The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-07-05

that the great poet lOSt 81, all ms
earnings, in short tour to see the
world. Gibboh. the author of "The
Decline and Fall of the Roman En-
pire," came to his own decline and
fall through gaming practices and
in letter in 1916 said: 81 have un-
done myself and it is to no purpose
to conceal from you my abominable
madness and folly. ! have never lost
so much in five days as / have to-
night. and | am in debt to the house
for the whole
But while you are holly indignant
AGAINST the crime. how do you feel
about those who were feeced ana
slain? They did not know that their
small boat was so near the maelStrom.
Some of them were born with tend
ency to recl<lessness and experiment
and hazard. They inherited DISPOSE
| ton to tempt chance. Do not heap
on them additional discouragements;
do not deride their losses. Help them
| to start again Show them that there
are more fortunes yet to he gained
than have yet been gathered and that
with God for their friend they will be
/
viour's mercy they may reign forever
in the land where there are no losses
and infinite gains. While you may red
den in the face at the fact that gam
bling is the disgracetul mother OF
multitudinous crimes, OF enves, ieal-
ousies. revenge, quarrels, cruelties,
falsehood.. forgeries, suicides, muir
ders and despair be careful what you
saw of the victim of the vice and what
YOU do. He needs more sympathy than
the man who came up from inebriety
and debauch and assassination, for
many such repent and are saved, but
confirmed gamblers hardly ever re-
form.
During the course ola prolonged min
istry 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
were given up as incorrigible and lost
recovered for God and Heaven, but
how many confirmed gamblers have |
seen converted from their evil ways?
A thousand? No. Five hundred? No.
Fifty? No. Two? No. One? No.
read in a book of one such rescued.
have no doubt there have been other
cases, but no evil does it's work so
thoroughly and eternally a s gambling.
Such almost hopeless of reformation
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 its victims.
One act of fraud told of in big head
lines in the morning papers rightfully
arouses the nations wrath. 1t is the
interest of every good man and goot
woman who reads of the crime to have
it exposed and punished. Let il go un
scathed, and you put premium or
fraud, you depress public morals, yol
induce those who are on the fence be
tween right and wrong to get down OF
the wrong side, and you put the bust
ness of the world on a down grade
The constabulary and penitentar!
must do their work. But while tn,
merciless and the goddess cry: Coco
for him!" 81 am glad he is within tn,
prison doors!" be it your work to flint
out il that man is worth saving ant
what were the causes of his mora
overthrow. Perhaps he started il
business life under n tricky firm, VIII
gave him wrong notions of bushes
integrity; perhaps there was comb
nation of circumstances almost un
paralleled for temptations; perhap
there were alterations; perhaps h
was born wrong and never got over it
perhaps he did not realize what he wa
; doing, and if you are a merciful ma
you will think of other perhapse
! which, though they may not excuse
: will eXtenuate. Perhaps he has a
ready repented and is washed in tn
Il blood of the Lamb, and is as sure o
{. Heaven as you are. What an opportr
nifty you have for obeying my tex
0 You were angry at the misdemanoi
= but you are hopeful for the recover
! of the recalcitrant. Blessed all prise
I reformers Blessed are those go'
ernors and presidents who are gla
: when they have a chance to pardon
Blessed the forgiying father who we
comes home the prodigal! Blesse
u the dying thief whom the Lord too
u with Him to glory, saying: This da
- shalt thou be with Me in Paradise!
There is another evil that we ougf
y to abhor, while we try to help tn
= victim, and that is infidelity
II snatches the life preserver from tn
= man ahoat and affords not so niue
. as a spar or plank as substitute.
) would eXtinguish the only light thf
II has ever been kindled for the trouble
" and the lost. Let the spirit of int
deity take hold of a neighborhoo
and in that town the marriage reli
. ton is farce and good morals gi,
: place to all styles of immorals. Let
% take possession of this earth, an
there will be no virtue left in all I'll
D. worlds circumference. All the sin
lb rahulyad In tha Tan rOrnr,o =, 4 man,