THE GAMBLER'S DEFIANCE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 16.

THE GAMBLER'S DEFIANCE.

In New York City, recently, word went out from the police force ordering all the gambling-houses and pool-rooms of the city to be closed. But, instead of obeying the command of the police, the pool-room keepers and leading gambling-house keepers got together in a mass-meeting, and passed resolutions that they would defy and resist the police, and, not having been driven out and made to obey the law, they grew arrogant, and defied the law and its officers. Sin is like that in our own hearts and lives. If we drive evil thoughts out at once, they will stay away; but if we permit them to come into our hearts, and allow sinful habits to form, they will become thorns in our side, and in the end deadly snares which will overthrow us.—Dr. Louis Albert Banks in the Sunday School Times.