NO USE FOR £30,000.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 70, 21 March 1908, Page 13

NO USE FOR £30,000.

1 YOUNG MAN REFUSES TO FORSAKE RELIGION FOR A FORTUNE. At a fnrm on Westerham UiU. Kent, fonsako the religion he has chosen, has refused a fortuue of £30.000. His name is Henry Basendale. His father, a Lancashire man. a wealthy plumber's merchant, was a member of the Plymouth i Brethren. When he died recently he leftl Henry £20,000 aud a share in the residu-' j.-.ry estate, which v.ovid probably amount to £10.000, ou condition that be should return wit Lin teu years to the religious faith in which he had been brought up. For two years previously Henry had j joined the Bible Brotherhood, a community based on the principle* of the first century Christians, which accepts the total Bible as divinely inspired from cover to cover, and believes that the precepts for life therein laid down must be rigidly followed, as the j "faith once for all delivered to the saints." | and he says: "1 would prefer to remain at-' tached to this disciplouuip with notbiuj. j than hroome a rich, rejected Plymouth! Brother" | j So Henry Baxendaie and several other j i "brothers'" live in the old farmhouse at Wcsterham. di.igently tilling about 120 acre;, and leading the perfect simple life, j i The members of this brotherhood "turn j the other cheek" literally. They admit notu-i ing or The Law for Saints. They know the' ; Bible with a rare thoroughness, have no' desire for money, call "success" just 1 ure and death, and lonk upon churches and r'Sabbath-goers" as the manifestations and j 'worshippers of the dovil. The modern world aud all its doings horrifies them. And it is I J said they never smiie.