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"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shall not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor hia man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his a«, nor anything that is thy neighbour's." At the commencement of this discourse, I want to say that though it was suggested by the Iwoman Catholic Lotte''y, advertised for Nov. 9th, 1 do not intend to make an attack on persons, but to unfold a great principle, which is laid down in the tenth commandment, and which is emphasized and detailed in both our Dominion and Provincial Laws. Our Omniscient and All-wise God knew the real nature of man's heart, when amid the thunderings and lightnings of Sinai, He wrote the lO commandments on the tables of stone. He knew that through disobedience the human heart had become deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. He knew that every imagination of the thoughts of man's heart was only evil continually. He knew that at the very root of man's spiritual nature there was a carnal, solHsh spirit, which under favourable circumstances would bear the fruits of innumerabla vices. And with this knowledge of the downward trend of the soul, the Divine Being gave ua the ten commandments, which are prohibitory of the worst sins of mankind. He there prohibited Idolatry, Profanity, Sabbath-breaking, Parental disobedience. Murder, Adultery, Stealing, Slander, and finally Covetousness. Moat people agree in naming the first 8 things prohibited, ai vices that ought to be prohibited, but many of those same people are slow in pronouncing covetousness as being a vice of a very dark type, and certainly act in relation to it, as if it were allowable. IJut if such persons will take the trouble to trace effects to their right causes, they would find that this prohibited sin of covetousness is the cause of more worry, misery, and degradation than any of the evils forbidden in the Decalogue, or than all put together. Do men steal a bank, like Eno whom I saw in Quebec two or three weeks ago, or forge a cheque H it is because of the coyetous natuie of their ungodly hearts. Do men or women commit adultery ? It is because they covet that which they are forbidden to touch. In Mark, 7. 20-28, our l^ord associates covetousness with the same vices that are forbidden in the Ten Commandments. In Rom. I. 20-32, the Apostle Paul classes it with the very worst of iniquities. In 1 Tim. (5. 9-10, he says, " Hut they that will be rich, fall into temntation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and peKlition. For the love of money is the root of all evil ; which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." From July 1888 to July 1889, in the United States there were 10, 79 J business failures, with liabilities aggregating more than $1 -'{3,(^)0,000, averaging about ^12,000 each. At the base of nearly every one of these fail- ures, was this worm of oonvetouaness which was slowly but surely accomplibhing its deadly and ruinous work. Who shall say how manv of those businerts mei lived a long way beyond their incomes, I fid/>^ because their covetous eye? could not l)ear to see tlieir weaUliier nei^'hlniurs living in (jrvander style than they? Det^liire if yon dare, how nniny t>f thes*^ men were driven intck- in oiis by )t'r, iiat fltirs up all tho cftrnality of the human heart, and api^ealf to the ftUin:berinjr covetous nature of his old self. I ask you intelliyrent men and wcuoii. w'lat is tlie diH'eivnce between a ten cent lottery ti('ket, and be \yho stakee ten cents at a jmme of cards? In both cases they speculate with a little with the hope of ^^ettini^ more for nothin!"-. They both put down their money with the desire oi obtaining other people's money Avithout earninj^ it. in both oases the same ba^«e motives are furnished, and the same carnal nature is npp^aled to; and those who win, have the same feelings haunting them, that they have unritrhteously, ille;rally received what they have no honorable rijiht to. They both realize that they have broken God's holy law and violated the law of the land, for their conscience is a witness against them, and conscience is always on the side of God and ri«.»ht laws. I)o not not think that I am going to paint the Romanists black and the Protestants white in this matter of lotteries, nofr must those who live in jf lass houses throw stones at their neighbours. When I was in Weytuouth last year I 'saw a billon a church, and while waiting f«>r the train I read it. It was advertised a social to which so much was charged tor admission. Each porson admitted was to have a vote concerning a gold-headed cane, whicli was to be presented to the most ponular man in Weymouth. It is humiliating to think of Protestants resortitig to a sly sort of a lottery as that lor the purpose of making money. I suppose the originator of that scheme thought it would l>e a degree more respectable than the real out and out lotteries resorted to by other re- presentatives of Christianity. Occ,'.8ionally raffles for articles at Protestant bazaars, have been reported, and with shanie I have to confess that such reports have had good foundtition. At those raffles a person has paid five or ten cents lor a " chance " of receiving in return an