USE OF GAMBLING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1941, Page 4

USE OF GAMBLING

IN RAISING PATRIOTIC FUNDS CONDEMNED BY BISHOP OF WELLINGTON. DUTY RESTING ON CHURCH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Reference to recourse to gambling in raising patriotic funds was made by 7 the Bishop of Wellington (the Rt. Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland), when addressing the Diocesan Synod, which opened,, today. f "My experience in the last few months makes me stronger than ever in my conviction that one of the great objectives to which the churches must address themselves is the elimination of the gambling spirit from the heart of our people,” Bishop Holland declared. "Isn’t the real romance of money 7 to be found far more truly in the widow’s mite, or in the breaking of the alabaster box of ointment very much more precious than in a bottle of whisky 7 won in a raffle?” Speaking of church’s leadership, the Bishop said it must set itself to win the world around it back to God. To the church was committed the immense responsibility of maintaining, in a world in danger of losing them, the imperishable truths which, through its means. God had planted in the souls of men. The Church must witness bravely and constantly to the great ideal of nature and destiny which the world would never have known but for the life and death of Our Lord. When war conditions ceased to exist the church’s voice, on behalf of the human soul, must be heard above all competing voices. Meanwhile it was the uuty and glory of every Christian to. seek from the unseen strength for refusing at any cost to allow the State io detcimine what was good and what was evil or to dominate its citizens by man-made formulas.