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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. CxA~ TUESDAY NOVEMBER 188(>
TALMAUE’S SERMON.
XT. ralm-co riMM . nir-.ln. Sermon on II
CurJ.oit H ilo>Meni,Th« li to 111 III nod
ol Moo*"- tho In], of OiobliM of
Every DeiOeiptton Buowa Op.
BnooKLYlf. N. Y.. November 7 —[Special ]—
Tho Utv. T. DoWJit Talmage, D D., preathe!
in tha Brooklyn labernaols this morainic on
the subject, •‘Aceldama.” Tha opaninf h/mu
mat
After expounding the epistle of Ji
cerate* tte nature of temptation. Dr. Talmsge
annoureed the text, Acts I, 19: "Aceldama,
that is to lay, The Field of Blood." Folio*
In* Is the sermon In full:
The money that Judeayarn for surrendering
Christ wsa used to purchase a grsreysrd. As
the money ns blood money, the * round
boosht by it waa called in the Syriao tongas,
Aceldama, meaning "The Field of Blood."
Well, there Is one word I want to write today
oxer every racecourse where wagers are
staked, end erery poolroom, and erery gamb
ling saloon, and erery table, public or private,
where men and women bet for rams of mousy,
largo or small, and that is a word lucarnadluel
with the life of innumerable victims—Acel
dama. The gaipblln* spirit, wbioh is at all
times a stupendous evil, ever and anon swespi
over the country like an eptdemie, proeiratlug
uncounted thousands. There has never be in
a none attack than that from which all tho
Tillages, towns and cities are now
coffering. The forces recently enacted In oar
Brooklyn courtroom by which it wuf proved
that In tho city of chare has there Is not
oiouih moral force to pit Into the penlteu-
ttmy the gambling Jockeys who belong there,
it only a specimen of the power geloed bv this
abomination, which Is biesin, sanguinary,
transcontinental end hemispheric.
While among my hearers ere those who
bare pissed on into tho afternoon of Ufa, and
the shadows are lengthening, and the sky
crimsons with the glow of the setting ran, n
large number of them are in early
life, end tho mornlog Is coming
down not of tho clear tky upon thorn, and tho
bright air is redolent with spring bIcssoms,eud
tho stream of life, gloaming and glancing,rush*
as cn between flowery beaks, making music as
It gees. Some of yon are engaged In meresn-
tile concerns as clerks and bookkeepers, and
your whole Ilfs Is to be passed In the exciting
world of 1 raffle. The aoend of bosy Ufa stirs
yon as the dram stirs the fiery war horse.
Others ere in the mechanical aria, to hammer
and ohiael your tray through life, and enoooia
awaits you. Some are preparing for profea-
eiocsl Ilfs, end grand opportunities era before
S n: nay, some of you already have hackled on
e armor.
But, whatever yonr age or eafllng, the sub
ject of gambling aboat which I speak today. Is
pertinent. Sumo tears ago, when anaaeode-
tlon for tho snppieeston of gambling wsa or-
gai iud, an agent of tha sssoclstlon crate to a
B omlnent citizen and asked him to patronise
a society. Ha said: "No, I can have no
ldtereet In each an organization, I am io no
wise affected by thst ova" At that vary time
bis son, who was his partner In badness, was
cub of the heaviest players In "Herne's a fa-
mons gambling establishment Another re
futed his patronage on tho same ground, not
knowing that his first bookkeeper, thoagh
reteivirg a ml try of only a thousand dollars,
' waa losing from fifty to one hundred dollars
per night The president of a rsllroad oom-
par.y rofnrcd to pttroulao the lnstitottoc,
asjlng: "That avdety la good for tho de
fer. so of merchants, but w# railroad people an
not lrjored by this evil,” not knowing that at
that very time two of fata conductors won
spending three nights of each week at fsro
tables In New York. Dlreotly or indirectly
this evil strikes at the whole world.
Gambling Is the risking of something more
or lees valuable In the hope of winning mora
than yon baeerd. Thoinsirnmenteof gaming
■nay differ, but the principle is the seme. The
shuffling end dealing of cards, however felt of
temptation, ta not gambling nnleea stake* are
K t np; while on the other hand, gambling may
carried on without cards, or dice, or blltlanij,
or a ten-pin alley. The man who hots on
horses, on elections, on battles—tha man who
dealt in "fancy "alecks, or conducts n business
which hazards extra capital, or goat Into treat-
net ions withoutfonndeilun butdopendont upon
What men call "lush," ta s gambler.
It ta estimated that one-fonrth the holiness
In London ta dene dishonestly. Whatever
you ispect to get from yourneighbor without
offtrlig an equivalent In money, or time, or
•kill, ta either tho prod net of theft or gaming:
lottery llekeu end lottery policies come lota
the seme category. Fairs for the bonding of
hotpliela, icboota end churches, conducted on
the raffling system, corns under the tune
denomination. Do not, therefore, astoclata
gambling necessarily with any Instrument, or
game, or time, or place, or think tho principle
depends upon whether you play foragtatt of
wins or one honored sham of railroad stock.
Whether j,u patronise "Mellon pools,"
"French mutuals." or ‘ bookmaklnr:"
whether yon imply faro or billiards, rondo
«qd keno, cards or nsgatello, tho vary Idas of
the thlog ta diehoneat for It professet to be
stow open yon a good for whioh you give no
aqolvelent.
