The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-05-28

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the morning, then hurry home. Such
can't stand spiritual sermon.
At the home of a church officer lady
boasted she had made twenty dollars one
afternoon at the card table. Another
won fifty dollars worth of jewelry, yet
they were unconscious of this moral
degradation. Officers of church were
present at eucher party at which prizes
valued from ten to two hundred dollars
were offered. Some of these men dared
at the next Sabbath to pass the emblems
of the dying Saviour at the communion
of the Lords Supper!
How much better are these than the
soldiers at the foot of the cross?
To what does it lead?
Listenl A man refused to give his
wife money to gamble with-and he was
right-but she told her friends to buy at
the store what they wanted and have
them charged to her account, and she
would collect the money of them and
her husband would pay the bills and be
no wiser. Is Monte Carlo worse than
this?
A mother, the morning after a eucher
party, said to her son, "see, won that
beautiful vase at the party last night"
"Oh," SAID the boy, chats nothing
See what l made" pulling out roll of
bills. Il made this last night" No
wonder that mother was Mortified. In
her own parlor she had made gambler
of her son.
''Be not deceived, God is not Knocked,
for whatsoever man soweth that shall
he also reap"
Empires as well as families have been
brought to destruction by gambling We
may ignore the warnings of truth, but
our sanguIne hopes of prosperity will
not save us. Underneath our mont men,
tai egotism and self assurance the fire
of our lust and greed will burn until the
whole structure is brought to ashes. |
could give you enough testimony against
it to convince mummy, but what is
the use. A physician said: mo one
but those employed like me by the
society l serve know the extent of gam
bling both in and out of church member
ship. Why, took the sacrament in my
church with six members adopts in
gambling near me-" Fearful to think
of it,
Oh, Christians, cards weaken your
health by late hours; they take away
your thoughts from serious things; they
weaken your Christian influence. Said
Sabbath school boy to his teacher:
eve boys had dispute. Jim said you
we're PLAYING cards last night. said
you would not do such thing. You
didn't, did your" Do you wonder that
her sense of grief made her want to
crawl into hole and pull the hole after
her? The Christian to have power in
the world must be distinguished from it.
Some people think the church narrow
when it prohibits such things A child
wanted to play in the gutter and was
soiling his clothes. OF course, his mother
demonstrated. He cried: 1T faint
worth living any more. can't play in
the dirt, nor nothing" How many peo-
pie think life is shorn of its pleasures
when they are prohibited from playing
| in the dirt.
Parents, the burden of responsibility
is with you. The voice of the church is
of little authority if you are Indifferent.
You mould character. Leaders of soci-
ETY., you impose on young people for
personal qualification customs which
parents, ministers and conscientious
persons oppose. things in which there is
no benefit but they are full of peril.
physical, social and moral. You give no
tonic to moral character to neutralize
the effects of that baleful yielding to
popularity, fashion and society, which
you induce. You virtually set children
against parents and church and open
pathways of temptation to them. You
take terrible risks and cause others to
do the same for the sake of fashion and
self indulgence.
If you would shun the professional
gambler and warn your children against
him; If you would be ashamed to have
it known that he was your companion;
if you would resent his fawning, officious
approaches and teach your children so
to do, then do not convert your parlors
into gambling places and yourselves
into gamblers on a fashionable scale,
Just for fun or qualification. Would
you give them the first lessons in that
which may ruin them, then go ahead.
and when the little one says, oh, man.
ma, or papa, where did you get that
pretty picture; did anybody give 1t to
you? You can slyly wink at your part
ner in vice and answer: yes; but you
know it is lie. Come, be honest and
tell the child that you gambled for it,
| Show them the cards and the tricks and
tell them to go win for themselves
pleasure and fortune from the cards
Will you dare do it.
| entreat you parents. one and ALL
stand for consistency, for righteousness
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