GAMBLING

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1407, 6 April 1912, Page 12

GAMBLING

[ ADDEESS BY BISHOP CEOSSLET. (Bt TektraDh.-SDMIiU CorTcinonilcnl.l Auckland, April 3. Tho question of gambliiig was touched upon briefly by the Anglican Bishop of 'Auckland (Dr7 Cro'ssley) (luring his midday address to-day. Tho remarks arose out of a reference to tho men who gambled beneath, tho Cross durinu tho crucifixion. "I wonder," observed the Bishop, "whether there will bo any gambling'in Auckland on Good Friday?" He would not say, he proceeded, that to make a bet was to commit a sin. Tho Commandments were enough to him on that point, "but I do appeal to you young men of Auckland," he said, "on this question of gambling, to read what I think is ono of the finest things ever written—Charles Kinsley's letter to Iris sou when ho wrote to him from school, and told liiin that he had backed a horse for the Derby. Then having read the words of one of tho sanest men that ever lived, ask yourself, "Do I want my boy to be a gentleman?" Is it being a gentleman to tako someone else's money? You may say that the other person has a chanco to win, but it is nevertheless a dirty and low way of making money." Tho Bishop said ho knew, of course, that thero was a bit of sport about it, but if those who heard him had witnessed such sights as ho had witnessed in connection with the wrecking of flno young lives by yielding to this insatiable hunger for gambling , , ho thought they would be wise enough to pay they would have nothing to do with it.'"