ABSTRACT
Trevor was not the only church founder of this decade: another was J. Bruce Wallace. Bruce Wallace was a social mystic. 576 Born at Gujerat in India and educated at Dublin and Belfast for the ministry, he was so influenced by Henry George that on settling in Limavady in Northern Ireland, he began to issue, in 1889, a weekly known as Brotherhood. Originally a Presbyterian, he found it impossible to conform to the Westminster Confession and became a Congregationalist. He held pastorates at Dublin and Belfast. At Belfast Brotherhood, now a monthly, carried pointed comments on social conditions, which Wallace underlined by open-air campaigns. It carried Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward as a serial. And when, in 1889–90 Wallace visited America, Canada and Mexico, it also carried accounts of Topolobampo, A. K. Owen’s famous community experiment. When Wallace came to north London in 1891 and took over an almost derelict church in Southgate Road, Brotherhood became the magazine of a church: the Brotherhood Church. This was founded as a result of a social questions conference which he held in 1892.
