Gamblers and Gambling

Gamblers and Gambling by Henry Ward Beecher are about gambling and its harmful effects on gambling addicts. As a minister, Beecher argues against the use of gambling as an addictive pastime. Excerpt: "I have condensed into one account the separate parts of this gambling transaction as narrated by each evangelist. How marked in every age is a Gambler's character! The enraged priesthood of ferocious sects taunted Christ's dying agonies; the bewildered multitude, accustomed to cruelty, could shout; but no earthly creature…"