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At a funeral of an Atlantic City gambler, the pastor asserted, "Spike is not dead; he only sleeps." From Spike's gambling friends in the congregation came a voice that said, "I've got $100 that says he's dead!" Some people say Lady Godiva was the world's greatest gambler because she put everything she had on a horse. Ponder these two evaluations of gambling. Newspaper columnist, Heywood Broun, wrote: "The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil." However, a Christian pastor, J. Wallace Hamilton, found a deeper significance in gambling.