MR BRIGHT'S LECTURE.

Evening Star, Issue 4071, 14 March 1876, Page 4

MR BRIGHT'S LECTURE.

lie laat B <sf&fis prt&t& i'ree Thought dalivered: by. Mr Blight in the • Mprak trait on pignt. tw a largo*attfc®The lecturer, '"'tfotset, ‘iißferve&* to ffyiMig the Angels, the- punishment of Lots wife, But he doubted and » hundred pulpiteers their sage fingers at tim witH holy nfirtor. In the name of truth, what.wasiisoffence ?.- stories, he was The former stories - wete sacredr-were the Word of i Qod in the popular apprehension—some two thoui«o, •and Socrates was -put ; -to <math; 'becausehe ..who wbuldprofoKto tueiMarsltivOrihtOllect of tMßafeinatthe QfleSbt ofGodniore tMChtheotßer? It of 'Sign® of I of the most cheering facts in thig .transits on age—l that infidelity of that orthodox typ£ was spreading! amongst all classes. Even fell victims' to the healthy epidemic, anft’clSme out of their; gloomy cloisters to breathe of Heaven. The tainted atmoaphere-of the man-made creeds stifled them. ThQ£fh;wbQi«bJfld not resolve com-!. W. pletaly touemancipate .wemselv.es from.itinspired.it |nhom(Mpaihic.doses:. soips of themjiad gone so! far as WiHctaiWtWrti .they/ret^rdea'JtWehistory of Adam and Eve alleg ny- nothing more.. Doubtless they-were right, but if ,so what persdh c axvorc6u zrow twu. Tipward. to the light ine long > tigw tta'-Ood willed he ;Sl»mdri-What noodl'Wasthepe for mediaiian'orfbr ity as attacking to man, and whac wWlert-Durtfie belief that— ■ §e is a fonpa of.love -whom God pervades. OiS atonaSfi&ii whom GoHlhtpufe»; % ,(■■ ■ ■X. iHeisaform.bf loye whbm.God.unfplds, . .-,j rJbn justness and, proportion that reveal .. ■ of a perfect laif, ‘„* . The ' leolnr6r J quoted Andrew JacKsou Ditvies’s definition of infidelity as “the wilful violation ; of Which you belfeveito he: truth,i justice, and righteousness.*' According to thatj definition, those wereipMel.+ wfio d d not act up) y it cqnid .discern-- If I •ffip J ’Hq mng^'lbe/afifaidj ‘hr Science!. .What codlcFbe ipore the! <pfiWneipbM«6ffW :thd f Wi^Otfe"of-tht!: wbrld—-tshlttbring’at'eVerymove-that science bod! -hcemthc saw; fc*i bentutjfes past ? > * f AJjuost every | was) ly . tabooeq H andi even ~a,fr they, present ( 6V would Occasionally hear people, declare! ■tfhibh'.-Wd’ not* fii^dqbhn’slM&alttetKsbddldpenetrafcQtSfca that] -H^ v gsdunktjus ‘ other .Captain nfth eC titator of the being in after;the - ; de<His audiekte com jSsfcSdioC ftMntJ.flyqißersQfia, mjahtfof thft religious! declining to-atteryi, ana some .de^ani^theur. coqvjtfiiibn jsiO> ! to fKe SClbhtiflC cfiusek of' * -Wsitiitiohs of .Hhttpfly lbr: G&ptftin 'Huttcttfjfchat Was the Worst he ihjjdSo'endureisf« one.suggestedotßat he should, tried. Mjs SfWfimep, ■ ynjccinationwa? declared to hq Satanic at first, and the formation.*?;. thqJßoyal Society was opposed on the satoe gtoqhd. -Even ■ . the collection of reliable statistical information, mot 'Wittt F SfodlfiPoppbEdtfb'ii, add' : bh/thb &@bdtidtion ofl winnowing machines into Scotlandcthey wdre de-' wared to be “ deevilish” contrivances, raising an Independent wind; Jnstead f ..of waiting until its pleased —(Jod -to send line. The game sen-j fence was, ;MSSed, upon^/the; first - road engine. 1 wfiat'they haa laumed, might hot every l movement, which at this day found itself con-i -S?^M^ a take courage ? Might not . Sjdtttualistaevdn prack up, heart of grace.wter on! life?! Bishop"Petry, of fajelbdujriie, in2| Conned them they were devoting themselves to “the* If the ■Bowers «! the Air.”. -; Had tdjrn been, devoted tp that potentate ?pfeeipeedholTbe afraid bf natmps. - ,' If the%(v es-l “in which thby tbbk part Were declared to! ish; it wa&TiCbnsoling to know that everynovating and) advancing; 'had.been so deno-1 i vWho, but .God, the. Divihe ' force, theMU»4 Qf ,’the. Universe, instigated' every! yform, impelled'to all inventiveness, and was the: bf ’every &bsh idea that' beamed upon the* ‘ hnjmm raXJeiP :■ What matter then if ihe were desig-! natS&'Sataniby the- blind ftdherenta of i transitory! grstems: of man-rnode, mythology. ;,The reality; which vitalised all these semblances‘of the worldthe same whatever he.xnight bo termed.! -The fihmO Was human, and' tousequeiitry mutable.! The infinite sdnl of the universe—its - Cl-eatbr, in-! spirer, andpreserver—though misnamed; by' many, i