This crime ta no new born sprite, hot e hag
gard transgression that oomei alaggerlog
down under a mantle of cant through many
centuries. All nations, barbarous end civil
ized, have been addicted to it. Before 1833
the Fnuob government received revenue
front gemtng houses In 1567 Eogland for
the Improvement of her harbors lnetltated e
lottery to be held et the tront door of 8t.
Feul'e cathedral. Four hundred thousand
tickets were eeld et ten •hillings each. Toe
British museum and Westminster bridge wara
partially bails by simitar procedure*. Tha
ancient Germane would sometimes pat np
themselves end femilv as priate, and anffar
theeiMlvse to be hound, though eirouger tnao
the person* who w-m them.
But now tho Inwe of the whole civilised
world denounce toe system. Enactments
have been paseed, bet only partially inforeed,
and at times not In forced at all:" The mao In
terested In gaming bouaee, end in Jockey
clnbe, wield eueb Influence by their number*
and effluence thatsae Judge, the Jury and the
police effleer must he bold indeed who weald
array themselves against theca Infamous es
tablishment* The nouse of consumes of Erg-
land actually adjourns on Derby day to go out
sad bet on the note; and In the boat circles
of society in (hie country today cremecy
hundreds of, pmfaaordiy, reepeotahtamonwho
•re acknowledged eeeiblert-
Hundreds of tboaauds of dollars In this
land are every day b-ingwonand loetthrougb
■beer gambling b«je e traveler through the
west: "1 have treveled a thousand milt* at a
time upon the weaieru waters, rad seen
gambling et every waking moment from the
eemmeremeet to the termination of the jour
ney." The HHithwmc of this country neks
with this sin. Id note of tbeee ettlae every
thlid or fourth huo.e in many of tho emote
lea gamieg place, and it may be truthfully
averred that each of the cities ta cursed with
this evil. •
la themtelvee most of the gtmes employe!
In gaublteg us without hero. Billiard ta
bles ere as harmless at to* tables, sod s pick
of card* as a pack uf letter envelop**, noloss
•takes be pus no. Bus by teelr use for gam-
blirg purposes th- y ban heconto elgaitosat of
an Infinity of wrrtcoedoeea—oil hundred gaol
bllng calounc in New York city whin last
Mon wishing so gamble will find placet Jilt
■sited to tbrtr esp-ct y. not only In the under
ground ojstnrceilar. nr et the table bark of
the enrtala, e-'T»r, d wi'h ereasv cards, or to
the steamb-et e-i-ok leg cabin, where the blott
ed wretch with riega In hie ears deals oat hi*
pack, and wink* In >he nnsatpos-Jag Iravoltar
—nrnoidles hee dtfako all around—hut I't
gilded parlors and amid gorgeous surround-
Thluln works rain, firet. by anheilthfol
stimulants Eintomenita pleesacoht* Utter
•very shy and in every eve men have sought
It. tho Cefeaman t-ta ta by amoklog bis
opium; tboPerslen by ebovlgg hashish; the
trapper In a buffalo knot; she tailor UeeqesU;
the intbrfsio in the bottle, anti tho avarlcio-ti
at the gaming table. Wo uniat at times hare
• x-1 uncut. A thouaaud voices in onr nv.no
dinisudit. It It tight. It Uhoal.hfal. It it
lu>|iiitlng. It ta a desire God given. B it
•I'J thing that first gratidaa this appetite and
burls it bark in e terrido reaction, Is deplora
ble and nicked. Look out for tho axtiatioa
that, like a rough tuuslciin, in bringing out
the tutio plays to herd he brealu down train-
e'rnment, God never made man a;roog
eutngh to endure tho wear and tjar
of gambling excitement. No won
der If, after having failed la
iho. game, men have began to swoop off im-
•Slnary gold from the side of tho table. Tha
mtn was sharp enough when ho started at tha
gsme, hut a maniac at the clow. At ovary
settling table rit on on one side ecstasy, en
thusiasm, romance—tho mnsy of Joy; on tho
other tide, fierceness, rage and tnmalt. Tut
piefcesional gamester sehoota hlmaalf into ap
parent qoletnet* Tho keepers of gambllog
rooms are generally fat, rollicking and obese;
but thorough and profeaeloDnl gtmhlert, In
nine cnees out of ten, ere pels, thin, wheel
ing, tremulous end exhausted.
A young man having suddenly lnhorital
a targe property, eltt et the haiud tablet, end
•takes up In e diet box the estate won by n
father’s lifetime's sweat, and shakes it, and
tease* it away. Intemperance toon stigmatizes
Ira victim—kicking him out, a slavorlng fool,
into tha dltih, or sanding him, with the
diunkard’a hiccough, eteggering an the street
where hie family live* But gambling dote
not in that way expose Its victim* The
gambler maybe eaten np by the gambler’s
passion, yet yon only dieoover it by tho greed
in hie ejee, the hardness of his features, tho
nervous restlessness, the threadbare coat, end
hit ember reseed business. Yet hi is oe
the road to hell, rad no preacher's voice,
or startling warring, or wife's ootreaty, oan
make him stay for a moment his hosdloog
carter. Tho tnrernal spoil is on him; * giant
ta aroused within; and thoagh yon bind him
with cablet, they would pert like thread, end
though you fatten him ecven timet round with
chains, they would snap like rusted wire; and
though you piled up io his path haaven high.
Bibles, tract* and sermons, and on the top
should set the cross of the Son of God, over
thrm all the gambler would leap like a roe
over the rick* on bis way to perdition. “Ac
eldama, tho Arid of blood."
