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Show "Infidelity." Mr. (diaries Ellis delivered an inter-esliug inter-esliug lecture last evening in the federal courtroom, upon the subject of "Inlidel-ity." "Inlidel-ity." The cry of inlidclity, said the lecturer, lec-turer, has. been ringing through the world over since men entertained moro than one conception of God. Tho new i.llillKrllt, litis .,.lvi',t Vsl ltiinii ''in full, 111 .r" in J" "V those who wero satisfied with the old. The man whoso god was nu oddly shaped stono thought tho man whoso god was a black bull was an unbeliever and a dangerous follow. To the worshipers wor-shipers of Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. Buddha was an infidel, although lie proclaimed pro-claimed the brotherhood of man. Tho Jews thought Jehovah the supreme God and saw only evil in Egyptian and Indian In-dian theology. Tho Christian theologians theolo-gians have resisted the advances of science sci-ence wilh tho cry of inlidclily. But truth has won on many a battlefield of thought, and theology has modilied its dogmas to lit the times. There will be inlidclily, so called, as long as there is progress to bo made, and man will make progress as long as ho is imperfect. What passes as lulidelity is the Irulh of tomorrow, a little in advancu of the truth of today. Mr. JKIlis announced that next Sunday evening ho w ould lecture lec-ture ou "Mormouisin." |