to chance, to risk an illegitimate play. The person who is afraid to
risk anything accomplishes but little in any way, is seldom a
speculator, and never a gambler. Usually the gambler is the man
who is naturally full of hazard, who loves to run risks, to take chances.
Nor will one find a more practical and useful tendency in one's make-
up than this. See the discoverer of America and his brave crew for
days and days sailing across an unknown sea toward an unknown
land. But that was the price of a New World. Note the hazard and
risk of our Pilgrim Fathers. But they gave to the world a new
colonization. See the Second greatest American on his knees before
Almighty God, promising him that he would free four million of
slaves, providing General Lee should be driven back out of Maryland.
General Lee was driven back, and that immortal though most
hazardous of all documents, from man's point of view, was read to
his Cabinet and signed by Abraham Lincoln. All great men have
taken great risks. Not a section of the United States has been settled
without some risk. No business enterprise is launched without some
risk. To secure an education, to learn a trade, to marry a wife, all
involve some risk, much risk. The tendency to risk, to hazard, to
chance it is a practical and useful tendency. Only let this tendency
be governed always by wisdom and justice. No person ever became
a gambler until consciously or unconsciously he forfeited wisdom
and justice in his chances and risks.

Gambling takes a variety of forms. First of all is the professional
gambler. He has no other business. His investment is a "pack of
cards" and a box of "dice. See him with his long, slender fingers;
with his shaggy, unkempt hair; with keen eyes, and a sordid
countenance. He is prepared to "rake in" a thousand dollars a night,
and would not hesitate to strip any man of his fortune. The professional