THE CHURCH AND RACING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 March 1914, Page 4

THE CHURCH AND RACING.

Tlio Rev. Jasper Qalder, an Anglican clergyman of Auckland, lias been called to account by the Diocesan Social Questions Commission because he stated from the pulpit that hor.seracing had como to stay, and it would bo better for the Church to endeavour to make the sport a good, clean one than to display antagonism towards it. Tho T)ioces r an Commission has expressed regret that these utterance* whould have been made from the pulpit, and has indicated its disapproval by resolution. Presumably the objection is. that gambling is associated with horse-racing, la that a reason whv the Church should not endeavour to make the spoit good and clean? It is not long since thai raffles were common at church bazaars. Are we to condemn tho Church because it encouraged gambling? Wo have to take human nature very much as we iiiid it. ft ha*s yet to be proved that a man may not go to a race meeting, or to a bazaar for that matter, without having his morals corrupted.