THE OPEN COLUMN

New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3738, 12 May 1899, Page 7

THE OPEN COLUMN

THE ANGLICAN CHURCH AND • GAMBLING.

“Catholic”' writes id-In”your issue of Thursday, /'A Parent, 11 ’'whose' ancestors have t-mTEe: ChurchT: smceTthe time of the Reformation,, states that he lias been' obliged to‘ rentove- his children from tho Church Otvrmg-to its. teaching on gambling. This, gentleman, speaks as an outsider, asif the Church-wore some peculiar system quite apart from, himself. If this : has been'* histposition, his with-drawal-will 'not eddse Very much inconvenience or surprisfeT one interested, 1 should be iglad if dpi “Anxious: Parent” would refer metp thejteaching of which he complains, for as fan as I ,know there is no-such in the Prayer Book. Although not ready to accept; the individual teaching-, of an officer as that of the Church, I-should-bo glad it your correspondent would mformithe public in what church he has heard such teaching in favour of 'gambling as he Oompains of. ,As a-churchman,;. I should, adyisb “AParent” to make himself, acquainted,with the teaching'of the Church,;- and I must protest against people taking up the position- of outsiders -and; ‘ptofeasmg ! td Say, what the teaching -of■ the Church is, when - they know nothing about it. [“A Parent”; saidnothing .about the. teaching of the' Church’, hilt' referred to •its - ‘‘demoralising ..-influence, I’—Editor 1 ’—Editor “N;Z. Times”,’], - ■-• i w. / ... RED TAPEISM. I ’undorstdod' (vmtetr: ?i Di3gußted Democrat”) .that the municipal franchise had been extended to .householders, and seeing it- confirmed, in -your paper, I applied at the Council Chambers to get-put on the' roll ia.March lastcurtly infbVmied - that! I v c6ula Mot aqcdnuAo-da-ted until April tb'eMAth./ Whfcn' I next applied.■'L- wasy'tpld tho- roll was, closed,’ I read in'tho “Times” that the time had been extended to Malyithe ;15tlri So as it wasmy last opportunity'! wOnt down to-day-(Wednesday) and filled in a form, but on presenting it waS“ihformed, to my extreme disgust,, itojj Ifindlord’s. signature/ ..iAs it pn account of' the time being’ limited,' and not being the proverbial ’.bu?h 1 Jawypr,; I am consequently denied *niy rights', and pri- ■ vilegfea ay-a*citi2en'.'ih'>'Js ilii i u. :; 'kdcJtEStASi'ic®/- 12 ; Experience-‘has'nTaught me (writes “ Credo.’’), after twenty v.ears,and more of Home and ; forty-more' of'Colonial life',, something, Qfrtho.-ptprkipgfs 7 pi Episcopalian: leeches, which, cost ine no mean sum during creed, besides .spenqiafe portion of, tihie- in), exercising at. concerts,' bazaars, etc., my vocal abilities, which were of no mean order, as I possessed an exceedingly pure soprano r .yoiCo in .early life, which later on develops® into ft/rare countertenor or alto. ThOrefOi-n, it can be readily be J..hayp,-,pjne-,dp§ned knpwledge -of the fafyeffifa #©nM, of,, this topic/ at present exercising -the' public mind. I was-foip}eriy r »pott|Od “ mignon” of society,, and' sought ioE'hy all denominations when my purse was well-filled, my voice ;in *liigh“ton'ed)f6ttl©>'iand- 'D azealous, r active<: churchmkn;* -achoris ter and.an. honorary, auditor of church accounts. Bht immo.dmteiy Dame Fortune, “ fickle -iado,”, pounced upqn ,yno, when dire ‘ sickness,' and (pqn®uoiis misfortune ,dogged my footsteps/ the'nominally Christian churches, looking askance, “passed by on the other side.?-.’—. MARINE ENGINEERS. II Carbon ” makes, a, suggestion as follows :—To put into, practice the excellent advice given ,by Mr, D.enny, - will some of the engmeers give a short paper m the columns of your ■ paper on “ The Prevention of. Smoke/ 1 ; ; Also, a description of Meldrunds system of forced draught by a jet’ hT steam. ’ It is reprojsented as being" especially adapted for burning a very inferior fuel, with excel;lent results, , r ; , j “CONSUMPT? 1 OR “CONSUMPTION.” "R.A.” ‘ raises a question, thus:—Previous to your article-oa “-Increase in the Output of Gold” I had a conversation with two English educated gentlemen regarding word ‘‘censumpt’ 1 (I forget how it came’about), I 'Mid*They said that they never hoard;-of Tford in .the- En,glish language,,' two shilling edition of Nuttaß’s 'Dictionary*"being handy, it was turned ,up,: andr,th«KWpjrd was there. Ypur- can. fum up .their own and find, thd; ahowfef 5 Y I ’.met with two’ iPtlfM purchased a, jqpstlyi eqiwpif., I think), and was proud of it. TO them I put the question re the word; their answer was the saiiie- fliu Nev©riheard of it” j but I maintained-that it was an English word.'-r-The owner,of, tlw* diet jonary said if it was there, he would believe it. On turning- it«-’np,-fhe^'3WW ; d bfconldte Wot 1% found. Passing the Public Library latei on. I went to the reference room, and Mr Rowe kindly turned up all the dietionar ies (three different editions), and the word

was there.. I understand an expensive dictionary can bo had cheap now. [The word “consumpt” appears in oui two dictionaries—one of them an expensive American publication. The latter, curiously enough, declares "consumpt ■ to he a Scotticism. The' word is a handy one for writers on economic subjects, as it is a synonym for “the tota. amount consumed,” whereas “consumption” has a looser and more general meaning.—Editor “N.Z. Times.”]