Again, this sin works rain by killing Indus
try. A mtn ns<d to reaping scores of hnndreda
ot dollars from the gaming table trill not be
content with alow work. Ho will say; “What
is the use of trying to mska these fifty dollars
In my store, when I can got flva times that In
half sn boor down at Billy’s?" Yon never
know a confirmed gambler who was indus
trious Tho men given to this vies spend
tnelr time,not actively employed In the gemot
id [Idleness or Intoxication, or sloop, or In
collapsing now victim* This sin hat dolled
the cai poutar’e saw, and cut the band of the
fectoty wheel, rank the cargo, broken the
teeth of tho farmer’s harrow, sod tents
strange lightning to abettor the battery of
the philosopher. Tho very first ldra
in gsmlug ta at war with all the Industries of
society. Aoy trade or occupation that ta of
use le ennobling. The street tweener ad
vances the intonate of eocletjr by tho derail-
ntts effected. The oat psyt tor the fragments
It cats by clear log the house of vermin. The
fly that takes the aweetneee bom tho dregs
or the cap compensates by purifying the sir
and keeping heck the pcstllosoo. But the
gambler gives not anything for that whlsh he
takis I recall that sentence. He dose make
e retain, bnt It ta disgrace to tho mtn he
fleece* despair to his bout, rain o hit bust-
ms* tngnlsh to hit wife, theme to hie children
and eternal wasting awsy to his soul. He pays
in teen, end blood, end agony, end darkness,
end woe.
What dull work le ploughing to tho farmer
when In tha village saloon in one night he
mekstend loses the veins of* tnmmer her
vest! Who will went to tell tope, end meerare
nankeen, end cut garments, end weigh sazan,
when Inn night’s gems he makes end Ion
end makes asaln end loses again the profits
e season? John Borack wai esnt as mercantile
•gent from Bremen to England end this coun
try. After two year* fata employers mlttrastod
that all waa not right Ho wsa a defaulter
tor elgbty-seven thousand dollars. It was
found that ho had lost io Lombard street Lon
don, twenty-nine thousand dollars; io Fulton
street New York, ton thousand dollars, sad In
New Orleans, three thousand dollar* Ha wee
Imprisoned but afterwards escaped, and went
Into tha gambling profusion. He died in
a lonatio asylum. This crime
is getting lie lever under many a mercantile
hotue In onr cities, end before loog down will
come tha great establishment crashing repu
tation, home eomfrrt and Immortal tool*
Bow It diverts and sinks capital may be la-
t*md from tome enthentto statement baton
e* The ten gaming booses that ooce were
authorised in Petit passed through tho beaks
yearly, three hundred and twenty-five mil
lions of banc*
When does nil the money come from? The
whole world la robbed! What ta moat sad,
Ultra art no cooaolationa tor the lots and auf
fsring entailed by gambllog. If mse fall In
lawful business, God pitlos and society com-
mlierates; bnt where to tho Bible or In society
is there any consolation tor tha gambler?
From what Iraa of tha torait ouie
tori* s balm that can soothe the geneiter'e
besr? In that bottlo where Uol kcops thetssre
of Bit children, uethera ray teen of thegam
hist? Do tho winds taat corns to klu tho
faded cheek of sloknees and cool tho heated
brow of the laborer, wbtapar hope sad ekaar
to the smaolaltd victim of the gameof htetr-1?
Whin an honest man la Id trouble, bo has s/m
pat by. ‘Poor follow!" they say. Bat. do
ssmbtarecome to weep at she agonies of the
otinblti? In Nonhnmbirland wu one of the
finest sttatu in Eogland. Hr. Porter owned
it, and in * year gambled it all sway.
Having lost tha laatacre of tha estate, he
came down from the aaloon, and
sot Into hta carriage; want back; pnt np
on k side alley met e friend, from whom
b» borrowed ton guinea* went beck to the *»•
loot, add before** groat while had won twen'y
t Contend poood* Ha died at last a bog car io
It G'lfS- How many gamblers telt sorry tor
Nr. Porter? Who consoled him oaths lost
ofhbeetats-? What gambler eobtcribal to pot
e stone over the poor man's grave? Not ooe!
Furthermore. this tin to he aonre* of an-
counted dishonesty. Tho gems of hettrd it
self is often n chest. Haw many tricks and
dicepilonsintbe dealing of the cardal Tbe
opponent’s hud ta oft limn found oat by
baud. Cards are marked to that
they may be designated from
tbe beck. Expert gamesters have
their srcompllcea! end one wink may
decide the gam* Tbe dice have bun found
loaded with plattna so that doublets earn# np
even time. The dies era introduced by tbe
gamblers unobserved by the houses man who
have seme Into the play, end this teepuntt tor
tbe fees that niaety-niae out of a hundred who
gamble, however wealthy when they begat- tt
tbe end are found to be poor, mlrerabl*. hag
gard wretches, that would not now bo allowed
to alt on Ike dooratepof tbohooso that they
once ownsd. In a gaming house In Ban Fran-
dsco, a young man having Jogt come from tho
mints deposited a large turn npon the as* had
won twenty-two thousand dollar* Bat tho
tide torn* Intones anxiety eemee upon the
coontcnarcee of ell. Slowly tho cards wont
forth. Every eye It fixed. Not e toon! ta
hserd, nntil tho ace to revealed faverabtot*
tho beak Thera era ahratt of “Foal 1 Foal!’’
