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Show lecture by Gov. Axtell. Governor Axtcli's ad.lrcss at the Liberal Institute, on Sunday evening, was the occ:',Mon of a very large assemblage as-semblage of the peoplo of this city. Long before tho timo fixe-d for the lecture the hall was crowded; but the people continued to pour in until the aisles wero filled and tho doorways completely blockaded. Hundreds were obliged to return home, unable even to get upon the eteps of tho building. The address, "The Iron Bedstead," Bed-stead," was a popular philosophical essay upon tho teachings of history in regard to human allalrs, illustrating illustrat-ing the progress of mankind in the various departments of knowledge in different ages of the world, by incidents showing that notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the Procustean policy ol bring ing every Ixyly's failh and practise to '.ho prevailing standard, ha-t led to the martyrdom of some of the noblest and best who have lived upon earth, yet their fate has often been more influential in-fluential in spreading the truth than were their wise teachings in life. He referred to various ancient philosophers philoso-phers who had suffered because they failei to adapt themselves to the prejudices of tho age, and to our Savior, who was crucified for a similar simi-lar reaEon. In speaking of Pontius Filate, at the trial of Jesus, he said, beimi the governor of Jerusalem, appointed ap-pointed by the Roman emperor, he (Pilate) was forced to tho crucifixion against his will, as the Jews threat ened to telegraph to Rome that he was opposed to the administration, anil have him removed. This hit appeared ap-peared to be regarded by the audience as something very like tho proceedings proceed-ings of modem times, and they applauded ap-plauded heartily. The governor proceeded to show that there was really no conflict between be-tween tho great teachers of mankind of all ages that Socrates and Confucius Con-fucius and Jesus Christ taught the same code of morality and virtue, that which h recognized by the enlightened en-lightened sentiment of civilization. 1 From this he drew tho conclusion , that there is not so wide a gulf between1 the different religious beliefs as is sometimes supposed. He also con- eluded that the conflict between, science and religion has been fre- j quently exaggerated and that there is nothing in the former necessarily antagonistic to the latter. In this spirit he pleaded for an increase ot liberality among citizens, which should produce greater harmony and peace in every community. The lecture was attentively listened to by the large audience anel some of its points were warmly applauded We understand an effort is being made to induce the governor to repeat re-peat it in a larger hall. |