THE BADGE OF BROTHERHOOD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 299, 27 January 1910, Page 3

THE BADGE OF BROTHERHOOD

REV. H. WOOLLCOMBE'S VISIT. "After touring Xew Zealand I am going to South Africa, India and Ceylon, with the object of forming a big freemasonry of the men of the Cliurcn of England. Our sign—that is to say, the means by which we recognise one another —is of brass, and is in the shape of a small cross with the letters 'C.E.M.S' on one side, and our brotherhood motto is on the other," remarked the Rev. li. S. Woollcombe j chaplain to the Archbishop of York, and late head of Oxford House, Bethnal Green, wiio is travelling round the world as the representative of the Church of England Men's Society, to a Dunedin interviewer on Friday. "'Class' distinctions, of course, are. more marked in England than here, and our brotherhood is having a great effect in bringing churchmen of all classes together. For instance, at our annual parliament it is most delightful to find an audience listening with great interest one moment to some swell with a handle to his name who is wel-known in the State, and then listening with equal interest to s'ome Yorkshire miner as he gives his opinion concerning some church topic. I have had several instances while I have been in Australia of men recognising each other through the badge, and I am frequently spoken to in England by perfect strangers, the b."le being our introduction.

Several mo Australia who have joined the so . rC( ] have visited the Old Country found the same t' -•ort one of our co' >.s (\pvrs "Vp oi v'• iciet.y thov : isolves to him. help him find i«ine's, introduce him to a ;> eon.re<ration, and in some ep- ,ve i"tually foun' 1 him employine;