The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-12-14
Christ Jesus 30 what is right in ons

Christ Jesus" 30 what is right In one
direction is right IN another direction.
Aud without the prizes the horses
heetness aid behtity and strength will
never be fully. developed. If it cost
81. 900 or s., 900 or $4,000. and the re-
suit be achieved. it is cheap. But the
sin besina wherg the betting begins,
for that is gambling. or the effort to
get that for which you give no eqrivas
lent; and gambling, whether on
large scale OF . small scale,
ought to be denounced OF men
as it will be accursed of God. ~
You have won Atty cents or $1,000 as a
wager, you had better get rid OF it.
Get rid OF il right away. Give 1t to
some ore who lost in bet, or give It to
some great reformatory institution, or
if you do not like that go down to the
river and pitch it off the docks. You
can nat afford to keep it. 1t will burn
hole in your pdrse. It WILL barn
hole in your estate, and you will lose
all that, perhaps ten thousand times
nlofs-perhaps you viii lose all. Gam
bling blasts .naii of it blasts his
children. Generally both and all.
What spectacle when at Saratoga.
or at Long Branch, or at brighton
Beasb, oil 1T Sheepshead Bay, the
horses start, and in flash iifty thou
sand dollars or one hundred thousand
dollars change hands! Multitudes
ruined by losing the bet, Others worse
ruined by gaining the bet; for if man
lose in bet at horse race. he may be
discouraged and quit but II he win the
bet he is very apt to 60 straight oh to
| hell
An intimass ffisad. d iotfualist, who
in the line of his profession invests
gated this evil, tells me that there are
three different kinds of betting at
iiosss Faces, and they are about equally
leprous; by auction pools" by "fre1ce
mutuals," by what is called "bookmak-
ing"-all gambling, all bad, all rotten
with iniquity. There is one word that
needs to be written on the brow OF every
pool seller as he sits deducting his
.hrea or ave per cent; ard slyly ring
ing up" more tickets than were sold OF!
the winning horse-a word to be writ.
ten also on the brow of every book.
keeper who at extra inducement
scratches horse off Of the race, and
on the brow of every jockey who
slackens pace that. according to
agreement; arother may win. and
written over every judges stand
and written on every board OF
The Surrounding :, fences. Thai
VOID is "swindlep' Yet thotisands
bet. Lawyers bet. judges Of courts
bet Members OF the legislature bet
Members of congress bet. Professors
of religion bet Teachers and super
intendents of Sunday-schools, l an
told, bet. Ladies bet, not directly, bu
through agents. Yesterday, and
every day they bet, they gain, theJ
lose, aud this summer. Will,
the parasols swing and til,
hands clap and the huzzas deafen
there will be multitude of peopl'
cajoled, and deceived, and cheated
who will at the races 60 neck ans
neck. neck and neck to perdition. Cul
tivate the horse. by all means, driv'
him as fast rs you desire, provides
you do not injure him or endange
yourself or others; but be careful ant
do not harness the horse TO the chario
of sit DO not throw your Jewels o
7 mortality under the flying hoof. d
, hot ufidef the pretext Of improving
i the horse destroy d ninfi Do no
: have your name put down in tn
ever-increasing catalogue of thos
who are ruined for both worlds by tn
|. designations Of the American rae
: course They say THAT an honest rae
course is a straight track, and tia
: a dishonest race course is crooked
:, track-that is the parlance abroad
but tell you that every race tracl
3 surrounded by betting men and bettin
y women, and betting customs, Is
q straig track--I mean straigt
down! Christ asked in one of His Co
e pels. SIS not a man better than
Y Sheep" ! say. yes. and he is bette
d than all tie stecds that with lathere
y tanks ever shot around the ring at
e race course. That is a very poor 10
|, by which man, in order to get hors
l. to come out full length ahead I
h some other racer. so lanes his ow
= morals that he comes out q who
4. length behind In the race set befol
e him.
# Do you not realize the fact that thel
S, is mighty effort en- all sides to-da
y to get money without earning i
Ir That is the curse of all the cities; it
E. the curse of America-the effort to e.
Ie money without earning it, and ;
t, other forms of stealing are not respe
is table, they go into these gamblir
c. practices. / preach this sermon {
sr square, old-fashioned honesty. ! ha'
er said nothing against the horse; ha
a. said nothing against the turf. / ha
y said everything against their prostit
IS tion. Young men. you 60 into straigh
m forward industries and you will ha
re better live hood, and you will ha
he larger permanent success than "
r, can ever get by wager; but yor g
IN in with some of the whisky, rul
k blotched crew which see going dov
ne on the boulevards, though ] never b
d. l will risk this wager, five million
d. nothing, you will be debauched a
n. damned Cultivate the horse, OF
es him il you can afford to own hi
at test all the speed he has, if he ha
a any speed in him; but be carei
ly which way you drive. You can not
o. ways tell what direction a m
u is driving in by the way
n horses head. In my boyhood
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