Show AT THE CHURCHES Rev Clarence T Brown at the First Congregational LECTURE QN JOHN HAMPDEN FOURTH IN THE SERIES OX UTOIATf LIBERTY Rev Stanley M Hunters Address at I Dully Hall on Spiritualism Tlic Services nt the Tabernacle Yes terdny Afternoon AtJrtreines Ity Elders Joseph B McMnrrin and Charles IV Tenrosc First lUetliocl 1st Church I The fifth of the series of lectures on historical men being given at the Congregational gven gregational church was delivered last evening by Rev C T Brown on John Hampden John Hampden was a man of high moral character and artistic tendencies tenden-cies He lived in the early years of the great Puritan struggle for religious religi-ous liberty The great Magna Charta itself was in peril Of the great factors fact-ors in the struggle were the Protestant religion the Bible against the pope and private interpretation against ecclesiastical dictation In that Puritan Puri-tan revolution one of the strongest characters was John Hampden He refused to accede to the lings enforce ed loan for which he was Imprisoned Afterwards he refused to pay the ship money tax His trial for that crime stirred all England In the north Scotland was ready to rebel The king needed money he called a session of parliament but without avail I did not help him Then came the long parliament in which John Hampden was the champion of liberty The struggle between that body and king led to the great Puritanical war early in the history of which this hero was killed in the great charge on Rupert He was given a soldiers burial and thus passed away one of Gods instruments In the struggle for religious liberty A number of beautiful selections were given by the choir Also several I on the organ by Professor Radcliffe The subject for the next lecture the Sunday Payne following the younger will be Sir Harry |