Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-04-06
TEMPERANCE COLUMN
EDITED BY JoNEsBoRo W. C. T.. U

The downward path of sin and shame,
And crush my heart and darken his name"
But,
1t was something to her when that only son
From the path of right was early won,
And madly cast in the flowing bowl
A ruined body and a sin wrecked soul.
THE GAMBLING DoLLAR WILL EAT INTO
THE SOUL LIKE FIRE. 90
The practice of gambling-so fatal
to character and often destructive to
the soul, commonly begins just as
drunkenness begins. AT the bottom of
the first glass of wine or other intoxi-
cant lies the adder; and underneath
the first horse race or a ball match is
concealed a serpent. When a young
man puts up his first wager at q card
table or any game or race he puts a coal
OF fire into his bosom; and such Goals
often kindle into CONGREGATIONS which
will burn unto the lowest hell!n
Gambling for a dime is as essentially a
sin as gambling for a thousand dollars.
There is always a first inch at the top
of every p~recipice.
We do not declare that every one
who playes a game of whist is a gam
bier, any more than that every one
who drinks a glass of wine is a tip
pier. Yet cards are dangerous articles,
just as wine glasses are; and it is the
path of absolute safety to let both of
them severely alone. All games of
chance have a strange fascination.
Archdeacon Farrar truely remarks
that there is a gambling element in
human nature" and it must be kept
under watch in the same way as in
born sensual appetites are watched.
With the excitement of a game of
hazard comes a strong temptation to
risk a stake on the game; as soon as
the stake is laid, conscience is apt to
go with it, and the devil takes a hand
in the game. A winner increases his
stakes; a loser plays ON to make up
losses; and the only sale way, there
fore, is to stop before you begin.
Card tables and pool rooms are not
the only places where gambling is
practised. Tens OF thousands are
tempted to take small risk in mining
stocks or some other volatile ''securi
ties" that are playing up and down on
change. have known a half dozen
boys of respectable families to
poo" their pocket money in a venture
on a share OF two of stock.
The rage for gambling is increasing
frightfully. In the first place there is
a growing rage for getting rich quickly
and easily. The gambling element is
lnsinuating its self more and more
into trade; this is proved by the prevail
ence of Corners" options and
pools" in SO many lines OF business.
Old fashioned slow and sure methods
OF making money are smiled at, and
young men are dazzled by the occas.
ional success of daring operators. They
do not hear of the wretched cata,
strophes that overtake the ruined ven.
turers.
1t is time that every young man ban
ished that heathenish word luck out
OF his vocabulary. Life is not a game
of chance; and God never intended
this world to be a vast pool room" in
which success or failure turns on a
throw OF the dice. Let us not only
aim to put race tracks and pool rooms
under the ban Of prohibitory law, but
let us teach our young men that every
dollar gained except by honest indus.
try is, in the end. a loss, and will eat
into the soul like fire!-(Rey. DR.. Guy.
Ter in New York Evangelist.
Away on a Wisconsin farm, amid
the cedars sweet and fragrant and the
whispering fields of Indian corn, Miss
Willard caught the inspiration of hel
life from the mother whose strong and
sunny spirit made glad the solitary
place, and who brought into the
prairie wilderness a most intrepid in.
%tellect and a culture exceptionally
rare. The brightness of her own great
nature made that "desolate" place
blossom as the rose" for her children.
That enthusiasm for humanity which
characterizes Frances Wizards work
was breathed into her active mind by
one born and bred in the great free
soil State of the North, whose delight
it was to teach her little girl to read
from the ''Slave Friend"
What wonder that, in after years
one of the greatest achievements Of
Frances Wizards life was her mission
of reconciliation to the women OF the
South, while yet the scars of wal
throbbed in their breasts and new
made graves stretched wide between
sections that had learned the misery
of hatred. 1t was the white ribbon
taken by her tender hands, that bound
those wounds and gently drew the
noble hearted women of that sunny
land into the hospitable home circle OF
the w c. T. U.
Sacrifice is the foundation of al
real success, and it was a crucial mo
ment in Miss Wizards life when sh,
resigned the brilliant position of dear
of the first woman's college connected
with a university in America, anC
went out penniless, alone and mineral
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