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Gamblers and Gambling

Chapter 7: HENRY ALTEMUS,
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The text offers a moral and practical critique of wagering, defining gambling as staking property on mere hazard and distinguishing it from honest skill and labor. It traces gambling's prevalence across social classes, professions, and locales, describes how casual play escalates into habitual vice, and portrays professional gamblers and their destructive influence on youth and communities. The author catalogs harms including financial ruin, deceit, and social degradation, and calls for parental vigilance, civic remonstrance, and moral reform to check a practice presented as corrosive to individual character and public welfare.

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ETERNAL LIFE SERIES.

Selections from the writings of well-known religious authors' works, beautifully printed and daintily bound in leatherette with original designs in silver and ink.

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ETERNAL LIFE, by Professor Henry Drummond.
LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY, by Rev. Andrew Murray.
GOD'S WORD AND GOD'S WORK, by Martin Luther.
FAITH, by Thomas Arnold.
THE CREATION STORY, by Honorable William E. Gladstone.
THE MESSAGE OF COMFORT, by Rt. Rev. Ashton Oxenden.
THE MESSAGE OF PEACE, by Rev. R. W. Church.
THE LORD'S PRAYER AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, by Dean Stanley.
THE MEMOIRS OF JESUS, by Rev. Robert F. Horton.
HYMNS OF PRAISE AND GLADNESS, by Elisabeth R. Scovil.
DIFFICULTIES, by Hannah Whitall Smith.
GAMBLERS AND GAMBLING, by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
HAVE FAITH IN GOD, by Rev. Andrew Murray.
TWELVE CAUSES OF DISHONESTY, by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
THE CHRIST IN WHOM CHRISTIANS BELIEVE, by Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks.
IN MY NAME, by Rev. Andrew Murray.
SIX WARNINGS, by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
THE DUTY OF THE CHRISTIAN BUSINESSMAN, by Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks.
POPULAR AMUSEMENTS, by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
TRUE LIBERTY, by Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks.
INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS, by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
THE BEAUTY OF A LIFE OF SERVICE, by Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks.
THE SECOND COMING OF OUR LORD, by Rev. A. T. Pierson, D.D.
THOUGHT AND ACTION, by Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks.
THE HEAVENLY VISION, by Rev. F. B. Meyer.
MORNING STRENGTH, by Elisabeth R. Scovil.
FOR THE QUIET HOUR, by Edith V. Bradt.
EVENING COMFORT, by Elizabeth R. Scovil.
WORDS OF HELP FOR CHRISTIAN GIRLS, by Rev. F. B. Meyer
HOW TO STUDY THE BIBLE, by Rev. Dwight L. Moody.
EXPECTATION CORNER, by E. S. Elliot.
JESSICA'S FIRST PRAYER, by Hesba Stretton.

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BELLES-LETTRES SERIES.

A collection of Essays and Addresses by eminent English and American Authors, beautifully printed and daintily bound in leatherette, with original designs in silver.

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INDEPENDENCE DAY, by Rev. Edward E. Hale.
THE SCHOLAR IN POLITICS, by Hon. Richard Olney.
THE YOUNG MAN IN BUSINESS, by Edward W. Bok.
THE YOUNG MAN AND THE CHURCH, by Edward W. Bok.
THE SPOILS SYSTEM, by Hon. Carl Schurz.
CONVERSATION, by Thomas De Quincey.
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT, by Matthew Arnold.
WORK, by John Ruskin.
NATURE AND ART, by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
THE USE AND MISUSE OF BOOKS, by Frederic Harrison.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE: ITS ORIGIN, MEANING AND APPLICATION, by Prof. John Bach McMaster (University of Pennsylvania).
THE DESTINY OF MAN, by Sir John Lubbock.
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP, by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
RIP VAN WINKLE, by Washington Irving.
ART, POETRY AND MUSIC, by Sir John Lubbock.
THE CHOICE OF BOOKS, by Sir John Lubbock.
MANNERS, by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
CHARACTER, by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW, by Washington Irving.
THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE, by Sir John Lubbock.
SELF RELIANCE, by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
THE DUTY OF HAPPINESS, by Sir John Lubbock.
SPIRITUAL LAWS, by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
OLD CHRISTMAS, by Washington Irving.
HEALTH, WEALTH AND THE BLESSING OF FRIENDS, by Sir John Lubbock.
INTELLECT, by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
WHY AMERICANS DISLIKE ENGLAND, by Prof. Geo. B. Adams (Yale).
THE HIGHER EDUCATION AS A TRAINING FOR BUSINESS, by Prof. Harry Pratt Judson (University of Chicago).
MISS TOOSEY'S MISSION.
LADDIE.
J. COLE, by Emma Gellibrand.

HENRY ALTEMUS,

507, 509, 511, 513 Cherry Street, Philadelphia.