The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-16
WHY GAMBLING IS WRONG
REV. DIR. DAVID II. GREER IN BATTELL CHAPEL YESTERDAY.

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 Human History Teaches Immutnbi
 Laws of God Like Another Bibie-O Ob
 servance of Sabbath or Day Corres
 Ancient Hebrew Law.
 The sermon in Battell chapel yester- | day morning was by the Rev. pr. Da- vid H. Greer of New York city Dr. | Greer also addressed the students in
 the evening in Dwight hall. The morn- | ing sermon was a strong address, and | was listened to with marked attention | by the students. pr. Greer impressed upon them that much of the wisdom
 of the Scriptures and many of the laws
 of God, so-called because they are re-
 garded as law when embodied in the Scriptures, may be traced through hu-
 man history in well defined form. That certain causes produce certain results
 is susceptible of proof in ethics as well as in the exact sciences. Therefore hu-
 man life and it's history is in reality another kind of Bible through which
 Gods memorable truths may be traced
 Dr. Greer said by way of illustration
 that to prove gambling to be wrong might be a difficult undertaking if the question is looked at theoretically and academically. Indeed. arguments might be made of for gambling.
 But gambling is wrong say most of us although it may be difficult to prove it. We know that gambling is wrong looking at it historically and in the light of past human experience for we see it's effects on character and life, personal, social commercial, and na- tional is bad. Says a young man or woman, or an older person to us to-day that he or she sees no harm in the gambling game or in the sport that gives new sensations so long as the player can afford it. Such an one sees no further than a foot before his or her face, or across a tatble's breadth, or through the length of a nights amusement. But go further back and see it in the larger range of human per- spective see and judge it there as passion subtle, insd!ous. strong. mas tering the strongest characters, becom- ing more intense, more imperious. and more consuming with every indulgence of it, consuming heart and soul body and conscience: see it there and judge it. Its pathway is strewn with ruins mental, moral, sDiritual strewn with disgrace despair, insanity, suicide, brightest hopes blasted, fairest face ex- tinguished, highest types of character destroyed and noblest forms of life wrecked. A grim and ghastly sight is a look at the work of the gamblers sport. Talk about the horrors of war to- day-but worse than any carnage ever seen on battle field is the wreck and desolation of hope and character wrought by gambling. Do not look at the matter theoretically but in the larger vision of past human experience and see it there condemned and damned as by law of God not written on the sky or on the sky revealed but on earth through human life revealed.
 T have said to you, young men cf Yale, that human history is another kind of Bible in which God has given man deep teachings of the working out of immutable laws. The question of Sunday observance in which wa are now greatly interested in New York ,ity may we'll be looked at in the light | of that human experience as well SIS by | the teaching of the decalogue In a | historical sense Sunday is not recent institution and of human manufacture. It is older than America, older than the Anglo Saxon civilization. more ancient | han the Hebrew law, and reaches fur | her back than to peoples more ancient | han the Hebrew. The fourth com nandment in the decalogue simpiy sets t forth in the Hebraic law. It some hing there shown to be good for man, which he needs as a help to fit him up living as he does in that which tends to drag him down. may imply say to you that Sunday is that lay which stands for the highest and test, and coming to us through that list orical channel it comes as law of tod, and it does so come to us through esus, the Son of Man. revealing it to IS as Gods law Out of a large and ast experience do Gods eternal laws ome to us through the Son of Man evealed."
 In the evening Dr. Greer made refer nee to the Sunday saloon question in lew York He remarked that the pro- ibitive method seemed folly. The bet er plan would be to find a substitute. |