The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1903-03-20

reaction So. there il a constant pay and
int, rplay between taxing more aad more
aud more OF the Intellectual poison with
the reaction God he,p the man, Tor the
uniertow has cot him
Nv dear friends. there i something 10
ne absolutely anpaNlng ABOUT getting ur-
der tAe rover without knowing ~ NJ that
kind OF Intellectual po,son. speak ear.
nestly because | have known and loved
gifted men who have Welded 20 it ard cone
down. The mental unrcason thar u IN.
voi et IN gambling unhlnges mems brains.
INDUCING IN gambling becomes something
that nan can hardly himself stop. You
know men never stoD doing a thing unless
A motive cor,e> whsh ls stronger than the
motive that leads them 20 10 II. The man
goes on and goes on until the impulse and
motive 20 do the thing becomes stronger
than the motive that comes in 90 stop Il.
just the moment the impulse becomes
stronger than the constrainins motive then
II Is goodbye. II Is goodbye Boys begin
hy betting on marbles or putting ~ stakes
at cards lust 70 make the game more m
teresting" Ii makes the game more inter
estipg ~ the devil Then comes the race
track The more refined the man and the
finer the intellect the more surrey the dis.
ease Nothing Is 81 ghastlv as the craving
for gambling which gets hod NJ 4 hpe.
tbered man \ few days ago 4 Young man.
a church worker told me ~ = man who
confessed 70 him that he had crept Gn-
stairs IN the dead Of winter to his little
sleeping glrl and taken away the clothing
that covered her and the shoes which she
wore. nut them under his coat and SUNK
off and nawned them Tor rum--the demon
curse. Now. with gambling the tughttul
monomanla Is still worse II there Is any
Young man here this morning who has any
suspicion that the serpent Is getting that
coil around him, then quick. quick. or YOU
L.
Quick Get out VI Il now You had bet.
ter lock Yourself IN your room and live on
bread and water You had better hold
vour hands IN the fire until the VEINS burst
than GO ON with the heud of gambling Am
too II gent! Forgetting the dignity of the
nulnt, Let the dignity OF the pulpit ~.
Go home. mothers. and look on your own
hoy'1 face and thank God that YOUR hoy
Is safe. Then pray for another whose hoy
Is gone. or whom she thinks Is gone Gods
grace u great and she has come TO her pas.
tor and spoken ot this matter.
Bv YOUR kind Indulgence ! want 10 refer
20 lust one more point 1t - sometimes
said that gambling i the product of husi.
ness speculation. | DO not believe It Spec.
ulatlon, as ITS Latin origin implies u es.
sentll1v a foresight. 1t Is an endeavOr TO
look ahead and determine values. II ls not
an apncal 20 chance. We see the same root
10 the word inspection, or the word re-.
NhtNltblt OF lnt noun SnttuldIs NUlfn u
the same Latin word Some forms of busi.
ness speculation are. of course. unfair hut
in a large business sense speculation is not
guessing IN advance hut looking in advance
aud | do not believe the two go together.
I'm new. strong countries speculation ~ al.
most ALWAYS the acCompaniment OF bust.
ne7s opportunity But IN dead countries.
such "a Snaln vas fifteen years ago. have
poticed that while business speculation -
almost dead. gambling is far more preva.
lent even than here. See the higher Eng
lish society n Queen Anne's time minis.
ters everybody gamhlod. but there was not
much business speculation. No. NV friends.
n - Idleress craving for excitement, illu.
SION, bad company. corruptlng morals.
These are the forces that lead men into
rombl ag All gambling even the least, un.
der all circumstances. is like seduction and
slavery - e,erHally unjust and ctcruallS
wrong. II Is tlking sometime for nothing
II makes every nan his neighbor's Zoe II
corrupts socIetv aud undermines the fab.
re Of the American state. II is unpotrlotc
and against the eternal Sinai II divorces
contract and It's equivalent. l. there one
here this morninr, I wonder. who wants
hi dearest friend his Young brother TO
stop gambling II so, in Gods name, let
him stop himself