PIOUS GRAB-BAGS AND SANCTIFIED SWINDLING.
"AND now," says the California Christian Advocate, "comes the time for church fairs and frolics, and mysterious and doubtful ways of getting money. Jacob's well and the pious grab-bag and the postoffice with excellent and truthful communications, and various and elegant and prudent devices for evading gambling laws, petty lotteries and systems of voting for the prettiest girl, or the most popular minister or candidate, or something else. We are not as well up in the literature and ways of such 'entertainments' as we might be, but they are all doubtless very beautiful, since they are baptized. Swindling and lotteries and games of chance are all sanctified if dedicated to a good purpose. * * * But let us keep out of the clutches of the law."