THE BROTHERHOOD MOVEMENT.
ITS RELATION TO THECHURCHES. At a large Brotherhood meeting in London vpe?ntly the Rev. IC. Aiflom Frcm-li dealt vvifcli the familiar question of tho relationship between the Brotherhoods mid tho Churches. He laid stress on the point that no aggressive work of lmieh value can be accomplished nowadays without risk to those who engage in it. Every organisation of a combative chaocte.r must ba beset with danger and risk, and the. Brotherhood movement was at this moment, confronted with a very real and menacing danger. "1 believe we sltal! escape it and overcome it," he said, "but you have sot to tho parting of the ways. You may bo a great Christian movement, or you may he a great social movement.; hut this Brotherhood movement was intended to be, first ;snd last, a Christian movement."
Tho speaker went' on to warn the. Brotherhood men before him that they would have io bo careful about their connection with the churches. He know tliero were some people who thought it mattered little whether they went, to church so long as they lived the Christian life. He thought, however, (hat tho Brotherhood men shouid enter into close fellowship with their fellow-Chris-tians within tho cSnrrciies, for tho mutual strengthening of all the. members in the service of God and humanity.
The concluding sentences of Mr. French's address were enthusiastically applauded. "East, west, north, south, in all lauds," he cried, "tho gates of tho world are open; and the people are awaiting the advance of tho Army of Christ, Wo can only advance if we stand shoulder to shoulder, as <110 united, mighty army. Wo are'living in .1 glorious day. Y?o are going to_sec tho abolition or tho unutterable evils of destitution and misery; wo shall see a living wage established for all tin" workers, and every man of us within the. Christian Church must strivo to make a Christian proletariat that will know how to spend the higher wage. 1 thank God for the Brotherhood movement, and 1 pray that it may he loyal to Christ and His' Church."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1931, 13 December 1913, Page 11
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348THE BROTHERHOOD MOVEMENT. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1931, 13 December 1913, Page 11
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