THE BROTHERHOOD PRESIDENTELECT.
Rev. 11. ' Mofilatt Gautrey, elected President of the National P.S.A. Brotherhood' Council for 1911-12, is tho superintendent of . the Albert Hall Wcsieyan Central Mission at Nottingham, where he succecded Mr. Rattonbury. He is of Huguenot ancestry, and was born in 1872 at Alwalton, near Peterborough. In 1595 he went as a Wesicyan 1 missionary to Mashonaland. On his return, lie worked -successively among.the cotton workers of Ohorley, the chemical workers of St. Helens, and the dock workers of Bootlo. At Bootle ■lie started a Brotherhood that soon had 12(10 members, and his wife followed with a Sisterhood that almost rivalled it. A new church was. crowded, and the Brotherhood men presented to it a £600 organ. Mr. Gautrey succeeded Mr. ltatteiibury in 1907. The hall has been burnt down, and a new hall has been opened, which scats 2650. The institutional side has teen very successfully developed, and a. strong Brotherhood is a leading feature. Mr. Gautrey unites the supposed "conflicting tendencies", of tho Brotherhood I . Movement. '
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 972, 12 November 1910, Page 9
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