13 JUNE 1914, Page 15

[To TB. Elmo. 01 TUN .. BP3CSATOB...]

Sitt,—If the immorality of betting is not clear to the Quaker mind, is the Quaker conscience less keen than when Whittier wrote (from "The Quaker of the Olden Time ")?—

" With that deep insight which detects All groat things in the small,

And knows how each man's life affects The spiritual life of all, He walked by faith and not by sight, By love and not by law;

The presence of the wrong or right He rather felt than saw.

He felt that wrong with wrong partakes, That nothing stands alone, That whose gives the motive, makes His brother's sin his own.

Ind, pausing not for doubtful choice Of evils great or small, He listened to that inward voice Which called away from alL"