Lucretia B
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390 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lucretia B’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now the Methodist minister is ahead.
Now the Presbyterian leads, and now the Baptist.
But just at the last moment, when one of the ministers of the
Popular sect seem sure to get the prize, the members from some obscure denomination that do not deserve the prize come in and by a large contribution carry off for their minister the silver tea set.
Do you wonder that churches built, lighted, or upholstered by such processes?
forces as that come to great financial and spiritual decrepitude.
The devil says I helped build that house of worship, and I have as much right there as you have, and for once the devil is right.
We do not read that they had a lottery for building the church at Corinth or Antioch, or for getting up a gold headed cane, or for an embroidered surplus
palace for Saint Paul, all this I style ecclesiastical gambling.
More than one man who is destroyed can say that his first step on the wrong road was when he won something at a church fair.
The gambling spirit has not stopped for any indecency.
There lately transpired in Maryland a
A lottery in which people drew for lots in a burying ground.
The modern habit of betting about everything is productive of immense mischief.
The most healthful and innocent amusements of yachting and baseball playing have been the occasion of putting up excited and extravagant wagers that which to many has been advantageous to body and mind.
Has been to others the means of financial and moral loss.
The custom is pernicious in the extreme where scores of men in respectable life give themselves up to betting now on this boat, now on that, now on the Atlantics, and now on the athletics.
Betting that once was chiefly the accompaniment of the race course is fast becoming a national habit, and in some circles, any opinion advanced on finance or politics is accosted with the interrogatory.
How much will you bet on that, sir?
This custom may make no appeal to slow, lethargic temperaments, but there are in the country tens of thousands of quick, nervous, sanguine, excitable temperaments ready to be acted upon, and their feet will soon take hold on death.
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