| Show SEVENTIES HALL LECTURES on the uit mr joseph romney delivered a lecture upon the tiie study and advantage adv antall ge of history after defining history the speak speaker r proceeded to give b h a views in regard to the best method of studying and the kind of works which he had bad found to be the most useful in the prosecution tion alon of ot his fat favorite study the first history to be studied by the youth of our community he thought thong ht was that of our oar own church then that 0 our country coun try in connection with its laws president brigham young b inz in present was invited to address the audien audience ce he commenced by compliment com ing the youthful lecturer and expressed a desire to sie eee other young men raen brought up in the same way lie he demi debt history to he be a fair account of things that we have not seen beci in following up the he subject of the evening he painted in glowing colors the evils attendant upon youth reading warlike history friday nov 21 aa mr isaac groo lectured on the sources and uses of history ile he stated that he thought the sources of history were as numerous ou s as the tributaries tributa ries of the mississippi but among the number be he would mention oral tradition monuments ruins coins labels and I 1 inscriptions crip chip eions on marble of these oral tradition is the most ancient it was from this kind of material that compiled bis his celebrated works of history coins made yearb years ears earb before christ are the most moat ancient that zear bear marks of 0 civilization and refinement the speaker then went into some minute and interesting details respecting the divisions of history ancient and modern sacred profane and ecclesiastical when speaking of the history of the middle or dark ages he be said they vere were characterized by the crusades the introduction of Mahome ch chivalry ivary and the feudal system history in its uses he be said has greatly the advantage over novel reading t which cor budts burts the mind and aud acts as a s sort ort of moral I 1 poison real history adds to our already I 1 stock a vast amount of 0 useful knowel knowledge ge in in regard to the experience ot of others and the student therein learns to commend true great ness and he be also learns it to be his hia duty to do all in his power to promote the good ot of mankind it also has a tendency to make makeba us satisfied with our condition and to give us further assurance of the certainty of the decay of all earthly things I 1 mr T B broderick followed the lecurer lecturer with quite a spicy little speech full of in interest teresi and humor tuesday hon geoge geo gee ge go A smith complied with tho the earnest solicitations citations soli of the committee by delivering a lecture on history it Is almot almost needless to say that the lecture was one of thrilling interest the house bouse was crowded half au an hour before the time of 1 and scores were unable to gain adais al blon eson or the lecturer commenced his hia address by stating that in the year of the Co ristian christian era was vas born a man destined to produce a wonderful effect upon nearly one third of the human race his hia name differs as we get it from different authors Per persian siah slab grecian and arabian this man commonly called mahomet was denounced as an enthusiast and fanatic but the stronger the opposition the tha more rapidly the delusion spread mr air smith then described the magical effect of mahometa eloquence hia his fluency of speech and powers of logical agic al d deduction on being regarded af asa a miracle cl by h his is foll followers ile he likewise reasoned at some bome length on the nature of the opposition which the new pew religion met with showing it to be the means of spreading the doctrines and increasing the number of the prophets adherents the great battles fought and bignal vie ories oris gained by the Muss ulmen in persia assyria mecca alid and jerusalem were all g described by the speaker in h hib his 9 usual happy style among the doctrines of the koran remarked upon by the speaker that in reference to the matrimonial relations ot of the votaries vot aries of mahomet received its share of attention polygamy is said to have been both taught and I 1 i practiced practised by the prophet and his early converts each man accepting of the doctrine that there was one god and aia Ala mahomet homet was his hia prophet being allowed four wives and as many coric conic concubines u as they pleased on friday 28 18 1 b mr john sohn milton delivered a lecture on ancient assyria in proof of the very early period at which Ni nineveh nin Min eveh was wag settled the speaker called attention to the tenth chapter of genesis after which he traced the history of the early Assyrian As syrians sp showing their rise to greatness and splendor and their sudden fall to darkness dar knes knees and degradation caused as the lecturer proved ed by disobedience to the mandates of heaven the hall was crowded on the ad dinst I 1 mr charles F jones sones en pertained the congregation with an interesting uninteresting hect lecture ure on the subject of the early apostasy apo stacy from the christian religion in the first place be he pointed out the order of the church as it was established by christ and his hia Apost apostles lesl 1 I 1 and showed the gradual innovations that tha t were j made in the first second third and fourth centuries his ilia quotations from Mos nosh eillis heims ecclesiastical 1 liht history ry and milners Mil Alil ners end of 0 R e co controversy n tro veray were right to the point evidences drawn from gahan and fr from 0 lVe ive sermons were all appropriate and tended greatly to embellish we th e lecture mr J V long followed with some terse and critical remarks on the same sames subject |
