Show A GAMBLING lifty and sixty ye irs ago tl e religious of this country were greatly agitated over tie of gambling an v is formed at 1 for the cupi of lotteries which tt ali it lime ind before were numerous ind u 1 to raise money tor tl e purposes of religion and charily public imi movements rove ments ind varl beneficial enterprises assault on gambling generally follow ed and the gamblin tt 13 ith the utmost violence by tl and oil er i re act era of the daiy diy ahe result atis tl eeli lot lediea by the law of nearly all tl e and the dormil formil denunciation of all gam bling by tho churches bo vas the sentiment ag ilist betting in ill its forms as li heren lly vicious and dia graceful thit attendance upon horse braces fell into disrepute among good people cards driven from pious households as implements of the devil and every man who gambled was look ed upon as a reprobate fales depict ing the terrible fate of gamblers and the ruin their wickedness brought to famille were ed and circulated widely Gai noling was treated as in itself i sin and in the books of bisci pline of nearly all tt e 1 rote sUnt de nominations it is mide a ground tor exclusion from alie communions comm unions during the lost generation gambling 1 as extended rapidly among tl e people and more esi with the grow th of the enthusiasm tor ledoor sports horse racing remains under fie social stigma no longer it may be that the revelations as to the baccarat gambling of the 1 rince of ties may start a new religious movement against gambling in bogli I 1 1 land and tins antry built cannot be without sports and destroying the i resent ten dimity to in all sorts of contests ts an 1 s aiom which baan g is nisei arable it must also extend to alie modern methods of doing business u i filhe of tl e i assion for gambin g |