Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-07-01

/ NOUI< D6 tCLIe Will the pres
ent statistics if we could find any one
! able enough at figures to tabulate
| them 1t is all the same spirit of gam
| Bling whether the instruments are
! cards or the clicking chips or the turn
! ing wheel or the bids Of the Stock EX-
| change, where people sell what they
| never owned and fail because they can.
not get paid for it. \ prominent bank.
er tells NE that he thinks $4,000 people
| were financially Frustrated by the re-
cent insanities in Wall street. Here
and there case is reported, but the
vast majority suffer in silence. The
| children are brought home from school;
the wardrobe will be denied replenish-
ment; the table will have scant supply;
wild generosity will be turned into
grim want. Forty years from now will
be felt the disaster Of last months
black Thursday.
But, While you are hotly indignant
against the crime, how do you feel
about those who were feeced and
slain? They did not know that their
small boat was SO near the maelstrom.
Some of them were born with a tend
! ency to recklessness and experiment
and hazard. They inherited a DISPOSE
ton to tempt chance. Do not heap on
them additional discoura gements. Do
not deride their losses. Help them to
start again. Show them that there are
more fortunes yet to be gained than
have yet been gathered and that with
God for their friend they will be pro-
yided for here, and through the Saw
iour's mercy they may reign forever in
the land where there are no losses and
infinite gains While you may redden
in the face at the fact that gambling
is the disgraceful mother Of multi
tudinOus crimes, of envies, jealousies,
revengeS, quarrels, cruelties, false
hoods, forgerieS, suicides, murders and
despair, be careful what you say to the
victim Of the vice and what you do
He needs more sympathy than the man
who came UP from inebriety and de-
bauch and assassination, for many
such repent and are saved, but confirm
ed gamblers hardly ever reform. Dur
ing the course of prolonged ministry
| have seen thousands redeemed, many
Of them who were clear gone in sin, by
Almighty grace rescued. In all parts
Of this land and in some parts of other
lands have seen those who We're given
up as incorrigible and lost recovered
for God and heaven, but how many
confirmed gamblers have 1 seen con-
verified from their evil ways? a thou
sand? No. Five numbered? No. Eff
ty? No. Two? No. One? No.
read in a book Of one such rescued.
have no doubt there have been other
cases, but 10 evil does its work so
thoroughly and eternally as gambling.
Such almost hopelessness of refOrma-
ton ought to call forth from you deeper
sympathy than you feel for any other
unfortunate. Pity, by all means, for
those who, shipWrecked and bruised ,
among the timbers, have nevertheless |
climbed up to the fisherman's cabin |
and found warmth and shelter, but |
more pity for those who never reach |
shore, but are dashed to death. in the |
breakers. Be angry at the sin, but |
sympathize with it's victims.
An Evil to BE Avoided.
There is another sin that we are of |
tentimes called to be angry with, and |
that is fraud. We all like honesty, and /
when it is sacrificed we are vehement |
in denUpciatiOn. We hope that the de- |
tectives will soon come upon the track |
Of the absconding bank official, Of the |
burglar who blew up the safe, of the |
clerk who sIillfuIly changed the figures
in the account book, Of the falsifier who |
secured the lean on valueless property,
Of the agent who because of his per-
centage wrOnGfully admits q man to
the benefit of 4 life insurance policy
when his heart is ready to stop and
who comes from an ancestry character
iStically short lived. One act of fraud
told of in big headlines in the morning
papers rightfully aroUses the nations
wrath. 1t is the interest of every good
man and good woman who reads of the
crime to have it exposed and punished.
Let it so unscathed. and you put pre-
MUM on fraud, you depress public
morals, you induce those who are on
the fence between right and wrong to
get down on the wrong side, and you
put the business of the world on a
down grade. The cOnstabulary and
penitentiary must do their work But
while the merciless and the goddess
cry, Good for him-I am glad he is
within the prison dOOrSr be it your
work to find out if that man is worth
saving and what were the causes of his
moral overthrow. Perhaps he started
in business life under a tricky firm,
who gave him wrong notions Of bust
ness integrity; perhaps there was a
combination Of circumstances almost
unparalleled for temptation, perhaps
there were alleviations, perhaps he was
born wrong and never got over it, per-
haps he did not realize what he was
doing, and if you are merciful man
you will think Of othef perhapses
which, though they will not excuse,