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Show RELICION VS. SUPERSTITION SUBJECT OF EXCELLENT TALK Religion vs. Superntition was the title of one of the best talks ever given to a local audience when Prof. J. G. Mc-Quarrie Mc-Quarrie lectured to a crowded house, the occasion being the second lecture and program given under the auspices of tne local Parents class. An excellent musical program was rendered under the direction of Prof. Halverson, and Miss Zina A. Woolf gave three dialect readings in her clever manner. Superstition makes lords and masters of the few and slaves of the many, and religion has always originated with knowledge, according to the speaker. The superstitious man fears everything while the religious man fears only for the results of untruth and unfaithfulness, unfaithful-ness, but otherwise fears nothing in heaven oi on earth. The tree has life and power to send forth leaves, blossoms, blos-soms, and branches, but is dead to the bird and animal life with which -it is ; urrounded; the birds and animals are alive to their intimate surroundings but still are dead to the life of thought and progress which we enjoy; while even human life while alive to knowledge, science, and power can be dead to the higher spiritual life. There is a philosophy of blindness, apparently, as well as a philosophy of light, and superstition never evolved into in-to religion, all religious beliefs being found to be the purer the nearer they are traced to their Bource. |
