The Forrest City times., 1900-04-20
The Last From Sallie Anu.

wish to mention card playing one more tine, as do not think "A Gard Plsyerr quite understands me. and as this Is positively my last time 1 hope the editor will be patient and liberal.
 Ism not accusing the innocent paste. boards, but those who use them.
 Ihave played one game of authors in my fife, and know nothing at all about crokinoIe and do not think they are Giits from heaven. do not play any games atsIl. You seem to think the way to keep boys from gambling is to teach them that t is wrong and not by keeping them from card playing.
 think the temperance people might learn something from your ideas. Let them stop fighting the saloon. but put them in every town, and teach the boys that it is no harm to take . social drink occasionally; and lot them go into the saloons as often as they like, but impress firmly upon their minds that it Is wrong to get drunk and that drunkards are cast out of good society. Teach them that it is not wrong ts play cards if they do not bet on them. Now how do you think that would work!
 Do you think there ever was . drunk. ard who got drunk the first time he tasted liquor, or . gambler who bet on the first game of cards he ever played!
 You say that gamblers would be 60 anyway. If they did not know cards they would shoot craps.
 I contend that gamblers, like drunkards are not born. but are made and cultiva- ted. DrunkaIds first learn to take the social glass. They have no craving ap- petite for liquor until they drink it for awhile. The boy who learns to play cards at the card party, at home or any where else, has not thought of gambling, because he knows he is incompetent; but wait until he finds he can play more successful game than any of his friends :; then he is tempted for the first to bet on his skill as card player.
 I don't think there ever was . boy wbo had an honest desire to be drunkard Or . gambler, but circumstances and asso- ciates made them so before they knew 1t. It Is alright and proper to teach them that it is very wrong to gamble and get drunk, but that is not enough. The in1usnces of such things must be kept rom then. Put no cause of stumbling in the boy 's way.
 Every boys mother has taught him that drunkenness and gambling is wrong and hs will believe his mother Is right l; and yet the temptation of these too evils that he meets from day to day will over. throw that good mothers council.
 did not write to condemn gamblers, but those who are putting others who do not gamble in good shape for it. Cards by themselves gre innocent. but they are nearly always the instruments used by gamblers. They are the gamblers tools ; therefore are uncIean. and we should have nothing to do with them.
 What would you think of a man who claimed to be all that was good and pure, but who kept in hls house all the time . good set of burglars tools? What use would he have for them if 1t were not to do evil? What would an honest man want with instruments for blowing open safes
 Isay because cards are the tools used by gamblers we ought not to touch them. Our Savior says that we cannot serve tive masters.
 That which does no good does harm Please show me wherein is the good of playing cards.
 We are taught to avoid every APPKAR- AScE of evil. lst Thes. 5-a2.
 and emulate him. Do you suppose that he would be found at a card party if he were here on earth now? An again. if l,e were here and was stopping at your house would you have ' card party there while he was your guest? Or suppose you should receive an invitation to a card party at the home of friend would you say to him Lord 1 have an invitation to card party this evening and want you to go with me; We shall have such A nice timel"
 Never go where you cannot take Christ with you.
 Playing of any kind of game is a waste of time and is wrong. It does not benefit the player or anyone else. IL is idoiatry Read the following verses and you will find that playing, tthat is. wasting our ii'ne in pleasures that are unprottablel Is idolatry, and what shali be the end of all idolatry. and what shall be the end of all jdolalers. Exodus 3a-o, list Cor. 10 :, Rev. 2lS Ask any of the ministers in