THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH ON BETTING.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Kindly permit me to say. that whatever else I may have done in the matter of my recent utterance. on betting and gambling, I certainly have not tried "to hedge," or to "water it down."
The words you quote from my letter on the subject are simply a quotation from my original speech, with the omission, by accident, of the word "often," Betting does not always, but it does often bring us near to gambling; and therefore I said that "it is wiser and safer never to bet." I may have been right or wrong in saying this, and I admit that on so difficult a question it is quite possible, and even easy, to be mistaken.
But "hedging" and "watering down" is a mistake, or rather a fault, of which I do believe that I have never been guilty. I fear that my fault has been mostly in the opposite
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