The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-04-06

around-but in gilded parlors and amid
gorgeous surroundings. This sin works |
ruin, first, by providing an unhealthiul
stimulant. Excitement is pleasureable.
Under every sky and in every age, men
have sought it. We must at times have
excitement. A thousand voices in Our
nature demand it. 1t is right. 1t is
healthful. 1t is inspiring. 1t is a de-
sire God-given. But anything that
first gratifes this appetite and hurls it
back in terrific reaction, is deplorable
and wicked Look out for the agita-
ton that, like rough musician, in
bringing out the tune plays so hard he
breaks down the instrument! God
never made man strong enough to
endure the wear and tear of gambling
eXcitements.
A young man having suddenly inher-
tied large property, sits at the hazard
tables, and takes tip in dice box the
estate won by fathers lifetime's sweat,
and shakes it and tosses it away. In
temperance soon stigmatizes its victim,
kicking him out, a shaving fool, into
the ditch, or sending him, with the
drunkard's hiccough, staggering up
the street where his family lives But
gambling does not in that way expose
its victims. The gambler may be eaten
up by the gamblers passion, yet you
only discover it by the greed in his
eyes, and hardness OF his features, the
nervous restlessness, the threadbare
coat and his embarrassed business.
Yet he is on the road to ruin, and no
preachers voice, or startling warning,
or wifes entreaty, can make him stay
for a moment his headlong career.
The internal spell is on him; grant
is aroused within; and though you bind
him with cables, they would part like
thread; and though you fasten him
seven times around with chains, they
would snap like rusted wire; and
though you piled up in his path heaven
high Bibles, tracts, and sermons, and
on the top should set the cross OF the
Son OF God, over them all the gambler
would leap like roe over the rocks, on
his way to perdition "Aceldama the
) Field OF Bloodp Again, this sin works
ruin by killing industry. A man used
, to reaping scores or hundreds OF dol
: lars from the gaming table will not be
: content with slow work. He will say,
What is the use OF trying to make
r these fifty dollars in my store when |
) can make five times that in half an hour
by the dice" You never knew con-
: hrmed gambler who was industrious
, The men given to this vice spend their
= time, not actively employed in the
/ game, in idleness, or intoXication, or
sleep, or in corrupting new victims.
This sin has dulled the carpenters saw
\ and cut the band of the factory wheel
= sunk the cargo, broken the teeth OF the
4 farmers harrow, and sent a strange
1 lightning to shatter the battery of the
: philosopher. The very first idea in
n gaming is at war with all the indus
d tries of society.
/, furthermore this sin is the source o.
S dishonesty. The game OF hazard itsel
S is often cheat How many tricks ano
!. deceptions in the dealing of the cards
|, The opponents hand is ofttimes fount
:, out by fraud Cards are marked so tina
}, they may be designated from the back
t. Expert gamblers have their accom-
y plices, and one wink may decide thu
= game The dice have been found load
: ed with platina so that doubles COM
J. I'D every time. These dice are intro
1t duced by the gamblers unobserved b,
of the honest men who have come into tn
e play and this accounts for the fact tha
n ninety-nine out of hundred who gam
is Bile. however wealthy when they began
at the end are found to be poor, miser
e able, haggard wretches, that would no
!. now be allowed to sit on the DOORSTEP
r, of the house they once owned.
e In a gaming house in San Francisco
Il a Young man having just come from tn
l. mines, deposited large sum upon tn
lie ace, and won $4,000. But the It'd
d turns. Intense anxiety comes upon tn
S, countenances of all. Slowly the card
IS went forth. Every eye is fixed. Not
le sound is heard until the ace is reveale
,r favorable to the bank. There are shout
& of "Foul! Foulp but the keepers a
Is the tables produce their pistols, and tn
IN uproar is sienccd, and the bank ha
won sos, 5000. Do you call this gam
If OF chance? There is no chance abou
ut it.
lie Notice also the effect of this Grim
y upon domestic happiness. 1t has ser
% its ruthless ploughshare through hun
lie dreds of families, until the wife sat i
id rags, and the daughters were dis
S. praced, and the sons grew up to tn
a. same infamous practices, or took
te short cut to destruction across the muI
L. derer's scaffold. Home has lost a
or charms for the gambler. How ttm
L. are the children's caresses and wife
lie devotion to the gambler! How drearil
k. the fire burns on the domestic heartl
)" There must be louder laughter, an
)" something to win, and something
IS, lose; an excitement to drive the heal
lie faster, flip the blood, and fire th
Or imagination. No home, however brigh
ID can keep back the gamester. The swe'
call OF love bounds back from his iro
ut SOUL and all endearments are cor
es sumed in the fire OF his passion. TIL
OF family Bible will go after all othc
"a treasures are lost, and if his crown
I'll Heaven were put into his hand i
would cry: Here goes; one moi
v game, my boys. On this one throw
II stake my crown OF Heaven.
ly A young man in London, on comiu
IL of age, received fortune of one hui
in dred and twenty thousand dollars, an
BIS through gambling in three years W;
RS thrown on his mother for support. A
y, only son went to New Orleans. He W;
n rich, intellectual and elegant in maj
cs ners. His parents gave him, on his d.
IS. parture from home, their last blessing
nd The sharpcrs got hold Of him. The
at hattered him. They lurcd him to II
in gaming-table and let him win almo
n every time for a good while, and pate
o. him on the back and said: "First-ra
C player" But fully in their grasp, the