Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-16
GRAND FORKS MINISTER'S
TACKLE GANBIINGOUEST

GRAND FORKS MINISTER'S
TACKLE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Grand Forks, n. D., July 15.-}
Pastors of three churches in Grand |
Forks have started a crusade against
gambling. Rev. F. E. r. Miller of
the First Baptist church, Rev. w. W.
Moore, of the NJ. E. church, and Rev.
w. H. Mathews, of the Presbyterian
church, are the men who have COM
menced the warfare. The campaign
is especially directed against slot ma
chimes, which are denounced as res
cruiting places for gambling dens.
Pool rooms where wagers are allowed
on the games, are also condemned
as leading youths to the worse forms
of the gambling vice.
In their sermons on Sunday even
ing the ministers had gambling for
their subjects. In his sermon Rev.
w. H. Matthews. of the Presbyterian
church, said in part: ]
Worse than Drunkenness.
Gambling is one of the worst Of
the evils. 1t belongs along with
drunkenness and adultery. It Is worse
than either A man will become a
greater moral wreck through gamb-
ling than through the practice of
either of the other great evils It
is almost impossible to do anything
with the gambler. The drunkard, in
his sober moments, loves his family.
| The gambler will sacrifice family and
everything else to crafty his pas
sion. The lieentiate may be very
honorable as business man The
gambler cannot be trusted in any
transactions.
| Hypnotized By Satan.
'sGod pity the gambler. He is al
ready in the clutches of the fiends of
he'll. The snake has charmed him
so that he is rooted to the spot. He
is hyponotized by Satan. At his COM
mand he goes from the gaming tab
er. Under his directions he falsifies
the accounts which are in his keep
ing. Drawn by the devil, he leaves
the glowing freside Of love and goes
out to waste his substance in what
is worse than riotieHs living. He
deceives the companion he has piedg
| cd fn oh;
he is in duty bound to nurture an6
passes out into the darkness, perhaps
telling his sympathetic wife thai
business at the Office makes his latt
, hours necessary.
:, What shall be the end? Ruin
Nothing but ruin 1t may be little
unfair to Monte Carlo for the gaid,
!, to take the visitor to the casino AMI
say here is the gambling he'll Of tn,
world; daily men and women ar,
ruined and duped at the tables. TIL,
most selected spot for suicide is JUS
to your left, under the palm trees
: although you will find no bodie
there now. in the morning plenty vii
be carried away. Monte Carlo ha
its real attractions in the beautiful
:, scenery about the place, and sach
: description given in a sing song wa
by the guide does scant justice t
the great God who has here provide
in such magnificent abundance tn
beauties of nature.
Yet man has taken this beaatifu
I stage Of natures setting with ii
= constantly shifting scene in sea an
I sky and has transformed it into
g grave yard of fidelity. faith, hops
e and love through greed. These Bea,
a les provided by the good God al
& simply used as allurememts, to whic
& are added all others that the dew
III can devise, to lead man estray.
y, Many of these men and wome
y who spend their all at the ganin
tables did not begin In Monte Carl,
r., They began as many of our boya a,
beginning keday-at the pool tab
IS and at the slot machine. The sE
n, machine is daily making recruits ft
e The Monte Carlos of our land. W
lie are not divided on the question
the right and wrong of this contri
ance. Everywhere people are recO,
s MIXING the evil Of the slot naohfn