PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16545, 19 November 1915, Page 8

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

(Per United Pbess Association.) AUCKLAND, November 18. At the Presbyterian Assembly to-day it was resolved that tho Assembly deplored that horse-racing should absorb so much of tho country's attention in so serious a crisis in the Empire's affairs. It regretted that the authorities, in Parliament and out of it, so far from discouraging it, were, in the opinion of tho Presbytery, seemingly en couraginp it and every form of gambling, especially raffling, by legislation and by tho support of their presence at race meetings Tho Rev. 11. Inglis strongly condemned tho gambling which, he said, "was associated with the Auckland Patriotic Carnival. The Assembly passed a resolution with great enthusiasm, expressing loyalty to thp King, and stating that it was more firmly than ever persuaded that the cause of Britain and her Allies was the cause of righteousness, freedom, and the kingdom of God, and deprecating all thojight of the cessation of hostilities till the evil power of German militarism, had been utterly broken and the rights of the nations despoiled by the invader fully restored.