A NEW EVANGEL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1906, Page 1

A NEW EVANGEL.

THE GOSPEL FOR THE TWEN-

TIETH CENTURY

Mr Kier Hardie, M.P., speaking in Stocfcfcfjn Theatre, declared that the Labourites ware not a political party. They wer-3 teaching th« ijepolp to see the light, and trying to make them rebels against unjust conditions. They were fighting for the overthrow ot poverty; for the freedom of the bond slaves of poverty. They were fighting no less to overthrew the bondage of wealth. They would have heard at their churches and chapels the gospel of freedom proclaimed nineteen hundred years ago, when they ceased to be under the bondage of the old law, and became free under the truth proclaimed by Christ. And now at the beginning of the Twentieth Century the Independent Labour party was carrying out a new evangel—freedom in its fullest sense, economic, mental, political, and spiritual. The Labour members in the House of Commons formed one composite, united, and coherent party working together for a common object, and that was the uplifting of the class to which every man of them belonged. But the influence of their party was not to be measured by its numerical strength. (Hear, hear.) He questioned whether a party of 50 ever exercised so much influence in any country. This was npt because they had 50 votes hi the House of Commons, but because of what they represented outside that House.