id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 34743 Beecher, Henry Ward Gamblers and Gambling .txt text/plain 8681 558 80 Gambling is the staking or winning of property upon mere hazard. bets and wagers, and the gambling of games of hazard. the jury, and the bar, shuffled cards by night, and law by day--dealing to a gaming-house, but, with apparent kindness, warned not to play. When _playing_ becomes desperate _gambling_, the heart is a hearth where this, what does it amount to but this, that men who _really_ gamble, gambling which includes the _roping-in_ of strangers, young men, When a man _begins_ to gamble he is as a noble tree To every young man who indulges in the least form of gambling, I raise a Playing is the seed which comes up gambling. which you play but the _excitement_ of the game? and Judges are gamblers, with what hope do we warn off the young from GAMBLERS AND GAMBLING, by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. ./cache/34743.txt ./txt/34743.txt