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Gamblers and Gambling

by Henry Ward Beecher

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Starting with soldiers casting lots for Christ's clothing, Henry Ward Beecher turns a biblical episode into a forceful lecture against gambling. He distinguishes useful paid work from gains based on chance, then extends his argument from card tables and wagers to speculative commerce. Gambling appears across his social picture, from hotels and riverboats to shops, courts and government offices. A young man's first small stakes develop into an encounter with a seemingly helpful stranger and a costly night at a gaming house.

The later passage examines drinking, dishonest play and the coordinated tricks used to draw inexperienced people into games. Beecher's language is heated, religious and openly judgmental, with appeals to parents, citizens and ministers to oppose the habit.

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Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregational minister, lecturer, and public speaker whose sermons and addresses made him a highly visible religious figure of the nineteenth century. Eulogy on General Grant records the address he delivered on October 22, 1885, after the death of Ulysses S. Grant. Archival holdings at the Ulysses S.

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Pages
24
Language
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