MR DAVIS’S LECTURE.

Evening Star, Issue 3830, 3 June 1875, Page 3

MR DAVIS’S LECTURE.

To the Editor.

Sir, —At the request of a society of young men in connection with one of our leading congregations the Rev. Mr Davis delivered a lecture yesterday evening. To my astonishment, only about fifty out of a congregation of about 600 people attended. Some time ago, Dr Stuart opened the present session of the same society with a lecture, aud on that occasion tho attendance was even smaller. If a generous sympathy with young men in efforts for self-improvement and respect for their minister are not sufficient motives for turning out, surely a sense of courtesy to the minister of a neighboring congregation, who very kindly and willingly consented to lecture, might have secured a large attendance. The Young Men’s Heciety may well pause before it again asks any man of culture and refinement to take the trouble to prepare a lecture, when people betray such indifference and apathy to in'.e!lectual and thoughtful entertainment Mr Davis’s lecture was a treat thoughtful, humorous, and lively in the highest degree. I hope the association will not be discouraged because its efforts are treated with such neglect, especially by those from whom it might expect much sympathy.—l am, &c,. One op the Audience. Dunedin, June 3,