| Show SEVENTIES HALL LECTURES mr lir long delivered his bia promised lecture en an popery and the tho popes in the first six centuries of 0 the christian era on tuesday evening tho tha lith insh ansh to a large and attentive audience his denunciations of the emperors Empe rora nero and trajan for their cruel ions ot of tha iha early Christ christians lans ians were rather severe a vere but the climax of rf severity verity ae was not reached until the speaker began to de describe cribe cribb that enemy of lite litt grature ppe gregory the great who took the chair of st S peter peer in the year the lecturer spoke of him as the enemy of mankind I 1 and the particular scourge of the human race the destroyer of all the vau yau valuable able abie libraries in europe and anlap asia asla the most determined enemy to the progress of civilization that ever entered the vatican and finally ai as the in of those horrible scenes of blood and carnage that were witnessed in the dark ages the lecturer gave the names of the pope popes and the number thit that swayed the papal tre in ln each century as be passed along 1 s and gave his bia views in regard 0 to the baneful l influence 0 which was spread through the then known world in succeeding ages areg by those pretended successors of st peter the introduction of infant sprinkling lings the council of 0 nice under the auspices of constantine st the son ol 01 the sainted harlot the two vacancies which occurred in the holy see ia in the eth century and an d the departure of priesthood from the earth to heaven heaved all rs r ceil cell ed the attention of the speaker last friday evening mr ellas L T ilar liar rison delivered a highly interesting lecture an on that pleasing and inexhaustible subject subjects to the lecturer astronomy in his opening remarks he stated that astronomers astronomer like ilke geologists 0 deal in hypothesis but astronomy does not the lecture was replete with interesting inter eating information rori fori hatlon nation upon almost every conceivable question connected with nith this glorious science eLce mr harrisons simple method of showing hoy how astronomy determines the size distance and planets planets rendered th lectura unusually interesting towards the cl close se oe of the lee iee lecture ture when de scribing the vast va atness nesb nesa Y the magnitude and glory of the countless m mons of the creations cf god B truly eloquent eaf phelps inimitable almanac for in bressan pre ssan 1 will wi J shortly |
