Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-06-22
THE GAMBLING EVIL.
ne Gfv~s some Account OF the Ftpsn-
ctal Rain OF other DsSs-Neney
q Golden breasted
Bird.
tcopyrisht. 1901 BY Louis Kiopseh. n. VI
Washington. June ,.

EAlkDS AuC SRANlA VI Win ~l'1NNAAAetA
and gives some account of the fnan-
cial ruin OF other days; Proverbs 2S-5;
Riches certainly make themselves
wings; they fy away as an eagle 4
toward heaven"
Money is a golden-brcasted bird f.
with silver beak- IL alights on the /,
office desk or on the parlOr center /
table. Men and women stand and /
admire IL. They do not notice that /
il has wings larger than a ravens. !
larger than flamingo's. larger than
an eagles One wave of the hand
Of misfortune and it spreads its
beautiful Plumage and is gone-"as
an eagle toward heaven" my text
SAYS. though sometimes l think 1t
goes in the other direction
wha; a veriheation we have had
Of the flying capacity of riches ia
Wall street. And Wall street Is one
of the longest streets in the world.
IL does not begin at the foot Of
Trinity church, New York. and end
al the East river, as many suppose
IL reaches through oil our Ameri-
can cities and across the sea. En-
couraged by the revival Of trade and
by the fact that Wall street disRS-
tiers Of other years were so FAR back
as 90 be forgotten. spectators run
mp the stocks from point 10 point
until innocent people on the outside
suppose that the stocks would al
| ways continue TO ascend. They
gather in from all parts OF the coun-
/ try Large sums Of money arc
taken into Wall street and small
sums OF money. The crash comes.
thank God, i'm time 20 warn of n
| great many who were on their way
thither. for the sadness OF iise thing
is that great many OF the young
men OF our cities who save n little
money for The purpose OF starting
themselves in business. and who
have $500 or 81 900 or $4,000 or Sio.-
600 20 into Wall street and lose all.
And If there ever was a time for the
pulpit TO speak out in regard TO GER
tain kinds OF nefarious enterprises
now is the time.
Stocks rose and fell. and now they
begin 10 rise again. and they viii
fall again until thousands Of young
men will be ruined unless the print
ing press and the pulpit give en-
phatic utterance. Nv counsel is Il
countrymen. 20 far as they ma,
hear OF this discourse. II they have
surplus 10 invest il in first mort
, | cages and in moneyed institution
= which. though paying comparative
! | IN small interest. are sound and SAT
= beyond dispute. and TO stand clea
OF the Wall street vortex, where -
4 many have been swamped and swal
/ lowed. What a compliment il is q
- the healthy condition OF our eountr
y that these recent disasters have i
;. nowise depressed tradei than
p | God that Wall streets capacity :
e blast this country has gone forever
J. First of all, Wall street stands as
n type IN this country for tried integrit
u and the most outrageous villain.
Farmers who have only a few hundre
IL dollars worth Of produce 60 pct on n
e market have but little 10 test the
character, but put a man into a
seven times heated furnace OF Wa
street excitement and he either com,
out O Shadrach. with hair unsinged,
p he Ia burned into a black moral cince
No halfway work about II. II l wan
ed 90 find integrity bombprOof,
would 20 among the bankers and me
d chants Of Wall street: yet becau
there have been such villainies enact,
IL there at different times some N,
re have supposed that u is a great fina
IA cial debauchery. and they hardly da
n 60 near the street or walk up or dow
g Il unless they have buttOned up the
20 last pocket and had their lives inSuE
70 or reHgiously crossed themselves. Y
n, II YOU start at either end of the sire
IA. and read the business signs you W
n find the names Of more men Of
is tegrity and Christian benevolence tn
n YOU can find ia the same space In a
in street Of any of our cities When
CIV Christian commission and the SAINT a
commission wanted money TO Sc
de medicine and bandages 10 the wouE
no ed. when breadstuffs were wanted
cir furnishing Ireland. when colleges We
ng | 10 De endowed and churches we're 10
be supported and missionary sOciet
.ge ! were 10 be equipped for their work
1t sepding the Gospel al around I
old ! world. the first street TO respond
in been Wall street. and the largest
.lly sponses ia All the land have come FIR
la Wall street.
md But while that street is type
OK tried integrity on one hand il is ala
iso type of unbounded swindle on
other. There are the spiders that "
for innocent flies. There are the Gro
, csles that crawl up through the sii
ans TO cranch the calf There are
Ing enacondss. with lifted loop, ready
1ch crush the unwary. There are hnan'
ere wreckers. who stand on the be
ON praying for a Caribbean whirl~in'