El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-20

them that sin as it were with cart
rope"
There are some iniquities that only
nibble at the heart. After lifetime of
their work, the man still stands up
right, respected and hOnOred. hese
v,-rmin have got strength enough to
gnaw through mans character. But
there are other transgressiOns that lift
themselves up to gigantic proportions,
and sezs hold of a man aud bind him
iniuuities that have such great en-
paasis of evil that he who commits
them may be said to sin as with a cart
rope. | suppose you know how they
make q great rope. The stuff out of
which it is fashioned is no. hing but tow
which you pull apart without any eX-
ertion of your fingers. This is spun
into threads, any of which you could
easily snap, but a great many of these
threads are 1nterwound-then you have
rope strong enough to bind an OK, or
hold ship in tempest. 1 speak to you
of the sin of gambling A cart rope in
strength is that sin, and yet | wish
more especially to draw your attention
to the small threads of influence out of
which that mighty iniquity is twisted.
Tnis crime is on the advance, so that
It is well not only that fathers, and
brothers, and sons, be interested in
such discussion, but that
wives and mothers, and sis
tiers, and daughters look out lest their
present home be sacrificed, or their
intended home be blasted. No man,
no woman, can stand alOof from such
subject as this and say: at has 70
practical bearing upon my Hfe:' for
there may be in a short time in your
history an experience in which you
will find that the discussion involved
three worlds-earth, heaven. he'll.
There are gambling establishments
by the thousands. There are about
five thousand five hundred professional
gamblers. Out of all the gambling es-
Establishments, how many of them do
suppose profess to be honest? Ten.
Then ten profe ssing to be honest be-
cause they are merely the aute-cham-
her to those that are acknowledged
There are tirs;-class es-
adjustments. You step little way
out OF Broadway, New York. You go
up the marble stairs You ring the
bell. The liveried servant introduces
YOU. The walls are levanded tinted
The mantels are of Vermont marble.
The pictures are "Jephthah's Daught-
err" and Dore's "Dante's and Virgil's
Frozen Region of He'll" a most ap-
propriate selection, this last, for the
place. There is the roulette table, the
finest, coStliest, most exquisite piece of
furniture in the United States. There
is the banqueting room, where, free
of charge to the guests, YOU may find
the plate, and viands, and wines, and
cigars, sumptuous beyond par llel.
Then you come to the secOnd-class
gambling establishment. To it you
are introduced by a card through some
roper i'm Having entered, you must
either gamble or fgh5. Sanded cards,
dice loaded with quicksilver, poor
drinks mixed with more poor drinks,
will soon help you to get rid of all your
money to q tune in short meter with
staccato passages. You wanted to see.
You saw The low Williams of that
place watch you as you come in. Does
not the panther, squat ip the grass,
know a calf when he sees it? Wrangle
not for your rights in that place, or
your body will be thrown bloody into
the street or dead into the river.
Then there are Others who go into
this sin through sheer desire for gain.
1t is especially so with professional
gamblers They ALWAYS keep cool.
They never drink enough to uubalauce
their Judgment. They do not see the
dice so much as they see the dol'a be-
yond the dice, aud for that they watch
as the spider in the web, looking as if
dead until the fly passes. Thousands
of young men in the hope of gain go
into these prac ices. They say: "Well,
my salary is rot enough to allow this
luxury. L don't get enough from my
store Office or shop. [ ought to have
fiuer apartments. 1 ought to have bet
ter wines. fought to have more rich
ly favored cigars. l ought to be able
] to entertain my friends more extensive
lily. | won't stand this any longer. |
can, with one brilliant stroke, make a
fortune. Now, here goes, principle or
no principle, heaven or hell. Who
cares?" When young man makes
up his mind to live beyond his income.
Satan has bought him out and out aud
it is only question of tire when TIE
goods are to be delivered. The thing
is done. You may plant in the way all
the batteries of truth and righteou s.
ness-that man is bound to go on.
This sin works very insidiously
Other sins sound the drum, and Haunt