by THU
man in our cities a escape beine
tempted. Beware of the first begin
nings.
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