BRITISH ISRAELISM

Taranaki Daily News, 29 June 1934, Page 14

BRITISH ISRAELISM

BRANCH FORMED AT INGLEWOOD.

Under the auspices of the British Israel Association Mr. E. V. Laws, secretary of the Wanganui group of the British Israel World Federation, addressed a large and interested audience at Inglewood on Tuesday evening. British Israelism was not, he said, a new religion or creed, or sect, but rather a further interpretation of the universal creed of the great Protestant church. All classes of the community, Royalty, the church, the professions, and Parliament were well represented in the movement. Prominent among the latter was the late Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey. . So large had the movement grown in Britain, the U.S.A., and the Dominions that the membership ran into millions and hundreds of meetings were held daily. Other signs of progress were that the Jewish Christian Association had amalgamated it and the Jewish Chief Rabbi of Poland, who was also Chief Rabbi for Europe, had joined the association. Continental Jews were linking up with the movement. Dealing with God-given laws the speaker pointed out that Israel had never kept these laws, but declared that since God’s purposes never changed Israel would yet do so. Then should be the time when, as the Bible declared, “a nation will be born in a day.” Israel, as repeatedly, stated in scripture, was created God’s servant nation to win the world back to Him by demonstrating to a sceptical world that godliness paid. The speaker demonstrated from the Bible that the Anglo-Saxon peoples were the present representatives of this servant nation. By special request Mr. Laws gave a talk on Pyramidology, illustrating his story from a diagram of the pyramid provided by a local enthusiast. The interest of the audience could be seen by the fact that at 11 p.m. it merged into a meeting to form a group of the federation in Inglewood. Officers elected were: President, Mr. J. W. Wellington; vice-presidents, Messrs. Yeates

and W. V. Mclntyre; secretary and treasurer, Mr. J. L. Wellington; committee, Nurse Morgan and Mesdames Ashton and Mclntyre, Mrs. Petersen, and Messrs. Hodges, Mayer, Ashton and Bracegirdle.