More about Gambling
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article551
- Author
- Gallagher, William James, 1894-1964
- Christian Social Council of Canada
- Heywood, Bernard Oliver Francis, 1871-
- Judd, William Wallace, 1883-1981
- Silcox, C.E. (Claris Edwin), 1888-1961
- Summerhayes, Thornton Frank, 1874-1960
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Bulletin [Council for Social Service]
- Date
- 1946 June 1
- Author
- Gallagher, William James, 1894-1964
- Christian Social Council of Canada
- Heywood, Bernard Oliver Francis, 1871-
- Judd, William Wallace, 1883-1981
- Silcox, C.E. (Claris Edwin), 1888-1961
- Summerhayes, Thornton Frank, 1874-1960
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1946 June 1
- Issue
- 127
- Page
- 1-12 p.
- Notes
- "Bulletin No. 96, on `Gambling', had a wider circulation than any we have issued with the exception of No. 103 which dealt with the Malvern Conference. The subject must gave been interesting and the Bulletin must have been helpful to clergy and others. The supply has long been exhausted. For this reason we issue another dealing with the same subject. There is another reason. During the war some forms of gambling have involved more and more people. These included lotteries and games of chance, most of them arranged for patriotic purposes. Most of these were illegal and carried -- carried on in defiance of the Criminal Code of Canada. .... Some people and some group do not want it stopped ! Careful thought, therefore, should be given by the Canadian people as a whole and stern measures should be taken by those whose duty it is to see that the law is obeyed. Already, too, pressure has been brought to bear on Government to amend the Code, to extend the opportunities of gambling. (See Resolution of Executive Council and C.S.S., 1945, quoted later in this Bulletin.) The pressure is not occasional: it is persistent ! Citizens generally and their representatives in Parliament and in Legislature should be conscious of the grave menace to the moral fibre of our people and aware of the many other social and economic disasters which will ensue if such a spirit triumphs. To inform our Church people and other readers of these dangers, often unrecognized by them, we publish this Bulletin. The leading article will, we trust, be helpful to our clergy in their teaching. The Compendium which follows it draws lessons from the past in our country and abroad. The experience of others over the years, indeed over the centuries, should help us to estimate the dangers of gambling to persons, families and societies, and should point out the fallacies of the many weak arguments advanced by the unthinking people who participate in the practice. We are grateful to the Reverend Summerhayes for his article and for most of the work of publishing this Bulletin. Mr. Summerhayes, now retired, was until recently Secretary of the Toronto Diocesan Council for Social Service". -- Foreword.
- Contents: Foreword / W.W. Judd -- Part I : Gambling: Law Versus License / T.F. Summerhayes -- Part II : A Compendium -- Pertinent Books in the Council's Library -- Recent Books in the Council's Library.
- Contents of Part II: A Compendium include: I: Recent Pronouncements, Church of England in Canada -- II: Concerning Gambling in Churches / Dr. Heywood, Bishop of Ely, 1936 -- Religious Sanctions / W.W. Judd -- Gambling and Religious Traditions / C.E. Silcox -- III: From the Annual Report of the General Secretary of the Christian Social Council of Canada / W.J. Gallagher, January 1946 -- IV: Gambling in General : Areas of Gambling / W.W. Judd. -- Another Attempt at Ottawa: From an Editorial from the Toronto Daily Star May 14, 1946.
- Subjects
- Gambling - Canada
- Gambling - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Gambling - Law and legislation - Canada
- Lotteries - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Stock exchange - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Sweepstakes - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Location
- General Synod Archives