Increase of Gambling

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 19, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 25.

Increase of Gambling.

Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., uttered, in a recent sermon, the following truthful words: “The “evils of drink are familiar to you. There are other “evils. But the greatest peril is the insane spirit of “gambling which seems to have taken hold of the “people, irrespective of social standing or religious “belief. The insane desire to get rich quickly is at “the bottom of it all. The incessant gambling on “all sports has wrought demoralization to the country. Horse-racing . . . has been degraded “and bestialized by gambling. Every Saturday “afternoon you see at the race tracks thousands of “working girls and men who have families to support, crazy with the intoxication of gambling. As “each race is run, they stand up, a yelling, cursing, “purple-faced, brutalized gang. From the tiny lad “selling newspapers on the street to men dwelling “in a palace, the gambling spirit seems to have invaded all. Where is this thing going to end? It “is time we called a halt and began to consider “what things are really worth while.” We can tell Dr. Hillis where it will end—in wrecked and ruined lives, destruction of the nation, and the judgment.