Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Discourse on the Vice of Gambling: Delivered, by Appointment, to the Anti-Gambling Society of Transylvania University, November 2nd and 3rd, 1835
An object of no ordinary import has called us together. We are bound therefore to regard it with a cor responding degree 'of attention and interest. It concerns not merely the correctness and purity of our own lives, our safety from impending and manifold mischief, and the dis charge of a duty to a few of our contemporaries. No; its scope is much wider, and its end more momentous. Extend ing in its in?uence far beyond ourselves, and those with whom we are immediately connected, it involves the moral standing and general character of the community we live in, and bears prospectively on the interests of posterity. Ages hence, when we shall be forgotten, our descendants may feel it in their characters and fortu'nes. Nor is it limited in its action to sublunary concerns. The stamp and bias which the mind may receive from it, in its present state of existence, can hard ly fail to pass with it into another, and cling to it interminably.
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