MEN'S BROTHERHOOD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1044, 6 February 1911, Page 3

MEN'S BROTHERHOOD.

ADDRESS BY THE HON. G. FOWLDS. At tho Central Mission Men's Brotherhood meeting yesterday in tho Druids' Hall, an nddrdss was delivered by the Hon. Geo. Fowlds. Mr. W. J. Jordan presided over a large audience which included a number of ladies. Jlr. I owlds described some features of his rcccnt visit to South Africa and spoke Of. the change in tho country and its institutions that had occurred since lie left it twenty-live years ago. Rcierring to tho "Union now accomplished Mr. Fowlds remarked that when Sir George Grey advised Union 50 years ago, his advice was ncoutftl. Had it been taken war between the British and Dutch in South Africa would have boon averted. Speaking of the colour problem .Mr. Fowlds said ho had no hesitation in saying that if the white people had'no mission in South Africa to elevate the black people it was very doubtful if any justification existed for the presence of the whites in tho country at all. lio did not contend that the .blacks should bo given a literary education, but ihero was a class of people who would strongly condemn even an attempt to educate tho natives industrially or to. make of them anything but hewer's of wood and drawers of water. .Ho was glad to havo found in South Africa a growing number of people' in good positions who were sparing no pains in their endeavours to uplift and improve tho black races. Ho was. of; opinion that a good deal of tho suffering that' had come to white people in South Africa had come bccausc of tho wrongs inflicted on their black brethren. Concluding, Mr. Fowlds opined that visits such as ho had paid to South Africa in company with Mr. Fisher and Mr. Lemienx, of Canada, had a value in bonding and cementing the Empire together, a greater value perhaps than attached to any formal conference for tho discussion of specific subjects. At tho conclusion of his address Jlr. Fowlds was accord«:l a vote of thanks on tho motion of Mr. D. M'Laren, 31.P., Mr. W. S. Bedford seconding. Solos were rendered at intervals by Mrs. Lewis and Jlr. T. C.-Newton;