THE BROTHERHOOD.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1801, 14 July 1913, Page 7

THE BROTHERHOOD.

Yesterday at the New Theatrt, at 3 pm., Mr. Vallance Cook addressed a gathering of between four or five hundred, his subject being "The New Age., The speaker stated that tho days of the 20th ceDtury would be tho greatest in the annals of the world. Tho problems that Were agitating the minds of .tho people wfere now only to be resembled to a child struggling in its cradlo, but, ere long, would move amid great events. There was a cry for a-new world, a new Gospel, and new theology. He mentioned that whilo he was addressing on' audience in London ho was disturbed three times hy a woman who wished to have votes for women." • What would our grandmothers have thought of such an act? The new age should appeal to old and young. Men ■were not at their best until seventy years of age—Dr. Clifford, John Wesley, and W. E. Gladstone, for instance-and (as General Booth said) he was "seventy-nine years young—not old." Wo did not need a new Bible. That was the most human and divino book in tho world. Wo did not need a new Gospel: the old had rescued multitudes. The wotUs greatest need was strongly-effective personalities— men, not measures. Silvester Home had astonished tho Lancastrians by saying that cotton was not the greatest product of Lancashire—men were needed more, find those that wished to be used to work out God's will upon the earth were the lives that would tell. . . Collections "were taken up on behalf ot Bister Alice's work for the Brotherhood. Tho Mission Band gavo selections, and tho poloist was Mr. Laycock.