Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-08-11


citement of stock gambling. and from that
they plunge into the gambling houses, as,
when men are Intoxicated, they go into
liquor saloon to get more drink. The agI-
tation that IL witnessed in the stock market
when the chair announced the word
Northwestern" or Fort Wayne" or
Rock Island" or New York Central"
and the rat, tat. tat. of the auctioneer's
hammer and the excitement OF making
CORNERS" and getting up pools, and
carrying stock, and a"brea, from eighty
to seventy, and the excitement of rushing
around in curbstone brokerage, and the
sudden cries of Buyer threel' Buyer
tent Take 'emr' "How many2" and the
making or losing of $40, 900 by one opera
tion. units man to go home. and so ne
goes up the flight of stairs, amid business
offices, to the darkly curtained, wooden
shuttered room, gayly furnished inside,
and takes his place at the roulette or the
faro table. But l cannot tell ali the pro-
cess by which men get into this evil. A
man went to New York He was Western
merchant He went into gaming
house on Park place. Before morning he
had lost all his money save Il, and he
moved around about with that dollar In his
hand, and after awhile, caught still more
powerfully under the Internal infatuation,
he came up and put down the dollar and
cried out until they heard him through the
saloon, ''One thousand miles from home,
and my last dollar on the gaming table"
Many years ago for sermonic purposes
and in company with the chief of police OF
New York | visited one of the most brilliant
gambling houses in that city. IL was
night and came up in front all
seemed dark. The blinds were down, the
door was guarded but after whispering
of the officer with the guard at the door we
were admitted into the hall, and thence into
the parlors around one table finding eight
or ten men in rlidlife, well dressed-all the
work going on in silence save the noise OF
the rafting Chips" on the gaming table
in one parlor and the revolving ball Of the
roulette table in the other parlor. Some OF
these men, we We're told. had served terms
in prison some were shipwrecked bankers
and brokers and money dealers. and some
were going their first rounds OF yice-but
all intent uI on the table. as large or small
fortunes moved mp and down before them
Oh there was something awfully solemn In
the silence-the intense gaze the sup
pressed emotions of the players. No one
looked up. They all had money In the
rapids, and ! have no doubt some saw,
as they sat there, horses and car
riages, and houses and lands,
and home and family rushing
down into the vortex. A mans life would
not have been worth IA farthing in that pres
ence had he not been accompanied 10y the
police if he had been supposed to be on a
Christian errand of observation. Some OF
these men went by private key, some went
in by careful Introduction, some werS
taken in by the patrons of the establish
ment. The officer of the law told me,
None gets in here except by police man
date or by some letter of a patron" While
We were there Young man ca ne In, put
his money down on the roulette table ana
lost; put more money down on the rouiette
table and lost; put more money down on
the roulette table and lost; thea feeling In
his pockets for more money, HIDING none,
In severe silence he turned his back upon
the scene and passed out. While we stood
there men lost their property and lost their
souls. Oh mercilesS piacei Not once In
all the history of that gaming house has
there been one word of sympathy uttered
FOR the losers at the game.
Sometimes these gift enterl rises are car
lied on in the name OF charity, ana some OF
you remember at the close OF our civil war
now many gift enterprises We're on foot,
he proceeds to go to the orphans and
Widows of the soldiers and sailors. What
lid the men who had charge of those gift
Enterprises care for the orphans ana
Widows? Why, they would have allowed
hem to freeze to death upon their steps.
have no faith in a charity which for the
,ake Of relieving present suffering opens
gaping jaw that has swallowed down so
much of the virtue and good principle OF
he community. Young man, have nothing
do with these things. They only sharpen
your appetite for games of chance. Do one
Df two things-be honest or die.
have accomplished my object IL i put
fo;I ON the lookout. II is great deal
.asier to fail than il is to get up again.
The trouble is that when men begin to go
lstray from the path of duty they are apt
TO say: There's no use of my trying to get
back. I've sacrificed my respectability, l
ant return" And they go on until they
are utterly destroyed. 1 tell you, my
friends that God this moment, by His
Holy Spirit, can change your entire nature
so that you will be a different man in
minute. Your great want-what is it2
More salary? Higher social position? No,
no. l will tell you the great want of every
man if he has not already obtained 1t.
II is the grace of God. Are there any who
have fallen victims to the sin that l have
been reprehepdinS? You are I'm n prison.
You rush against the wall of this prison
and try to get out and you fail, and you
turn around and dash against the other
wall until there is blood on tho CRATES and
blood on your soul. You will never get
out in this way. There is only one way of
getting out. There is n k,s that can uL-
lock that prison house. 1t is the key of
the house of David. 1t Is the key that
Christ wears at His girdle. II you will
allow him to put that key to the lock, the
bolt will shoot back, and the door will
swing open and you will be a free man ia
Christ Jesus. Oh, prodigal, what n buzt
ness this is for you, feeding swine, when
your father stands in the front door strain
ng his eyesight to catch the first glimpse
of your return, and the calf is as fat as it
will be- and the harps of heaven are all
strung and the feet free.
There are converted gamblers in heaven
The light of eternity flashed upon the green
baiZe of their billiard saloon. In the laver
of Gods forgiveness they washed of all
their sins. They quit trying for earthly
stakes. They tried for heaven and won it.
There stretches IA hand from heaven toward
the head of the worst offender. II Is a
hand not clinched rs if to smite, but
A., bon. lS,ts.
Other seas have IA shore and may be
fathomed but the sea of Gods love
eternity has no plummet to strike tho
bottom, and immensity no fronhound
shore to confine it. Its tides are liftou
by the heart of infinite compassion. It's
waves are the hosannas of the redeemed.
The argosies that sail ON il drop anchor
At last amid the thundering salvo Of ster-
nal victory. But alas for that man who
ats down to the final game Of life and puts
his immortal soul on the ace, while the
angels of God keep the tally board, and af-
ter kings and queens, and knaves, and
spades are "shuiiied" and cut and the
game is ended, lowering and impending
worlds discover that he has lost 1t, the faro
bank of eternal darkness ciutching down
into its wallet all the blood stained wagers.
Among all the virtues, humility, the
lowest, Is pre- eminent. 1t Is the safest,
man may be truly said to live the most
ontent in his calling who strives to live
ithin the compass of IL.
People eXaggerate so much that an eX
| aggeratiOn is finally accepted as truth
The thousand-legged bug, which frighten,
| 50 many people, hasn't to exceed fifty
| legs.
1 find the great thing in this world is
not 80 much where we stand, as in wha
| direction We are moving.
Hath any wronged thee, be bravely re
| vengcd. Slight it, and the works begun
| forgive il, and it's finished He is below
| himself that is not above an injury.
Men of the nobleSt dispositions thinl
themselves happieSt when others shar,
their happiness with them.
| When "A girl becomes engaged an,
wishes to keep il a secret, she always re
fuses To stay all night with her ''bes
! friend, knowing the secret viii be GU
] II