hot the keepers of the table prod ace their
pistol* end tbe uproar It tilonoed, rad tho
backbit won sine-five thousand dollar* Dr
yen cell this* gameof ehtaoo? Thera tana
chance sheet It
Bet these dishonesties hi tha carrying on of
the isue era nothing when compared with the
frauds that era committed In order to got
non-y to go on with tbe nefarioas work
Gambling, with lie needy hand, ha* searched
sway the widow’s mlto end tho podtion of
■be orphans; hie told tho daughter's virtue to
get the meins to c mtleao the game; has writ
ten tbe eoonterfeit e-gnarore; emp'lel the bar-
Ill’s morey vault, and wielded the assassin's
dagger. Thera ta no depth of meaneeM to
wb eh It will not stoop Thera tauerael'.y at
a bicb ft fa appalled. Than ta to wtri lag of
0.d that It rail not darn Mercl-e*. heap-
u* arable fiercer and wilder It blinds. It bar-
den* it rand* it blast* it etnabes; it dama* It
Las peopled cur pris- ns and lunatic asylnmi.
How many railroad agents, and ctibur-,
sod uuaiti* of fun is It lies driven to dit
grace. Incarceration, an! suicidal Witoosi
yaari sgoa cashier of the Central Kail rood and
Hanking company, of Georgia, who stjla one
hundred and three thousand dollars to carry
on his gaming practioc* Wltnoai the tort:
theueand dollars stolon Dram n Brooklyn ban!
within ibe memory of many of jou, and th.
or.e hundred end eighty thousand dol
lars taken from • Wall street in
surance company for tha same purpose. Thsoo
aie only Illustrations on a largo scale of tho
tobberits conimttud for the purpose of carry
ing out the designs of gambler* Hundred!
of thousands of dollars every year leak oat
-without observation from tho morahant'a till
Into tho gambling hell.
A man in London keeping one of these
gambling bouses boasted that ha had rained a
koblsman • day; hot if all the saloons of tola
land waiatoapeak oat, they might attar n
mora infamous boast, for they have destroyed
a thousand nobtameu o year.
Notlct also tha effect of this crime npon
domestic happinea* It has tent ita rathlasa
ploughshare throogh hundreds of Camilla*
until the wife sat In rag* sad tbe daughters
wendtograetd, sod tha tout grew np to tha
lame lufamona practice* or took • abort cut to
destruction aero is tho murderer's scaffold.
Benia has lost all charms for tbe gambler
How tamo an tho children’s caresses and a
wife’s devotion to tha gambler! How drearily
the fire burnt on tho domestie hearth! Thera
n.uit bo loader laughter, and something to
win, and something to loos; an exotiamsni to
drive tho heart faster, fillip tho blood and fir*
tbe Imagination. No homo, however bright,
can keep back the gamester. Tha sweat sail
of love bounds bark from bit Iron tout, rad all
endearments t» oontnmed la tha flraofhia
partion. Tbe fomily Bible srill go after all
other treasure* are lost, and if hta crown In
Heaven ware potlnto hta hand ha would ary:
“Hire goes; one more gnat* my boy* On
Ibis one throw I stake my crown of Heaven."
A young man In London,coming of uge,
rretlvrd a fortune of one hundred rad tweuty
thousand dollar* and through gambling. In
three year* wu thrown on hta mother tor
luppott.
An only ion wont to New Orison* Ha wu
rich, intellectual and elegant in manner*
Bis parents gave him, on bit departure from
home, their tut blessing. Tha sharpers got
hold of him. They flattered him. They
land him to the gaming table and 1st him
win almost every time tor a good wbil* and
patted him on the heck and nld- "First-rata
player." Bn* tolly In their grasp, they fit
r ' \, and bit thirty thousand dollars
of all, he put up hta watoh rad
began to think of hta
him,
)(||t, f
1, it thato Then bo _ .. . _
homo, and of hta old father and mother, and
wrote thus:
•My beloved parents: Yon will doubtless
feel a momentary Joy at tho reception of this
I* iter from th* child of yonr baaoea on whom
yon have lavished all tha favors of yonr do
cunlng years. Bat should a foaling of Jay
foramimrnt spring up in yonr heart* when
yon should have received this from m*
cherish It sot I bavo fallen deep, never to
rise. Thou gray hair* that I should htv*
honored ana protected, I shall bring
down In sorrow to tho gnv* I will not
carte my destroyer, but, oh, may God avenge
tha wrongs ana impositions practiced area
tbe unwary. In • way (bet shall hast pletu
Him! This, my dear parent*l* the last latter
yon will aver tensive from m* I humbly
pray your forgiveness It limy dying prayer.
Long before yon will have received this from
me, the cold grave will have elosed upon ma
forever. Lltotomela Insupportable. I can
not, say, I will no* suffer the shame of hav
ing-ralntd yon. Forget and forgive tho dy
ing prayer of yonr unfortunate ton."
Th* old father came to tbs post offlo*got tha
letter and fell to tho floor They thought ho
was dead at first, but they brushed back tho
whit* hair from his brow rad fanned him. Ha
bid only ftintod. I wish ha had bean dead,
tor what 1s life worth to a father after his ten
h[ destroyed? “Aceldama, The field of
blood I"
When things go wrong at a gaming table,
they cheat: "Frail Foot I” Over all the
S mug tables of tbs world I cry out: "Fool I
nil Infinitely foul I"
"Gift atone" are abundant thronghoat the
country. With a book, or knife, or uwtng
machine, or cos* or carriage, there goes a
prize. At theta stores people get something
thrown In with thtlrpurchase. II may be a
S old watoh, or a ICS of silver, a ring, or a farm.
harp way to get off unsalable good* It hu
filled th* land with fictitious article* and cor-
s red op our population with bras* fiugar ring*
aud despoiled tha moral tests of the comma*
ally, and ta tost making at a nation of gam
blers
The church of God hu not seemed willing
to allow tbe world to have alt tbs advantage
oftbeugamrsofchuce. A church falropeu*
aud towuds Me clou It ta found Mat soma of
tha more valuable articles are uosstable.
