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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 19, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 15, No. 22.

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Lotteries.

By J. H. E.

Bro. Smith: The paragraph in Review No. 18, concerning the Delaware lotteries brought to my mind some lines that I saw in a newspaper thirty years ago, which ran thus:
"Of all who seek by bribes to lure, They most deserve the rod Who wring a fortune from the poor, Then give a part to God. Should not the wretches most abhorred Be hung as high as Haman, Who offer bribes unto the Lord, That he may wink at mammon." J. H. E.