Encouraging Gambling

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 23, 1913

Encouraging Gambling

THERE are more devices in existence at the present time for pandering to the gambling mania than at any previous time in this world's history. It is also true that more money is being wasted at the present time over the gaming-table than ever before. Fortunes are won and lost over a single table in a single night. The spirit to risk what one has in the chance of getting more is permeating almost every avenue of society, and is being fostered by those who ought to stand as a bulwark against its encroachments. We have seen from time to time unmistakable evidence of this spirit among both men and women. Deplorable as the fact is, it is a fact nevertheless, which must be admitted by all who read; and the paid guess is one of the principal members of the faculty in the gambling school. The great deceiver has set a fast and furious pace for the people of these days, and he is strewing the path with his victims on the right hand and on the left. The Christian can not afford to tamper with these pitfalls of the enemy, even though he find them built up in the church in the form of the grab-bag and other games of chance. The Christian's life is a serious business, and it is not worked out along any of these lines.