Forthwith, the conductors of tha enterprise
conclude that they will reflla for some of tbs
valuable article* and, under pretense of ana-
kty to maka thtlr minister a present or ptaau
some popular member of tho ebarah, fss.-Inal
lug persons are dispatched throogh tho room,
ptt.c1l In band, to "solicit shares," or perhaps
each draws for hta own advantage, and score,
of piople go home sriih their trophies, think-
in* that b all right, tor Gortalian tad lea did
th* sn broidery and Christian man dl! the
raffling, and tha proceeds wont towards a new
contmotilon at* Bat yon may depend on 1*
Mat sa far u morality la oonoeraed, you mlcht
si well have won by the crack of Ms bllUsrJ
ball or th* tom of th* die* box.
Do yon wonder that churches ball* light*?
or uihn'suied by each procams as that cams
to great financial and spiritual dscraptlMda?
Tbe davit says: "I helped to build that house
of worship, and I have •< much right than as
you bavs;" and tor one* tbs devil ta right.
Wa do not read Mat they had a lottery for
building theehumb.at Corinth, or at Antiocb,
or forfeiting npraambroldareil surplice far
Ail this I stylo cceloslutlcsl gambling.
Mere than on* mao who ta destroys! era say
that h'a list step no tha wroog rot! wu whoa
hr won oomsthing ss a church fair.
The gambling spirit hu not stoppad tor any
Indtcatey. Then transpired In Maryland n
lottery In which people drew tor lota la •
boijing- ground Tho modern habit af writing
ab ut everything Is productive of immtna*
ralrchtaf. The most healthful and Inaooaot
ammementa of yachting rad baseball playing
bavo been Ma occasion of putting np oxeltea
•nd extravagant wager* That which to taaay
bu beta advantageous to body and mind, hu
bstn to others tha meant or financial aa!
moral loan. Tho eastern la poraWooa to tha
extreme, whore scone of mania re* (notable
Uto give themselves np to batting, now on
Mia boat; now on that; oow on this hall dab,
BOW OB tbftt*
Boning, that once eras chiefly tho accom-
railment of tha race eonrt* ta rat becoming
a rational habit, and In toms circles any opin
ion advanced on finance or politics ta accosted
with Ma Intel rogation: "Haw much will yoa
baton that,tli?’
This enstora may make no appeal to slow,
lethargic ttmpoiamtnt* bat there sn in tho
country tens of theasuds of quick, norvoas,
rugnine, exdtsablo tomparamrat* ready to
b* actsd upon, an! Ihslr feat will soon taka
bold on death. Foraome month* and par
haps tor year* they will Hager In tha mora
polite and elegant dido of gems'er* ba*
afura whU* their pathway will coma to tea
laltd plunge Finding themselves In tbs rapid*
Ibay will try to back on* and, hnrle!
over tka brink, they will eintch tha alia of too
heal until their finger nail* blood lipped, will
pirns the wood, and then, wish white cheek
and agentaed glare, and tha barren of tha leas
real lifting tbe very bolr from tha aealg, they
sriirplonga down whore aa grappliag hooka
can dreg rheas aa*
Y-iung man! aland back from all stylos of
gambliBg Tha rod thereof Is daub. Too
ten I In allay affords tha best of physical axar
ell* sod nany so bear I have pawed In torn*
sack place, getting physical Inviaoratloc; has
■ary of tho ton-pin allave sn now given
np la ram Mir g prtr*lees- Hashoad* broker*
fatorr* safer. Pot down ynor thou-
an* dollars all In gdd eaglet! Lrtthahovaat
wn the pit a at the arbor an! of the allay! Now
stand bark and give Iho gamre'er fullawaaet
R..II tba first—tboral Itatrlka* aa! daw* goes
hta scs|*et*Mlitjl Try It again. Bril the
srrond—More! Itatrlki--! an! down g-iei the
iisi frrling of humauit)! Try It again. Roll
ilia thiid— tbars! it strikes aud dawn gosi hi-
•uni lorrvctl Ii wu nut so much the pint that
fill «• the soul! the toul! Fatal lei itrlku for
tlrrnity. “Aceldama, th.i field of blood."
Bball I sketch the iilsinry ofihe gambler?
Lured by bad company, ho Aids hit way into
at-Iacr wherekuuratturn oughtnovor toco.
Ho tits down to bis firet gain* but only for
outline and the desire of being tbo irht sools-
bio. The players deal out the osrlt
They nuconicionsly play ml-
Batsn’s binds, who takes all tho tilcka an!
bottrtho players’ souls for tramps—he bol l* *
tba>|er stray game. A slight stake it put
np, Jnst to add intoreat to tba play. Uvns
after game 1s played. Larger stakes an! ami
larger. They begin to more nervously uu
tbelrebain. Tbeiv brows lower, and ayes
flub, until now they who win pad they waa
less. Died alike with passion, alt wtihut
jaws, and compressed lip* and clenched fist*
aud errs like firs balls that aeem starting
fiom their socket* to see tho final tarn before
it comet; if loeiug, pile with envy aud tram
ulcus with Dtiutteud oaths cut back rad hot
upon tha heart or, winning, with hystorio
laugh—“He! hi! I have ll!"
