NEW PLYMOUTH BROTHERHOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 20 April 1914, Page 8

NEW PLYMOUTH BROTHERHOOD.

ADDItESS liY I!EV A B 1 CIIAI'PELL. A meeting of the Xew Plymouth motherhood was held yesterday when there was a good attendance. The speaker for the afternoon was rte Rev. A. B. Clmppcll, who took for his theme 'The All-Kound Man." Acknowledging the kindness that 'had gienv hiiii his early opportunity, so closely following his coming to Xew Plymouth, <it addressing the men of the Brotherhood, Mr. Chappell expressed his desire to utter a message characteristic of his view 'or hie. He ,|i,[ „ot claim to exemplify "Uie all-round but .lie admired, and emulated, and commended the ide'l so styled. Tliere was. he claimed, oorae urgency m tile need to commend balanoed de- ! volopmcnt. The progress of cirilisatio ) had involved the partitioning of duties and division 0 f labor, and eventHally hronght us to the age 0 f the specialist, this had been inevitable, but it w;U perilous in the development of the individual lite. Partial tasks were iial.'c to create mere fractions of men. Every occupation was full of this risk.' A man might become brutaliseil. or mechanical, impractical,- or something else according to tlie tendencies of limbs of his means of livelihood. An accountant for example, would tend to look st mr-i' through the ledger, and a scientific obsejver (even a Charles Darwin) would lose his pow-r of imagination and a;, preeiation ol' poesy. The neglect of 'any po-sibilitr in life eventually meant its loss. *.Ven invol.mtarily revolted against tie limits of , their occupations, and induced in 'games and followed hobbies, in order to adjust the balance disturbed I>\" the inllucnce of their ordinary avocations. 11l the physical realm, we were to-day • learning that much of our exercising of muscle had involved inequalities velopment, and we compared unfavorably iu this respect, with Creeian athletes. Mental unevenne.sscs were similar ly existent. ' ( There had hern a tendency to develop types of men. M"n strong in certain directions only, like the "hnii-uv,-" whom Oeorge linrrow praised. or the sallow-faced student, of fad an it fiction or the hard-lieadcd commercial man a ! too common to-dav. I

The speak.')- urged Mint the all-round 'nun would be cultured in hod v. in-i;.-l. heart and .spirit. There was much hi: ssiill, and it i otild bo «ai<]. in }«.• churches with advantage. fur the development of tin- lxi<lv. There was, deed, a 2\e\v Testament (iospel for the body, as appropriate fur mir own as I'or any age. I lie culture of intellect «':is erjiiallv desirable. W'e could never k low too Dutch. The I! real Thinker had endowed man with wondrous powers, for whose culture anil exercise he was responsible. Social qualities. particularly the gift of the tender heart were of outstanding inipnrtance in the broadening and intensifying of life, but there fx as still another need, the liiectimr ol that craving for (.!„• Infinite wliieli t'arlyle had insistently stressed. Man was more than' a glorili«d brut!'. There was ju.stilica lion m his being (!<■- scribed as -the tadpole of an angel. He was possessed of the tire of Prometheus, shrouded in clay, lie was like a giant tree, with its roots in the ground and its head anions the stars. Develcr,ed life for him involved a sky. Ife was never more himself than when be stood "God-contjiiered with his face- to Heaven upturned." Tim all-round man was strono and thoughtful, tender and devout. Probably no man would care to claim ,to be so grandly fleveloped. hut every man owed it to hiri&elf, his fellows and Ws maker to pursue resolutely that idea!. • • 'ii.. A