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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 2, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 26.

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Gambling at Church Fairs

Judge Stewart, of Baltimore, in charging the grand jury in that city, referred to gambling at church fairs, and said: "The vice will probably continue until the people are educated up to the point that raffles at fairs will be considered an evil to be frowned upon, and chances in holiday presents as a thing to be avoided. The grosser forms of this vice are liable to punishment; and, when the business of gambling is carried on in violation of law, the duty to society requires that the offense should not be lightly passed over, but should be prosecuted." This is very wholesome talk, and all the better for coming from judicial lips.—Independent.