The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-12-26


well being, the church, suffers likewise.
and in a corresponding degree. I shall
not dwell upon this For it will pass I'M
challenged. Many people who used to
worship the Lord on his holy day now stay
away because their houses are filled with
questionable characters, whom they call
boarders, and they must stay by their
possessions. If these did not take what
belonged to the house keeper they might
use such an opportunity to remove their
own effects to prevent paying an overdue
board bill. 1t is not hard to believe that
when the young men spend Sabbath to dis
cuss the prospects for the next days races,
and the families are at home cooking for,
and Watching after, gamblers, and the
"drummerS" are securing the community
to inform everybody about their secret
pulp on the races of the next day, and
taking bets from men, women and children
on commission-I say when all these things
and many more fill up the entire Sabbath,
it is not hard to believe that the churches
md righteousness suffer. 1t will be strange
if somebody else does not suffer before it is
dana
The greatest guardian of our welfare is
She Home, and strange as it may seem,
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children get toratber ot n,ov Time and d:s-
c,.s tbt;r Gains ~, losses in the hets vyhich
tro, hove ssut to ti,n race tr,cl. Tn.t
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needs nrpsont,tion The neace If Families
h,s bo,n destroved bnsh,rd. and wives
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lains have fawned AID lied their way into
our homes have used the scrpents power o.
charm. have stung and DESTROYED, and then
have slid their Shiny coils into other fields,
leaving what is worse than many delths
Of such instances in this little town. and no
doubt you know of more; but an allusion
becomes personal, where everybody 'ynows
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everybody, and have no desire to intensity
the suffering of these unfortunate but in
fatuated victims
The ancients told of a tabled reptile
which was the king of serpents, and wore
on its head crown. 1t was called the
bosilisk. whose breath, teeth, stinr. and
eyeballs all are death. To nothing | can
recall among the conceptions OF men unin-
spired, can these gamblers be so appro-
priatey likened as this king of ancient de
stroyers. | grow sick at heart and shudder
as I think of what march of death and
sorrow is daily proceeding through this
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