HAWERA BROTHERHOOD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 19 October 1914, Page 6

HAWERA BROTHERHOOD.

ADDRESS BY .MR. BEDFORD

JVIr.H.JD. Bedford, of Dunedin, who is visitmg.the district in the interests .of the Norlicense campaign, gavt an interesting , address to the Hawera .Brotherhood on Sunday afternoon. There was a large attendance of members, and .Mr. L. A. Bone presiled. Mr. Bedford took as his subject "Ideals," and said thai idealism really .governed .and controlled every department of human life. Men and women i whom we had honored in the past, | throughout, succeeding generations, had high ideals .in their desire to "lift mankind from a lower to a- higher level. We required high ideals in our business life and in every walk of life. It was men with high ideals who had advanced tour prosperity and given us additional comforts in life. He gave several illustrations in support of this fact, mentioning the.name of George Step'henson and his contemporaries, men of inventive genius who had given his something that had assisted many to .get more comfort and more joy out of fh'is xmiverse.- The great sculptors and painters were men of high ideals, who, by their work, endeavoured to point to a high ideal. The British had their "history marked by more geniuses than any other nation. The reason" for this was that the Bi-itish people were never content with staying at the point they "had reached —thore was always s^mefhing beyond: a high ideal to be reached. He outlined the various moveirients which, had taken place in the direction of lifting the people on to a higher plane in life, and went on to refer to another high ideal which we in this Dominion were trying to reach, and that was the reform involved in the movement for National Prohibition. (\pplause.) Twenty-five years ago there was a small band in this' Dominion who lifted up the idaal of freeing the manhood of our people from the trammels of strong drink. It took time to s;ain reforms; the time ib took to rise from one level to another was long, and although many of the stoutestheai'ted men in this movement had passed away, yet the campaign went forward. In fact, the time was coming shortly when we would see this high ideal attained. There was a glorious future before this Dominion —(applause) and all the glory that was going to come to it would come from the young •riRU who had their powers unimpaired. (Renewed applause/) In conclusion, he nnpealad to the younfr men to harness themselves to some ideal, and to use their redundant energy for the adv^ncAnient of men fro-n the lower to the higher level. (Applause.) On th^ motion of Mr. E. C. Hayton, seconded by Mr. J. R. Nairn, a hearty vot? 1 of thanks was accorded "to Mr. Bedford for his eloquent address. It was, the mover said, an ideal address for a. Brotherhood meeting. A collection was taken up in aid of the Huntly relief fund.