It is, therefore, the bounden duty of fathers and mothers to be doubly watchful of their children, and by example, as well as precept, make them grow up with a horror of it.
Now, every description of gambling is a vice that cannot be too strongly condemned but when ministers of religion set such a dreadfully bad example as to have raffles at bazaars for religious purposes, how can we expect that the young will grow up without a taste for trying their luck.
That this evil is spreading there can be no doubt, and that, too, year after year, and is not nearly so much confined to men as it was, but women also go into sweeps, &c., to draw the winning horse in a race, or the first boat at a regatta or yacht race.
