St. Paul daily globe., 1895-05-13
REV. DIR. MILLARD TURNS THE
SAME AND PRODUCES A
BROWN ROAST.
10 MAKE HE'LL ON EARTH
rs THE SURE AND THE MAIN RE.
SUIT OF THE FEVER FOR
GAMBLING.
GENTEEL FORMS OF THE VICE
Are Treated With Scant Show of
Mercy by Plymoutll,s Pas
tor.

A direct and practical sermon was
delivered by Rev. Watson B. MfIlard
yesterday afternoon at the Plymouth
Congregational church. Said Mr.. Mil
lard, in substance:
81 desire to speak upon gambling
as a current topic, for such it is.
Few realize to what a frightful ex-
tent this evil penetrates into every
thread of the social fabric. In the
word gambling I include all that it
describes in its largest sense, all
cases where anything of value is
risked upon the outcome of events or
chance. Thus it includes, not merely
the playing Of such games as faro,
roulette, vingt ct un, not merely
horse racing bets and pool selling,
but also the various chances taken by
people who consider themselves. dis
graced to be allied in any sense with
common gamblers. The boy CANDLES,
nevertheless, who plays marbles for
keeps the woman CANDLES who
takes the smallest prize upon the re-
suits Of progressive euchre; the man
CANDLES who has aught to do with
the raffies, the prize distributions de-
pendent upon chance, which have be-
come so common among many
branches of commercial life. 1t is
needless to add that all forms of spec
ulation, properly so called, are rec
ognized as gambling somewhat dis
in
these various manifestations is
SAPPING THE LIFE
and prosperity of our society. 1t has.
been well and foroibly said, Drink
and debauchery ruins it's thousands.
gambling its tens of thousands.
GAS to it's effects upon the individ-
ual, gambling is similar to the drink
habit There is, for instance, the
first glass, which possesses fascina-
ton that means slavery and degrada-
ton. So with the first bet. There
! is always the temptation of possible
| gain. Perhaps we too may be gamers
in our venture. If we win, we may
add a gratifying amount to our in
come or we may even make fortune
Once begun the evil fastens itself
upon one, and at length becomes a
habit essential, as the victim feels,
to his very existence.
Zone of the greatest evils of gam
bling is the way in which it breaks
down the moral fabric. A young man
starts out in life with sound mental
faculties, good moral INSTINCTS, and
excellent religious training, He takes
to gambling, and, little by little, every
moral question presents itself to his
mind in a perverted shape. For ex-
ample, well known citizen of Chi
cago Washington Hesing, once said,
mayor of that city: Let the gam
bling house have the same liberty as
the grocery store. Let it be equally
open; let it be known as gambling
house. I would put a high license
upon gambling, but if were elected
mayor, there would be gambling
houses in Chicago as open and as pub
lie as the grocery store Such is the
distorted moral view taken by an
otherwise intelligent man. Then gam
bling, when adopted as a profession,
or when indu1ged in frequently, pro-
duces a certain
HARDNESS OF HEART.
s'Hugh Price Hughes, one of the great
est thinkers of modern England has
said: Gambling not only ruins
| mans fortunes, but it brings about
certain peculiar coldness of heart, an
extreme of selfishness and a meanness
of spirit. 1t all amounts, then, to-
this, that the gambler has no SYM
pathy with the gospel, or with the
spirit of charity and truth. To say of
a man that he is a professional gam
bier is to @arouse a feeling of pity,
not unmixed with loathing, for the
man so named.
Look, again, at the catastrophes of
gambling. Come with me to the de-
| faulter's CELL That young man so
wretched, heart broken, and forsaken,
started perhaps a few months ago,
| from his fathers home. Perhaps he
secured a position in bankers estab-
lishment He was leading an exem-
plary life as single man, or, maybe,
he had recently married, and was be-
| ginning, with devoted wife and pre-
! cious babe, a home for himself, to-
gether with all the sacred joys that
| home implies. But he took to gam
| bling. 1t is the old, old story, like the
old story Of woman's sin. And there
| he is at last in the cell, an honest boy
at heart-I must do him justice there,
but, nevertheless, a defaulter, con-
fessed violator of the law, a criminal.
'Come with me to the gamblers
home. V ere is the father? Rarely
at home, except sometimes in the
morning. He works at night-not in
the respectable, arduous toll of the
printer, or the railroad man, but in
beguiling hisSvictin1s, in seeking whom
he may defraud. There is in this
home none of that holy affection be-
tween the father and his children, be-
tween the husband and his wife, that
| exists elsewhere. How could there be,
when the father is engaged in such
soul-destroying occupation? Or, let us
go to the gamblers den. There are
such places in our city, I know that
full well, yet 1 never was in one of
them. In popular parlance, it is
A GAMBLERS HE'LL,
and the word is we'll and instructive1y
applied. The nerve destroying, soul
| annihilating traffic that goes on here
during the long hours of the night
results but too frequently in the she'd
ding OF human blood. Sometimes, as
recently in Milwaukee, the evil be-
comes too great The clergy combine
to fight against it, and then they fire.
| quently meet, instead of encourage
! ment, nothing but sneers from the
| public, criticism from the police, and
! obstruction from an unwilling mayor.
! What should all this teach you? It
should teach you to avoid gambling in
| every form. You who say I'll bet
you at the slightest provocation. You
boys who play marbles for keeps. You
ladies who indulge constantly in pro-
| gressive euchre. The other day was
| riding down town in a street car.
| Two ladies were seated opposite to me,
/ each wAQ RING piOpod fo hap 5rocc tho