Raffling in Church Fairs
By Editor
THE Christian Advocate (N. Y.) tells of a Presbyterian minister in New Jersey who opposed raffling in church fairs, and "his action made so much disturbance that he announced a few days ago that he should lay his resignation before the Presbytery." We have no doubt that there was quite a disturbance also in the temple when Jesus drove out the money-changers and them that sold doves. But he drove them out nevertheless. And yet their traffic was entirely decent and honorable as compared with raffling. Theirs were legitimate transactions anywhere except in the house of God, while raffling is nothing but gambling anywhere. Query: If that which was legitimate business anywhere else, made the house of God a den of thieves when transacted there, then what does that which is thieving everywhere make the house of God when conducted there?