LOTTERY TICKETS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20626, 16 August 1932, Page 7

LOTTERY TICKETS.

LEFT IN CHURCH PEWS

Dr. Had lord, Bishop of Goulburn, New South Wales, addressing a large number of men at a Communion breakfast recently in connexion with the 75th anniversary of St. Matthew's Church, of England, stated that at a recent Communion service he spoke of tho evils of the State Lottery, and was pleased to find after the s o ™ l " s that*wo people in the church had left their lottery tickets on pews. Dr. Itadlord added that the conscience of every churchman should be affected in the same manner. It was not that they of the Church of lingland were killjoys or that tho people were not disposed to accept the conditions of life in the same manner as other people, but where their churclimanship meant anything to them, i imposed upon them the obligation o resisting a State policy which invited people to stake their chances of possessing the comforts of life on the mere spin of a marble m a lottery barrel. They must stand for wund moral principles in affairs of the State, especially when it was considered that £2 000,000 had passed through a game of chance instituted by the state GoverThe"responsibilities 'of churchmanship, the bishop said, were also 6 bv the fact that recently ,500,000 electors in New South ales voted for a Party which sponsored the state Lottery. It was improper to el V" o "^"'f ]people in their desire to get some thing for nothing