Show GAMBLING IS SCORED New York Preacher Refers to Games Among Fashionable People New York March 11 The Rev Dr William Huntington said in the course ourse of his sermon preached pren hed before the th New I England society of New York in Grace church last night What are these stories we hear about the spread of an uncontrollable le passion for gambling Is it possible that hat there are leaders of society who lend end their countenance to of amusement that are against the Lite very laws aws of the land It mav may be hard bard to frame an ar meet ment against t gambling that will hold holdin holdin in n logic but lives speak sp ak louder than any syllogism s Is it I t true that hosts are found In n fashionable life who will vili let young oung men whose honesty is their capital depart impoverished by losses at cards out of the drawing rooms into which they have themselves invited them as guests If it be betrue true I cry shame Is it true that young Oung women reputed to o be of good family and honest bring brIngIng leg Ing ng up exhibit with pride the jewels bought out of the profits of the gaming table Could anything be more vulgar than such acts as these Nay that is isa isa isa a feeble word Could any anything thing be more infamous What avails a crusade against pol policy policy icy shops and pool rooms moms whether by five fifteen or fifty if behind doors which no detective ventures to pass such things as these go on Is there no need Deed of the spirit of discipline Dr Huntington asked What That then is to tp become of society With Sunday lapsing into a mere tra tradition with the tha day which a New Eng England England England land mystic m not to Chris Christianity Christianity Christianity made bold to call the backbone of our civilization turned by common consent from front a holy day too ton holiday with marriage the corner stone of the family life Ufe which in its turn is the corner stone of the state with holy wedlock degenerating into mere there fast and loose contract and with love of or pleasure so omnipresent and omnipotent tent as to have obliterated the very landmarks of decency who ho shall say that the call for a revival of the spirit of discipline is Why Yh do I draw my mv illustrations from the life of women rather than men Simply for the reason that in Christian lands and nowhere more con conspicuously conspicuously conspicuously than in the United States Stateswomen Stateswomen Stateswomen women are ate the custodians of morals Here however It may be elsewhere men are largely what the influence of women makes them and the more rap rapidly rapIdly rapIdly idly the ilie men desert public worship substituting the club and the lodge for forthe forthe forthe the house o of prayer the more is this supremacy of woman as the priestess of sacred interests and the arbiter of conduct accentuated and defined |