If you have a deck of cards and a Bible in your home, throw the deck in
the alley. Either throw the cards out and keep the Bible, or throw out the
Bible and keep the cards.
What’s the difference between a game of cards and a game of checkers? Just
as much difference as between heaven and hell.
It is said nine-tenths of the gamblers are taught in their homes by their
mothers, and 80 per cent by Christian people.
I believe that cards and dancing are doing more to damn the spiritual life
of the church than the grog-shops, though you can’t accuse me of being a
friend of that stinking, dirty, rotten, hell-soaked business.
I believe more people backslide on account of the social side than on
account of the saloon.
Lots of church members have cards on their tables as often as food.
A billiard table is the first cousin to a saloon.
The saloonkeepers and gamblers laugh every time they read the announcement
of a euchre or card party in the newspapers, for they know it will only be
a question of time until they get the players.
You have no right to find fault with the city officials because they don’t
suppress gambling when it is carried on right in your home.
[Illustration: WAITING FOR THE OPENING OF THE TABERNACLE.]