Page 101 - 14 The Three Messages

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 14 – The Three Messages
lecture; but before he concluded, the young

man laid his hand upon his arm, and drew his

attention to a pile of splendid volumes that

stood upon the table. ‘Well,’ said the young

man, ‘these volumes were won by me at a fair

given in your church; they were my first

venture. But for that lottery, under the

patronage of a Christian church, I should

never have become a gambler.’”

A minister, B. F. Booth, speaks as follows in the

Golden Censer: —

“I hide my face in shame, when I hear of a

governor of a State being compelled to call

upon the law-making department of his State

to pass laws to counteract the swindling

carried on under the auspices of the church,

under the name of church fairs, festivals, and

other forms of ‘pious’ church gambling.”