GAMBLING AND CHURCHMEN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 619, 23 September 1909, Page 4

GAMBLING AND CHURCHMEN.

Sir,— Kea'drng'your "paper day by'dayl can> not 'help but ;notjce the attitude token up by' tile dift'orent-mir.rsters of religion'on the speeches made by' Ministers of- tho- Crown at tho opening, of Tatterstills,'Cluli, ' I don't'soe-why' they should denounce people for doing what they like, •or . interfere with ■ the , public as long abide: by, tho la\V : of the land. If thejo. people don't belong to tho same flock as : tho parsons flo, : why should these parsons trynnd sh'epher'd them? ~.f-" : - Take one text, which you will find in the Sermon on the Mount, .Matthew, vii. Chapter, verses 1, 2, 3, and, i. "First cast the beam out of thine own eye, „the'n shalt' thou' see' clearly to. cast'.out tho moat ,out' of ■ thy brother's eye." . "Now, taking into consideration the. fact, that the ministers of religion class themselves as being, "all one in. Christ," all one, and. we; who are jiist a. wee bit outside their flock, are their brothers. Then, I say, first cast the beam out of thine own.eyo. It is but:two'weeks ago that I saw a picture in Tin; Dominion of tho ; Christian Endeavour Committee. Among that committee were ministers of religion, and there satside by sido with these reverend . gentlemen a... gentleman who owns racehorses,.goes to races, and .at the present, time has one, if not. more, in bis control.-'-Now, cleanse youi' own flock first and "let your light so sbino among men, a.bright light,without any blurs or spots,,eo we. can see our way clearer, ond then wo.mov follow. -I am,, etc., Y.'M.C.A. .

•I'.S.—Racing is'the best thing out, to put a man-on his- feet:, •He rides- out-to the 'races; and often- -has to walk home.—T;M.C.A. '