A fewyears have pawed, and ha ta only tho
wreck or a man. Seating himself at tha gams,
are be tarewa Ma first card, he stakes the lau
relic of hta wife—tho marriago - ring which
teakd tha solemn vowi between them. Tha
game ta lot* and ataggaring back In exbust-
ion he dieami. Tho bright boars ot tbs pwl
mock hta agony, end Id his dream* friends
with cyiscf Hie and longues uf flame circle
about him with Joined hand* to danoo an!
sing Ihslr orglta with hellish chorus, chant-
log: ' Hall, brother!" biasing hta clammy fore,
bead nntil thtlr loathsome look* flowiog with
■rrpent* crawl Into hla bosom, and sink their
•harp fsnga and tuck op bit Ufo'a blood, an!
rolling around bit brart pinch it with chills
and ahnddere unutstable.
Take mining! You are no stronger than
tons of thousands who hav* by this praotlo*
been overthrown. No young maa in oar cities
ran aacape being tempted. Be ware of lUallrst
beginning!! Tularoart las down-grade, rad
every inslant Increaeee the momentum.
Launch net npon thta treacherous am. Mint
bulks strew tbe beach. Evorla.tlng atormi
howl np and down, totting onwary crafts into
tbs hsU-gate. I apeak of whet I havo soon
with my own eyes. 1 kave locked off into tb*
abys* and have seen lha foaming and tha hiss
ing aud tha whlrllog of Ma horrid deep in
which 1bs mang cd victims writhed, one upon
another, and straggled, strangled, biaepbe ned
nd ditd—Me death-aura of eternal despair
upon tbalr eountenuesa aa the water gargled
aver theml
To a gambler's death-bed there oomta no
hope. He will probably dla alone. Hie Tur
ner associates coma not nigh hta dwelling
When the hour come* hta mtaenble aonl will
to ent of a tutserablo III* Into a miserable
eternity. As bis poor remains past tbe hoots
where he wee rained, old companions may
lock outs moment and ray: 'There goat tba
old caioasa—dead at last;” but they will
gatnp from Ma table. Let him duwo now
into hta grave Plant no tree to out Its ahtdr.
there, for tbe loog deep eternal gleam that
rattles there la shadow enongh. Plant no
for get ma note or eglantines aronnd tha epos,
for flowers were not made to grow on snob a
blasted heath. Visit It not In tbn sunshine,
for that wonld ba mockery, bnt In tha dtsmal
night, when no ataia are out, and the spirits of
riaikmas toms down horw d pu tha wind, then
visit the grave of Ma gambler.
BROTHERS 8M ALL AND JONES.
They Recount Ih* Work which They Hava
Irena ta „ Yaar.
Borraio, November !.-— The Bov. 8«<n
email has Just completed bis first year of avao-
ztllcal work In conjunction with the Rev. 8tm
>, of Georgia llu gave today an account of
xpretences and plana for the future. lle
preached to a Isrse gstherluguf young men at tba
Young Men's Christian atmrlttloa hall, and
sdonstedaitllllameraufileuoaat Graoe Metho-
dlftt cl)uich, Mr. Email Mid:
Brother Jonss and I, In tha year ending Bep-
tenter 1* have bold serrioos In 8* Loot* Chi-
rsfo, Cleveland, Chautauqua, and otBar places.
We have preached sod addiaswd and tenor* in
that terlod about 1000 time* Ibe congregations
atangstlng *000,010 people. Wo bare traveled
altogether 20.010 miles. Onr schedule tor she
future takes us to Omaha Dm then to Boston lu
January, Ban Francisco In February and March,
ibcnco to Mhnmapoli* Roma, Ga., Rod Kwh,
Lonlano, Uiban* Round Lass, Grimsby Park,
Gut, rad otoer points Wo hare enough applies*
linns to occupy our Ilo* for fir* year* but bare
only made positive engagement* a yaar ahead."
’Do you rseolva m.uy totters?'
'We get bushels of letter*, but we only answer
the sensible cue*. The letters from oruks we
hum. Some very scnsstlonal stories are told la
thsto loiters. Bcren tsuiha of tha misery we boar
or ta caused by liquor. It ta growing mot* apo tr-
►UI that Ihs ehuren must destroy tho liqu-ir tram i
orltnlllUiroitlotheeburiih. Tuoonurohtaafflio-
tad In this* fiajl with erred0**1 Of starch, (10001
and plush. It needs d/eDohlug with sport dm
seal, human sympathy, and plain United Blue,
preaching.”
Mr. Final! waa asked If hta Jimroallstli expert,
race bad aided him In hta evangelical work. Bs
"«Si. I meet as many woodsn-haadad people
aid ersuks here as In Journalism Id this wiring
reiliP-n you catch them all, from Ih* wlld-eyari
manufacturer uf be mllUunUl aimauao. to tu
aed *teu ata er wlw want* to lire 10 too tba wool*
ntatbeu world rigaedout ln new red flannel*’’
8AM JOHICM’ 8«YI.NOA
What tits Georgia kraugsllil Bald to Use
From the Toronto Globe.
We ere tnao position to help or hart tho
church umil we we Inside I*
1 tenouMe with tho church It tathatta avast
best tial; It takes all tbe well once to tags oar* of
ib* sick one*
Y. u can help your preacher. Instead of everlast
ingly calling on your preacher to help yoa.
Nobody over went to strap lodUtoreat to religion
■lid wued ud la ht-Dvra
Ttiro ta nothing belter In beeven than religion.
