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Show VOLTAIRE A CHURCH BUILBER Judge Kinp Corrects Some Popular Fallacies Concerning the Great Trench Philosopher. Vollaicc was a deist and not an atheist, as preachers . picture him, according to the statements of Judge V. II Klng last night in his lecture on tlic famous French author at Unitey church, on Second Sec-ond East between First and Second South stree.ttv He not only believed in a God. the speaker asserted, but built edifices of worship for the peasants and encouraged their attendance. The lecture was lucid, intenselv Interesting Inter-esting and InsUncUve. Many of tho popular pop-ular conceptions and beliefs concerning the great author were shattered during the course of Judge KIiik'k remarks. "Voltahv was butler than his ase In ! mora Is." he, said. ."AW cannot judgo a man who lived at his 'lime bv the high standards of iiioi-.i)h which are now observed. ob-served. He slruek at superstition and priestcraft and not at Christlanilv. lie pleaded" for liberty nf conscience iind of thought and ubhorred hypocrisy. Ills dying dy-ing word, wore. "I love my friends, do not lmto my enemies and detest superstition.' supersti-tion.' " Following the address several musical selections were rendered. Judge King was frequently Inl-rrupted with applauso , during the lecture. |