MEN'S OWN BROTHERHOOD.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12889, 16 July 1913, Page 6

MEN'S OWN BROTHERHOOD.

There was a large attendance of men at the usual Sunday afternoon meeting in tho Central Hail. Air. K. D. Patterson occupied the chair. Tho Broth-

erhood Orchestra, gave a very eifective rendering of the selection, "A Garland of Old-fashioned Roses." Mr. Clark saner with taste the sacred song, " Queen of Angels."

Mr. K. B. Horsley (President) gave tho third address of his series on "The Signs of the Times." He began by stating that he would confine his remarks to three of the signs given in the Book of Daniel: —Ist, that of travel —"Many shall run to ,and fro." Never before, in the history of tho world, was there such travel by land and sea, and bj* such rapid locomotion. New routes wero being opened up by the Suez and Panama canals, to which .must shortly be Added the Euphrates valley, and by railways Tunning into tho heart of Africa. The increase of wealth in our day enabled men to make journeys our forefathers never dreamed of, and the next generation would see this running to and fro enormously increased. 2nd, "The increase of knowledge"—By telescope, microscope, spectrum, radium, Rontgen rays, etc., things our fathers nover heard of. our knowledge was being increased. History .and archaeology wero laying their treasures at our feet, confirming our faith in the truthfulness of the Scriptures. Education was one of the watchwords of all civilised nations, and the day school was granting facilities to the children of the democracy for acquiring knowledge. The mind jf man was the workmanship of God. and knowledge was essential to its development. 3rd—"The great democratic development." The speaker briefly sketched Nebuchadnezzar's image, showing that the first monarchy, tho Babylonian, was one of absolute power—power in its highest, unlimited i torm; tho second, represented by silv£i% was an aristocratic one; the third, £° ProC)' an ' was a military one; while tho fourth, the Roman, 'was pourtrayed in fcvo stages, iron, and then iron mixed with clay. In the latter stage of this kingdom, the kings and rulers mingled with the rest of men, or tho common people; and there we had forecasted the blending of the will of the people with the ruling authority in democratic government. To deliver man from slavery and serfdom, the democratic rising was necessary and inevitable, iand nothing can prevent its onward march. Beginning with absolution and ending with democracy is tho history of human power as foreshadowed in tho Bible. In reply to the question, " Will democratic government bring m the kingdom of universal righteousness when all other forms of Government havo failed?" the speaker answered in the negative. The hand which had pronounced tho doom of tho first, is already beginning to write the failure of the second. Only He Who has redeemed the world can govern the world., anrf the signs of the times clearly indicate- that the time is near at hjind when God will reveal His own Ivmgdom to tho eyes, of an astonished world.