Evils of Gambling.—In the April Century, Jacob A. Riis gives us his observations in connection with this fearful evil. He tells us that twenty years of his life were spent at the New York police headquarters, and that he has seen the thing work “from the time the office boy caught the contagion and swiped stamps from the table to bet at the pool-room down to the time when he was sent to Sing Sing for stealing his employer’s thousands.” Respectable men he has seen win a small bet and from that very day were ruined men. He declares that horse-racing now serves no good purpose, whatever it once did, and that spirit which ever seeks to get something for nothing is corrupting in its very nature, and he asks how much that has to do with graft, which District Attorney Jerome says is universal; how much it has to do with the bribe-giving and bribe-taking that is our national curse and peril. This evil thing, he declares, is gripping us tighter every day and corrupting the morals of the young; it is laying a heavier mortgage on the future of our people than any nation can well stand. And this is but one of the many disintegrating evils manifest in the national life of the world, tokens in the light of the Scriptures of the near-coming of Christ.