SOCIALISM AND RELIGION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1912, Page 3

SOCIALISM AND RELIGION.

i» Rev. E. 0. Blamires, in addressing the Wellington Men's Brotherhood at The New Theatre yesterday afternoon, described a visit that he had paid , Socialist gathering at The King's 'U; tre on th© previous Sunday. As the oiu come of that vi&it he made, a stirrin> < appeal to the Biotherhood n<jt to be led \ away by speeches of the kind he ha*, heard, speeches full of opposition to re livion. Such Socialism as he had heard expounded on that occasion w£» without true ' method. and, moreover, was opposed to ■ its own aims, interests, and ambitions, and antagonistic to men. It placed men on a level with machinery, and iv no way tended to uplift them into tho dignity of true manhood. The economic conditions of life wetc much worse than they \verc| to-day, bub religion hiid played a prominent part in bringing about advanced social and moral conditions. The social reformer he would welcome when he came to assist and benefit hi.; fellowman. j Mifcs, , Young (Hawera) and Mr. J. Philips stuig. uiid the Biothtihcoil Gke Party fi-.ui* "Tho Wayside by tlw Well." Mi. J. 1 Lewi? (s,ecretur\)"m;;tle an appeal for the iundior the relief- of tufleieis b\/llw distils at -Home, ai.d a cclluetioii tdken up in the thei'lro .\ieldcd i 35 -12s 6d. Messrs. Mac.Mahon and Donnelly were thanked for thy loan of the theatre free ul uharge. ami the Evening Post was thanked for its assistance iv connection with the fund. Mr. E. Tregear will address the Brotherhood next Sunday.