Show OUR PAGAN FOR ATHERS Dr Brown Delivers First of a 0 Series J of Lectures At the First Congregational church Ast night Rev flew Re C T Brown delivered the Ohe first in a series of lectures on UM Ute subject Our Fore Forefathers fathers fathera and Their Conversion The address was V to one which he will deliver eliver dell vcr i t Sunday night on Alfred Allred the tho Great Groat Mr Brown own took MP ip 1 the early ea ly history of or the Anglo AngIo i Saxon people bringing out the salient features In their gro th and develop development development ment down to the Urn tinte of Alfred the Great Said Mr oIl Brown Only by spiritual succession can we claim to have hoe a 0 r Christian ChrIsti n ancestry By blood we can claim dalm only an ancestry of unmitigated pa rans ns These pagans were our fore forefathers fathers Cathers and the history of their char ohr characteristics to hi Ii Of tf Interest to us When the Angles left their little strip of land landon on m n the thu North Sea ea and went to England r were the most mOISt unmitigated pagans In the world They had bad never felt rolt the theRoman Roman Raman influence They had never been touched by Roman Rom n arms or re 10 religion region ligion gion i lon Of alt all the nations that rose from the wreck o of the Roman e empireS empire t the i mA o n no was the t freest mf froth t Roman noma influence They were a nomad nomadic ic people furiously brave and were V the mor desperate de gamblers even een staking their own bodies on the throw o cor r the tha th dice They were possessed with i TO 10 much mach Individualism m that It took I Ic c c of fighting to bring them I t r in political union They wor H n pM t t the e sun BUD moon and stars and ad I vi w m in his is day have bave evidences of their th lr pa pah in worship In the names cf f the F day days of e week w k We Ve are pagans by I blood am ant it Is 18 8 only because Christian Ky Iy i y w was g lets ID Q us by missionary work that re vs ate ste not pagans In every respect When this thle rn blood was touched by 3 Th the e c f Christianity there thore thereA A vas as produce the 1 1111 on that has gHen iven the an al Alfred the Great Greata a Gladstone ud aiti i Washington it ItI I va a year en ezer birth of 0 Christ ChristI t I No tho the A SP a knew Vi It but buti I i the story st ry was told tola them and England I has lias become Christianized |