Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-01-29

legislatures have again and again sane
toned the mighty evil by passing laws
in defense of race tracks, and many
young men have lost all their wages at
such go called meetings. F." Every man
who voted for such infamous bills has
on his hands and forehead the blood of
these souls
Eternal Catastrophe.
But in this connection some young
converts say to me: Is it right to play
cards? Is there any harm in game OF
whist or euchre?" Well, know good
men who play whist and euchre and
other styles of games without any
wagers. l had friend who played
cards with his wife and children, and
then at the close said, Come, now, let
us have prayers. " l will not judge 9TH
er mems consciences. but tell you that
cards are in my mind so associated with
the temporal and spiritual ruin of splen-
did young men that would as soon
say to my family, Come, let US have a
game of cards. as ! would 60 into q
menagerie and say, Come, let US have
q game of rattlesnakes' Or into GENE
terry and, sitting down by marble
slab, say to the gravediggers, Come,
let us have a game at skulls. " Conscien-
tious young ladies are silently saying,
"Do you think card playing will do US
any harm?" Perhaps not, but how will
you feel if in the great day of eternity,
when we are asked to give an account
of our influence, some man should say,
II was introduced to games of chance
in the year 1898, at your house, and L
went on from that sport to something
more exciting and went Oh down until
lost my business and lost my morals
and lost my soul, and these chains that
you see on my wrists and feet are the
chains of q gamcster's doom, and ain
OH my way to gamblers hell" Hon
ey at the start, eternal catastrophe at
the last.
Stock gambling comes into the same
catalogue. 1t must lie very exhilarating
to 60 into the stock market and, dcpos-
iting small SUM Of money, run the
chance of taking out fortune. Many
men are doing an honest and safe Dusi-
ness in the stock market, aud you are
an ignoramus if you do not know that
it is just as legitimate TO DIAL in stocks
as it is to deal in coffee or sugar or
flour But nearly all the outsiders who
90 there on q financial excursion lose
all The old spiders eat up the unsus-
pecting flies had friend who put
his hand on his hip pocket and said in
substance, ~ have there the value Of
$3.50, 600. His home is today penni-
less What was the matter: Stock gam
bling. Of the vast majority who are
victimized you hear not one word. One
great stock firm goes down, and whole
columns of newspapers discuss their
fraud or their disaster, and We arc pre-
sented with their features and their bi-
ography But where one such famous
firm sinks 500 unknown men sink with
them. The great steamer goes down.
and all the little boats are swallowed
in the same engulfment.
Gambling is gambling, whether in
stocks or breadstulfs or dice or race
horse betting EXhilaration at the start,
but q raving brain and a shattered nerv-
Gus system and sacrificed property
hnd destroyed soul at the last. Young
men, buy no lottery tickets, purchase
no prize packages, bet on no baseball
games or yacht racing, have no faith IN
luck, answer no mysterious circulars
proposing great income for small invest
ment. Drive away the buzzards that
hover around our hotels trying to entrap
strangers. Go out and make an honest
living Have God on your side and be a
candidate for heaven. Remember all the
paths of sin are banked with flowers at
the start, and there are plenty of help
full hands to fetch the gay charger to
your door and hold the stirrup while
you mount. But farther on the horse
plunges to the bit in slough ineXtrica-
BILE.
The Truth Of God.
/. The best honey is not like that which
Jonathan took on the end of the rod AZ d
brought to his lips, but that which God
puts on the banqueting table of mercy,
at which we are all invited to sit. l
was reading of boy among the noun
tains of Switzerland ascending dan
gerous place with his father and the
guides. The boy stopped on the edge OF
the cliff and said, 'There is flower /
mean to get. Come away from
there" said the father. "You will fall
off, "No, said he. II must get that
beautiful flower And the guides
rushed toward him to pull him back,
when just as they heard him say, 81
almost have it," he fell 1000 feet.
Birds of prey were seen few days after
circling through the air and lowering
gradually to the place where the corpse
lay. Why seek flowers off the edge ~