FREETHOUGHT LECTURES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3230, 5 November 1881, Page 2

FREETHOUGHT LECTURES.

[To the Editor of the Daily TELEGRAPH.! Sib, —Probably you noticed a small local that appeared in the Hawke'e Bay Herald of the 4th instant, worded thus:—-Mr W. Manning will deliver another of the low effusions of Colonel Bob Ingersoll's on Monday night at the Theatre Royal." H Now I wish to say, Sir, that the gentleman who wrote that paragraph has evidently never read one of the colonel's lectures, and before attempting to criticise any of the said lectures again I should strongly advisei him tQ peruse them, or at all events some of them ; and it must also be evident to people of com- . mon sense that the author of that paragraph has an extremely narrow mind, and ia not capable of grasping the broad intellectual views of Colonel Ingersoll, and I emphatically deny that there is one word in the whole of his lectures that can be stigmatised as low; they hare been listened to by thousands upon thousands of intelligent people in all parts of the globe, and there is not one word in all his works that could not be listened to by every man, woman, and child in Ihe universe, and I would ask the public of Napier to reserve their opinion until they have beard the lecture entitled, "What must we do to be saved ?" that the morning paper ia pleaeed to term a low effusion.—l am, &c, A Freethinkeb. Napier, Novnmber 5,1881.