article worth many dollars. These gambling schemes and many other methods for raising money by Protestants have lowered the spirituality of the churches, have degraded them from the high plane as protestors against the corruptions of Rome, and have dishonored the glorious name of our blessed Lord and Sa\iour. If the Lord Jesus wtire to return to earth to-day, I am sure that lie would use the whip of small cords again, and clear out all the money making schemes in vogue in Protestant churches to-day. He would certainly find reason for repeating the language uttered bv Him, when He turned over the tables of the money-changers, and drove out the bazaar from the Temple, when He said, " take thksk thinos henck ; makk not my fathkii's housk a HOUSK OF MKRCHANDI8E." The Baptists hre freer from this raffling abonnnation than any of the five great protestant bodies and therefore I can with more consistency take the position I d't this evening on this subject. There have bion rsifflesat Baptist Rnzaars, but it is a long time since I heard of one. And I hope that we have swept this ungodly business out ot our churches forever. The Lottery before the people ot Yarmouth to-day is one of the ii#8t flagrant breaches of the law. of which I have yet heard. Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia, 1884, Part III, appendix A. pp. 25, 8th paragraph. " WhoFoever shall undertake or set up, or shall by writing or printing, publish the undertaking or setting up of any lottery or raffle for money or goods, with the intent to have such lottery or raffle drawn or thrown, or to induce persons to j)urchase tickets or to give money or other valuables for any such lottery or raffle, or shall play, throw or draw at sucli lottery or raffle, or shall purchase any lot or ticket for any such lottery, or shall take part in any such raffle, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty dollars; and in default of payment shall be committed to jail for a* period not exceeding thirty days." Revised Crinnna I Law of Canada, 1887, pp. o6. " Hev Majesty, by and with the ac1pi« that they will fine or imprison any one who buys a lottery ticket. Wiiat more could they do ': Yet in the face of the sublime law of (iod proliibiting covetoiisnesa. and the l'rovin» ij.l and Dominion lAws f)rohibitin{^ lotl!erieH, there are men so regardless of both (lod's and num's laws that they set up a ottery, and trumpet it abroad with as much boldness, as if the scheme liad tlie 8anctit>n of (ilod and the approval of Her Majesty's government. This open and defiant breaking; of our laws* would not be so dama^'ing lo the morals of the people, if it were done by men ol the world only. If it were confined to such a set of gamblers as thart of the Louisiana, which is engineered bv f, because it requires no sleight of hand, no knowledge of trickery, so that a child can participate in it We all know that our young men learn gambling quite soon enough and easily enough from their ungodly seniors without the aid of a so railed church. Gambling is carried on to an alarming'^xtwnt among the young men ut our town, and instead of a church lending ite influence:to establish them more firmly in gambling habitfl, heaven surelv expects ihii its pretended reprrtaentatives would help to save the young from i»\\- iiig Jjuo it ganib'.t-r's ^mve, anda gauibler'i'h^ir Had this bo ..11 Ih* n;:.t gn¥te- vialatio.n of our law by a so called church, we might have been more inclined to pass it by, but for years this church has pursued this un^fodly method of raising money for assumed religious purposes. This is the second Lottery that it has set up in thi« town during my four years residence in Yarmouth. And- all over this Dominion from Lalifax tatf*ort Moody it has followed the same gambling course for raising money, almost from time immeaiorial. Surely it is time that the law be carried out, and our community saved from the disreputable commotions created every now and then by the launching of a huge lottery. If the law were executed as it should be, not ouly would the originator, but also every person who buys a ticket for a lottery would liave to pay a fine of $40 or go to jail for 30 days. If every man, woman, and child who buys a ticket for a lottery, were fined $iO, or in default were each sent to jail for 30 days, as the law directs, the lottery managers would soon find it necessary to ad )pt some more honorable and honest method for raising money for so-called religious purposes. This proper execution of the law would soon put an end to these disgraceful gambling schemes. 1 appeal to you Protestants to be true to your God, your Bible, and your conscience, and discounte- nance this lottery abomination whether Protestant or Catholic. Bo willing to lose customers from yours business, be yours a grocery, furniture, dry goods, medicine or any other business, rather than by the purchase of lottery tickets you make it possible for your boy to throw it up into your face, that you encouraged gambling. God save us and our children from the blighting power that teaches that men may do evil that good may come, and that " the end justifies the means." Upon every brick ofa churc'i built with money gained by gambling there is written in invisible letters '* Anathema Maranatha" ' C