Card Playing by Rev. Neal

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 24, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 12.

Card Playing

By Rev. Neal

My experience in four churches has taught me that progressive euchre is a dissipation. Cards have had a past that is black with evil, and Christian people ought to wash their hands of things to be found in the low gambling dens, brothels, gilded saloons, and other places of vice. According to the statistics of Anthony Comstock, in the year 1890, 128 people were shot or stabbed over the gambling table, 6 attempted suicide, and 60 were murdered as the result of the influence of cards. Cards also caused the defalcation of $2,900,372 during the same year.—Rev. Neal, New Brunswick.