The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-10-30

'bookmaking''-all gambling, all bad.
all rotten with iniquity. There Is one
word that needs to be written on the
brow of every poolseller as he sits de-
ducting his 3 or per cent and slyly
ringing up" more tickets than were
sold on the winning horse-a word to
be written also on the brow of every
bookkeeper who at extra inducement
scratches horse off of the race and on
the brow of every jockey who's slackens
pace that, according to agreement,
another may win and written over
every Judges stand and written on
every board of the surrounding fences.
That word is 'swindle." Yet thousands
bet. Lawyers bet. Judges OF courts bet.
Members of the legislature bet. Mem
bers of congress bet. Professors of
religion bet. Teachers and superinten-
dents of Sunday Schools, am told,
bet. Ladies bet, not directly, but
through agents. Yesterday, and every
day they bet, they gain, they lose, and
this summer, W lie the parasols swing
and the hands clap and the huzzas
deafen, there will be multitude of
people cajoled and deceived and cheat
ed. who will at the races 60 neck and
neck, neck and neck to perdition.
Cultivate the horse, by all means,
drive him as fast as you desire, 9rovid-
ed you do not injure him or endalger
yourself or others, but be careful and
do not harness thehorse to the chariot
of sin. Do not throw your jewels of
morality under the flying hoof. Do
not under the preteXt Of, improving
the horse destroy man. Do not have
your name put down in the everincreas-
inc catalogue.of those who are ruined
for both worlds by the dissipation OF
the American race course. They say
that an honest race course lisa straight
track, and that a dishonest race course
is a crooked track-that is the par
lanceabroad-bu I tell you every race
track surrounded by betting men and
betting women and betting customs,
! is straight track mean straight
down. Christ asked in one Of his Cos
pels, 'Isnot a man,bester than sheep"
I say yes, and he is better than all the
steeds that with lathered fanks ever
shot around the ring at race course.
That is very poor job by which a
man in order to get a horse to come
oat full length ahead of some other
racer so lanes his own morals that he
comes out whole length behind in
the race set before him.
Do YOU not realize the fact that
there is mighty effort on all sides
today to get money without earning it?
That is the curse of all the cities; it is
the curse of America-the effort to get
money without earning it-and as
other forms of stealing are not respect
able, they 60 into these gambling
practices. ] preach this sermon on
square old fashioned honesty. I have
said nothing against the horse,
l have said nothing against the
turf, I have said everything against
their prostitution. Young men,
YOU 90 into straightforward n
industries and you will have bet
ter livelihood, and you will have larger
permanent success than you can ever
get by wager, but you get in with
some of the whisky, rum blotched
crew which see going down on the
boulevards, though I never bet, 1 will
risk this wager, S5,000,000 to nothing,
you will be debauched and damned.
Cultivate the horse, own him if you
can afford to own him, test all the
speed be has, if he have any speed in
him. but be careful which way you
drive. You cannot always tell what
direction man is driving in by the
way his horses head. In my boyhood,
we rode three miles every Sabbath
morning to the country church. We
were dra awn by two fine horses. My
father drove He knew them and
they knew him. They were friends.
Sometimes they loved to 60 rapidly,
and he did not interfere with their
happiness. He had all of US in the
wagon with him. He drove to the
country church. The fact is, that for
81 years he drove in the same direct
ion. The'roan span that speak OF was
long ago unhitched, and the driver
put up his whip in the wagon house
never again to take it down, but in
| those good old times I learned some
thin that I never forgot, that man
may admire horse and love horse
and be proud of a horse and not al
ways be willing to take the dust Of the
preceding vehicle, and yet be a Christ
ian, IN earnest Christian, a humble
| Christian, conserated Christian. use
full until the last, so that at his death
the church of God cries out as Elisha
exclaimed when Elijih went up with
gallcping horses Of tire, Ny father,
nv father, the chariots of Isreal and
| the horsemen therof.''
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