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| cect. H. ROSE |

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GAMBLING
AND

CHRISTIAN
IDEALS

CECIL H. ROSE
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GAMBLING

AND

CHRISTIAN IDEALS

By
CECIL H. ROSE, M.A.

Forewor d by
HENRY CARTER

London
THE EPWORTH PRESS
J. ALFRED SHARP

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First Edition, 1930,

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War

RINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
Wick (Bedford), Ltd., Brprorp.
CONTENTS

PAGE
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FOREWORD - - -
PREFACE ~ - = = = i <5phy?
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - - = = - 10
CHAP.
I. Tue APPROACH TO THE Question - - - Il
II. Tue CHRISTIAN STANDARD - 2 - Al
III. GaMBLING AND THE CHRISTIAN IDEAL - - 34
TV. GAMBLING AND THE CHRISTIAN IDEAL
(Continued) - - - - - 46
V. Some PracticaL PROBLEMS - - = = i)
VI. ON PROPAGANDA - - = zs “ =A7 3
APPENDIX—THE DECLARATION - - - 83
BIBLIOGRAPHY BY E. BENSON PERKINS - - 88

FOREWORD

BrEttine and gambling have increased greatly in
volume since the war. New modes have been
popularized by the daily press. Even charity has
sometimes sought the aid of the gambling habit in the
raising of funds for hospitals. The State, in quest
of new sources of national revenue, has experimented
with the Betting Tax. The totalisator, or mechanical
bookmaker, has been installed on numerous race-
courses.

One cause of this rapid growth of the gambling
habit is unquestionably to be found in the restlessness
and venturesomeness which mark the post-war period.
The war upheaved the world of thought and emotion.
Throughout this generation men and women will
accept risk and uncertainty more readily, less fearingly,
than did men and women in pre-war days. In such
an atmosphere the appeal to chance and luck is at
one with the dominant mood of the multitude.

Yet in quarters where a more reflective view
prevails, and in particular among young men and
women on quest for the ideal meanings of life, the
gambling habit is under criticism. Its deliberate
commercial exploitation—illustrated by the establish-
ment of greyhound racing tracks where the making
of bets is the main concern—is challenged and scorned
by the finer minds of the new generation. The real
argument centres in another field of experience. Is

gambling, occasional and not habitual, well within
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THE FIGHT AGAINST
THE BETTING EVIL

A Crumpet Call to You.

By the Rey. PETER GREEN, M.A., Canon of Manchester,
Chaplain to H.M. the King.

soldier, recently demobilized, complained
rather bitterly to the Minister of the church
at which he had been brought up, that the churches
seemed to have no use for the men ‘back from the
front. Many men, he declared, had returned to

REOUE a year after the Armistice, a young

” civil life full of zeal and eagerness to work for a

better and nobler life. But, just because they did
not feel drawn to the work of teaching in Sunday
School, the churches seemed to have nothing for
them to do, but turned down all their offers of ser-
vice, chilling their zeal and enthusiasm.

The Minister promptly replied: ‘‘ There need
be no difficulty of that kind in your case. I'll find
you a job, a splendid job; one worth doing, and one

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