The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-10
A Porcible Denlnciation Of the
Craze By Rev. Kincaid.
CURSE OF NINETEENTH CENTURY
More Universal Today Than Ever Before.
No Equivalent to the General Good The
Stock Exchange.

Last evening at the Central Union
church Rev. Kincaid spoke upon The
Gambling Mania taking his text from
Matt 27: 35: And they crucified him,
and parted his garments, casting lots
When opa pictures the scene of
body of sola.ers 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
spring from the use of money, gamb
ling is the worst 1t is, as Spencer
says q kind of act by which pleasure
is 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. A desire for money is honor
able, providing our conception and use
of it are honorable. 1t is not money,
but the love OF money that is the
root of all evil. To obtain money
for which there is no equivalent given
is dishonorable. The gambler renders
no equivalent to the general good. He
takes from another's purse and puts
into his own what he has obtained by
luck, not work. He commits a felony
upon the purse of the common society.
How many have been ruined by their
efforts 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
are carried on in gilded palaces. 1t
is best for a young man to lose when
he enters these places for the first
time For gambling is the most in
sensate of all the vices, and calls into
play all the lowest passions.
Then again there Is the Exchange.
Now, an Exchange is a necessary in
stitution in which the nerves Of bust
ness may find center. There are
good and Christian men who are mem
bers of the Exchange. If a man goes
down to the stock market with
$500 and buys its equivalent in stocks,
his action is all right. But if with the
$500 he buys $4,000 or $4,000 in mar
gins or in options, his ability to pay
for them depending on rise in value,
it is gambling.
Why do brokers go about offering
shares Of stock which shall pay large