BEOTHEEHOOD 79

vision that a drawing together of the nations in
one bond is the only way to prevent the cause
of brotherhood from sacrilege. It aims so high
that by a concerted and mighty effort alone can
attainment be possible. It is an outside thing
to reduce armaments; what we need is the
spirit that will not use armaments if they are
there. No law can make for brotherhood
except the law of God, which makes a man
a free man, a law unto himself.

The efforts in all countries to improve labour
conditions follow in the same train; it is a
struggle to make one section of the people
partake of the comforts of the other section of
the same people, because we know that we are
brothers and one brother is not inferior to
others of the same family. The effort for better
wages, better housing, is all on the same tack,
and so is the struggle for better health conditions
and the prevention of the spread of disease from
one country to another, one brother to another-
All struggles for improvements in factories, in
injurious trades, in sanitation, show that we
recognise the rights of brotherhood and of our
fellow man.

Freemasonry is a brotherhood of another type»
working not at the material benefits for one and
all but for the purpose of bringing together men