Our acUosu ol today are tho thoughts or yester
day.
If you lire In impure thoughts von will be Im-
oto In yonr live*
A truthful woman ta th* grandest adornment of
homo.
Fronts here rained many a girl.
IwantiotMouryoongglrtagrowuphettar wo
men than oar mothers and wives are.
A thlid U loved by God because ft hu no opin
ions aid wanta to Irtun something.
Too nun who will bttak oh or God's command-
menu habitually ud continually, If you will tom
bln, luce, *1! break them all
t rurally ta more oe Iasi a proftarion of yonr loy
ally to the devil.
Mans a man In Utta town's going to hall aa a
sabbath breaker, rad goes about bragging all th*
urn* what a good Sunday w* hav* bar* In To-
MOt
You show ma a man who kaep* tba Btbbatb dag
holy, and I'll Mow you a mao tnat'a a Christian
•11 to* wick.
Dishonesty In Ut* church ta really crippling th*
church more than uythlngata*.
It’s tMao now Mas if yon rest It they'll pul
you id gaol, hut If yoa steal (10 000 they'll call yon
I brllsre a blackleg gambler Isa gentle man bo
sideBciureh member who speculates in Mock*
and futures.
A ehuren that can’t do anything hot keep Itacli
stnl.hilssfai.nre.
1 atm beam yes of a committee asking for e
preacher tbas Is popular with God Almighty.
it Iskts prayer, ilody end thought to grt op a
it teltts a first itaas preacher an! 0 Int-cUw
bearer to grt up a Out class sermon.
Find a.** man preparing himself to bear thrjioa
pel. •w I era show yea a aun Mas ta going to be
ten fluid by tk* Oe-pel
ll Iskesaeld pe* u> make e cold pulpit.
Ins peculiar fellow; I do tare nr wife.
»UP Icto besren Urtf.nted su! bareheaded
rather than mho ft po account nf laylblagli
the world.
Deni get Into anybody's way with your natarai-
act* bet try to be youreslf wherever you *4
When a been ta chuck fall or error, there H Bo
loom Id there lor ibe iratb.
Ibe Infidelity Mat hurts Is the Infidelity fifths
mu wiemekoe Mika’s on God's aide, au! lien
w, n’t lire ap.
ir we're right we can't be hurt by th* truth, aud
ft wo aia’t right woought to be hurt righteously.
Wire
' KAIIIKvr
Yhap IteloPK to ewiii.ra—The Mother*
lio Not Stern Them.
Lucy Stone, to Button Oluhe.
Millions of mnthem all over the Unite!
Elate- gather ilielr title ouraarouod thi-iu, uercr
dreaming that by Iho law they bavo on right to
these cnlldren. Thi-ydouoi kuow that the se e
legal right to children rest* with tho father In all
ejc.pl three of tbestaiet. Meet man do i.ot know
It. A majority of fethrr* II they did know It,
would never assert their right aa asal iat the
mother. But now udthenstatnerwboisaabadas
ibe law kuovra fab legal tlglitaan! assumes them.
Ni t long ago, within a short ride ol llj.tou by
raft, lived a young man and hit wtfe aud there
• ven-montha old baby. Apparently th.-y ware at
peace and prospermia. One day tbe huiuand told
bis wife at neon that a mrialu family
bad nut her an carrc.t Invitation
to spend tba afternoon. Tbe wile said
she “had too many things to do that day to go to
tbit.” Ihittho hu-band raid: •' You ought to go
when Ibry send for you. I will take carp of th*
baby.” Thus urged the wife made ready ud
went. At « o'clock she came Ihome. Tho house
wsa loesed, husband and baby gone. There wu
no letter to explain tbta sudden end unexpected
absence Tbe neltbbon know nothing. Orer-
whelmtd with grief and heartaoha fir her rafting
baby, tba poor mother eosunltad a lawyer. By
hta advice she forced an entrance to tba house.
Bow empty ud desolate ft seemed 1 It wu evi-
deni that tbe hn-band had exercised hta legal
right ud taken the child where he pleased. All
Ibe neighbors sympathised with tbe wife. Men
uld that "tr tha wretch ever returned ho wool!
drsrtve to he tarn! an! feathered." Eseeratl-i#
was loud, deepud abradant, but nnequu-t wo nan
who knew tha law said: "Be is only ss bad asthe
law which allows him the tote itebt to tbe child "
Rut cvety tntn said there wu no auen law. It wu
only alter rermneo to the statute* that (tier would
admit that hero In Muitehuictta a married let her
has a legal iltbt to r< b b'entfn of her children, an!
Mat men who were so cruet, mean rad da.tarcly
were only u bed u tba lew. There was hat oca
Oi It ton of tbe law and ol Ibe man. But tbw con id
not rc tnie tbe tender, betpleia babe to its neither.
If others could tleep or rest, there was uotther
•li ep nor rest for her. iho parents ot tbta husband
lived In Caoadp. It wu most likely ba
had taken toe child to them. Hue had
been to thrlr homo and knew how to find
It. Making neb airaogemanta
were possible, she slatted tor 1 anada. TOO Mute
night the husband returned. Not finding hta wife,
be surmised that she had gone for tbe oblld. Ue
bad rarrird ft to hie parrots. Ho telegraphed thorn
to take tbe child away ud hide ft Tula they did.
When th* young mother appeared at the bom* or
tbe parents uf her husband, with this meMoreleas
grief In her hestt. bis tnuthcr met her at th* door.
