The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-04-11
A FOTcillS DcnunClaliOl Of The
Craze By Rev. Kilcaid.
CURSE Of NINETEENTH CENTURY
More Universal To-Day Than Ever Before
No Equivalent TO The General Gooi The
Stock Exchange.
(From Mondays Daily

Last evening al the Central Union
church Rev. Kincaid spoke upon THE
Gambling Mania" taking his text from
Matt. 27:35: And they crucihed him,
and parted his garments, casting lots.
When one pictures the scene of
body of soldiers at the foot Of the
Cross casting lots for the garments OF
the dying Christ with the death sweat
upon His brow, the gambling passion
standing forth while the worlds great
est tragedy is being enacted, the ter
rible significance of those few words
from Matthew Is realized.
Nothing can soften the heart OF the
gambler He is impervious. His sor-
did mind cannot think Of exalted
things. Never was there a more
tragic illustration of the gamblers
characteristics than that scene around
the Cross.
Many think that gambling on a large
scale has passed away. But the pas
sion for gaming is more universal to-
day than It was even during the eXcit-
ing days Of the eighteenth century,
which is famous for its gigantic gamb-
ling frauds. To-day both classes. the
rich and the poor, are struggling in
the mad rush for wealth.
Men are invited TO enter into specu-
lation daily by the promises Of large
dividends and our jails are full of
young men who took their first wrong
step in order that they might realize on
those promises.
OF all the forms Of vice and sin that
Ispring from the use of money, gamb-
ling is the worst. 1t Is, as Spencer
says, a kind OF act by which pleasure
lis obtained at the direct cost of an
Others pain. and affords no equivalent
to the general good
TO have money We ought TO work
for it. \ desire for money is honor
liable. providing our conception and use
Iof it are honorable 1t Is not money,
but the love of money that is the
IroOt of all evil. To obtain money
flor which there Is no equivalent given
lis dishOnOrable. The gambler renders
Inc equivalent to the general good. He
takes from anotheT'S purse and puts
Into his own what he has obtained by
luck, not work. He commits felony
upon the purse of the common society.
How many have been ruined by their
effort: to obtain something for
nothing. the curse of the nineteenth
century. Behind every gambler in the
truest sense stands the cross with the
bleeding corpse upon it. Gambling Is
nothing more than theft
+, There are many forms OF gambling
There are the games OF chance which
lare carried on in gilded palaces. 1t
Is best for young man to lose when
he enters these places for the first
time. For gambling is the most in
sensatc of all the vices, and calls into
play all the lowest passions.
Then again there IS the EXchang"
Now, an Exchange Is 4 necessary in
IstitutiOn in which the nerves Of busi'
ness may find a center. There are
+ good and Christian men who are mem
bers Of the Exchange If a man goes
down to the stock market will
$500 and buys its equivalent in stocks
his action Is all right. But II with the
: $500 he buys $50, 900 or 100000 in mar
! gins or in options, his ability to pa!
for them depending on a rise in value
1t is gambling.
o. Why do brokers 70 about Offering
shares of stock which shall pay largo
$ dividends according to their repTesen
tations? Their representations ar,
imply ungarnished fraud and robbery
Gambling unsettles the mind. ~
young man who once feels the gamb
ling passion Is afterward fit for an,
=. thing else Gambling takes root in III
i pleasure Of possession and then de
: stroys that pleasure. The gambler be
u comes morally calloused, his distinc
u lions between right and wrong ar
v oblitCTated. II a man lives he shOu.
u live as a man. We are all to CIV
e an account some day of what We hay
g done. Besides, the gambling and spt
II cuatlng Il a foolish act. Remembc
- young man, II any are on the Drln
= OF the prccIpIce, that you are about
p do not only an immoral and CORFU
r thing, but one that IL foolish also,
u When you are getting your "stralgl
+. tips from mon who probably kno
'' no moro about It than you do, an
whose only intention Is 10 fleece 80
remember that the straight zip
genuine ana Trustworthy comes fro
the Book ~ books what shall
~, profit a man II he gain the whole wpr
~ land laHg hIE own z0ul ~