A Proposed Anglican Brotherhood

New Zealand Tablet, 15 July 1909, Page 1102

A Proposed Anglican Brotherhood

Last week the Wellington Anglican Synod bad before it a proposal which the mover voiced in part as follows: • That this Synod recommend the establishment of a Brotherhood, devoted to voluntary service, in this diocese/ for the purpose of*coping with the three greatest needs of the day —(l) Religious education of the young; (2) street missions; (3) religious work among bodies of laboring men; and that a committee be appointed to promote and carry into effect the object of this institution.' The Post, recapitulating the proposal, says that it ' consists in the

formation of a brotherhood —a " Society of St. Francis," to consist of twelve lay members under a Brother Superior, who will voluntarily devote their lives to the works mentioned in the motion. After having undergone special training, the Brothers would conduct missions among tho children where church schools were not practicable; those specially fitted would prosecute their labors among such country industrial establishments as flaxmills, railways, sawmills, shearers, etc., while the preachers would devote themselves to street missions and general religious work in the large centres. The matter of cost and constitution of the society would be the work of a special committee.'