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And the Serpent said unto the worgan ye shall not surely die."-GENESIS

The question may be asked "Is it wrong to bet?" I myself should hesitate to say that it is necessarily wrong in every case. But I should say that it is always dangerous and it may be very wrong. I remember when Bishop Norris of North China conducted a misaiên here in 1916. At one of the meetings he was asked if it was wrong to play cards for Boney and his reply was to the effcer that it was not necessarily wrong but it We have just heard the old fatciliar was dangerous. But he thought the dan-! story of Paradise Lost The writer seeks ger could be avoided by making a rule to explain how sin and misery found their to give all your winnings to charity. way into the world and he pats his answer And if you did that you would never into the form of a story. The details of become a gambler. Very often people the story are not to be taken literally will tell you that they do not be in but symbolically, and so understood they order to win money but in order to have are wonderfully true to human experi- an interest in the race and to get a little ence. A modera commentator on the excitement. If that is the case let them

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is the representative of the human race will not become gamblers. But I am very The story of his temptation, fall and cou- sceptical on that subject. I bolleve 99 sequent forfeiture of Paradise shadows per cent. of the people who bet"do it in forth some of the greatest mysterios of the hope of getting money, money remem the human lot, the strangely mingled ber for which they have given no value, glory and shame of man, his freedom of and done no work. And I think that action, the war between the law in his very often the man who wins a large members and the law of his mind. It sum by betting is to be pitied even more thus contes to have a universal signific- than the man who loses, for if he is ance and shows each mau, as in a mirror, unaccustomed to have such a large sum his own experience. When he reads, this of money at his disposal it is very ikely narrative, his conscience says to him, to be his ruin. like a prophet of God: "Thou art the man: the story is told of thee!" We take the story of Eden as an allegory and not as history, and we need not think that. this is a new idea for Origin, an early Christian writer so fegarded it.

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Betting is undeniably causing an un- told amount of misery in England to-day. The tempter may whisper to you that for you it has no danger. That it will do

no barn to go in for a sweepstake or to back the pony you fancy, bat remen- The story shows us evil coming into her that even if it does you no harmı the human race. The, Serpeat introduces your example may encourage someone it. It was not the product of the buwan else to do it and that person may be heart but came from outside. But it led to his ruis, and you are your brother's If your object in betting is found in the human heart some thing keeper. which was attracted by it. The Serpent simply to have a little excitement then begha y suggesting a doubt of God's make a resolve to give your windings to goodocss. He approached the woman as some charity, but if it is to get some- the weaker of the two, and he exagger thing for nothing then realise that the ates the prohibition. And the woman love of money is the root of all kinda listens to him. Instead of being shocked of evil. There are I know some people at the imputation made by the Serpent who take great interest, in races yet against God, she allows her eyes to dwell never bet. May their number increase ! on the forbidden fruit, and its attrae. But it cannot be denied that as a rule tions prove too great. God's warning horse races everywhere are accompanied was forgotten. She ate the forbidden (and to my mind ruined) by a tremendous fruit nod gave to her husband. And the amount of betting, which arouses the the worst passions and the most ugly tem- first result of disobedience was

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ledge brought shame. "It is a parable doubtedly responsible for much evil in of every singer's, experience. In every the world to-day and we shall do well temptation there are an exciting cause to avoid these evils. They do not bring without and an answering inclination out the best but the worst of a person's within; every act of submission to tempta. character, and the safest plan for a tion is a choice exercised by the will, and Christian is to avoid a practice so fraught with evil-and which has brought so. the result of sin is an uneasy conscience

many to ruin and misery. You cannot and a haunting sense of shame."

serve God and" Mammon, though there have always been many people who have tried to do so. It is because so many professing Christiane are trying to necomi plish this impossible feat that the werk of God's Kingdom does not go forward as it ought.

We are all subject to temptation and temptation is not sin. Our Blessed Lord was tempted but refused to yield to the temptation. And we too can do as He did and not "follow the example of Eve. If she had at once gone away from the tempter all might have been well It is a very dangerous thing to think over a temptation. The more we think of it-the more familiar it becomes, and the less terrible it appeary. Beware of the danger. of cherishing a temptation. Do not dally with it and let it occupy your thoughts, but got right away from it at once if you can. Very often when some one has surprised and, shocked the world by committing some crime or sin of which Do one thought him capable, it is the result of thinking over a temptation in- stead of banishing it at once. Unknown to all about him the man has dwelt upon the temptation and what seems to the world a most surprising fall is the natural result of hagging a temptation. Many temptations are a result of idleness. The old Hymn taught a true, lesson when it said "Satan Ends some mischief still for idle hands to do." Very often the best antidote for temptation is more occupa tion. Everyone ought to have some, work to do and be able to maintain himself by it. Even if parents have money enough to support their children in idle- ness it is much better for them and for the community to give them an occupa- tion. It was the rule of the Jews that every boy however wealthy, should learn a trade, and is these days of equality of the sexes it ought to be the rule that every giti na well as every boy should be. taught some means of earning a living and filling a useful place in the com- munity instead of merely cumbering the ground. There is one form of temptation which may be a very real one to some people here this week. I suppose no one cac have any objection to Races in them-. #cives, Horso and pony racing is a per- good form of but seems

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PSYCHICAL QUEST.. PRIMATE ON THE NEEDS OF THE YEAR.

In his New Year's message to the clergy and laity of the diocese of Can terbury the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Randall Davidson) says he detects the trend of the hour to be a growing sense of unity, which demands expres

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Thinkers and scientists,are now linked in a common quest. He says:

"The body of man is no longer ad- equately studied until the student brings to it the consideration of things psychical and even spiritual.

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New Year, at centre after cen men are waking to the call. Jerusalem itself is, we are told, to sce a great gathering of the Churches of East. Rome has its

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It would be foolish to deny that both in social and in religious fields our "will to unity has to face deter mineil antagoniams.

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