On* would suppose that tba heart of tbe ol-i moth
er weald have malted In sympathy for the grief
■•sicken young one llut ratio. 8ha sympathised
with her son. It cannot oow b* told how ft was
Diseased,but she firtlDd the little on* In a h it a-lie,
evldt ntly rot baring been aven|wub*d slnoc It left
home, rad tbe took ft to her own fetbor's house,
where she 1s today In drea! 01
what may happen 'to her rad
to It Tha blether of this cruel father look hta
child a few years ago away from Its mother. Her
relarivM gave him (700 to bring ft psek. ft I* tup
!«»td that this man hoped to make money by a
similar lonureof his wife. There wa.a great deal
of Indignation, both among men and women, In
the reee quoted shove. But what dou It avail? It
Is evident there ft need ot women to neip men
make laws that will protect woman ud nhlldrsn.
But to* representative from toe town whore all
tbta happened voted against woman an (frags In
the Ma-saohurelta legislature lost winter. Iilsto
bo hoped tbet the voten there will ss* toftthht
111-emu not havo tho oppoitumty to do so again.
Mranwhll* th* reproach of ell good cluxsus, men
at d women, should bo so poured cm upon man
whowruugnoiheraand little children mat they
will flic sauihtr lotaveeand robbers fleebetore
hunts! I-topic.
Closet.
BY DH. J.A.gRKRMAN'B
or d -aunt 11 from lai-oi. boos 1
Of Fhr-'xlara, Merchant*. Karmen and mbatc
CIlPL-d mailed for 10 oenw -vavt moot Bit
fiend r -r cnuitlal* DM Ilrordwsy, New York,
may *• tvarkwkv twvou. urn
G HEOROIA,FAYCTTB COUNTY—TO ALL, WHOM
It may concern.—John T. lloscll hu luiloo
Term applied to lb* undersigned for per avi iat
li Here ot udmliilxtrattcn on ittoedate of Munis
Brweli, lata of raid oonnty, deceated, an t I will
K ^ma upon util application on too gras tin 1 i*r in
rtinter, ISM GIvcu under my trend I “
etal signature, this Goober tire aith, UM
biro tuber, DM Given under my Baud aud udl-
tbe SPtn. 1AW1
D. M. FRANKLIN,
yst Ordinary,
"A fikriatun to
nom the HoowkeepenUntoo.
There ta an old sating, "There tea skeleton In
everybody's cloect,” How true we find thta adage
wben w* glaoce Into tb* Inner Ilf* of tboso aronnd
ns, who apparently are ro baupy aa to have all
Mat tba heart creuld desire, and whose supposed
bspi lures w* often envy; but Ilk* Ma ol! lady 1 d
Me story Drum which tbe adaga u derived, w* have
onrcesptrt sympathise moved when wo lean ot
Mat closet lu which a skeleton with Ha gsstly vis
age, marks Me p reran os of some t rostrated hop*,
deeply buried from Inquiring eyas.
There are many mere persona In tbta world
wheel Uvea are double—on* wbioh ta koowu
alone to God ud Mrmteln*-Mraaup*rflolal ob*
tvtven are apt to Mink. Many persona whom wo
Io our tguorano* preooo oed peculiar, proud and
arrogant, are only wrapptog from tun gate of tbn
cold and critical world mum deep wimw, tome
gust mistake, M* ghost of seme mu'dtnd lost
which haunts them -till breatma they toy* ft yet,
but which they sacrificed tor flllby locrfi-oc sojte
Is la* worldly peril Ion.
There ta many a husband who will never tut*
true love, pevtr hav* Ih* cool unco of Me woman
•ham God has given him for hta companion,
nvvrr dream of' ...
her Inmost soul,
atict Ilf*.
Then rands ol Ininriona homes are today govern
ed by Just snob wdmen, who, after the glitter na-
wtsti off Me gold they eouibt ud wnloh nu
tniued Into filmy tinsel when in Mrir grasp, lesru
10 loett e aud bav* coot-mpt for Me splendor an-l
■ssgiiificei.ee ebont them: aud iftwiira In tbalr
power would give yean of Mrir Uvea to ro.rtove
Me part.
IMa ft only on* form Ih* skeleton soma'.!mas
talus—God only Snows In how many otoer auoo-
tuiie li may kcftioud.
In trci. nbersnoe. I re* a mansion, sumptuous
ly fun.tabtd, servants training to and fra, sad in
tbe dreeing room of Mat palace a laity part h r
ptarc. wbuMDlice w lb a rad, met smile-A eetlie
ro baeuilml and sympuhsUo that all who mate
slid go. Insuneuvtly lure her, and soma even
dn m bar happy.
La* na etudy Mat tmlta; Iat na go from thi
craw leg room, and waeh bar knaeileg beside*
ernnktu, loathsome looking, ynuog mao, -mo«
Mat hidden haired, bright eytd baby ooy for whom
rnehadtapeoialions, oxpeoiMleua grand its siy
nu Mi Fax
Rut now, what talar A ant.* nightly revhtari
Ol d all her pleadlnts and loan are n vain
Mains do yen anvy anoh a* Mere tbe comfort!
Mel mo, ry can mm
Luna Wnkif ibe IruM of that adage when we
•re tired era d-aennfenied, end lamior! 10 mink
ear lot Me harden one; let ot thank O-kI mat.
we followi d ibeloMInctsnf oar own lave, that we
- - - darken iwtf
1 tat na lore
, r n-ihle era*
r Mat alM-nig 1 our live
— 1 a bleadug
I gttdly nre
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