Mrs Moore's Lecture

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 47, 29 September 1885, Page 3

Mrs Moore's Lecture

A lecture was delivered by Mrs Moore at the Foresters' Hall on Sunday evening last, the subject beiug "The Angel's Message— ' Peace on Earth and goodwill towards Man.'" There was a very fair attendance including a good sprinkling of ladies. The lecturess was introduced by Mr Beading,- .who explained that he had been requested to preside, but did so entirely in his private capacity, he not now Being a member of the Society under whose auspices the lecture was being delivered. Mrs Moore in her opening remarks at once gained the thorough appreciation and confidence of her audience as a very refined and eloquent speaker, and although her discourse was for the most part read, it was evident that she was by no means in bondage to her' manuscript. Indeed she may be said to have fully carried out the advice of a certain great divine — "Never to your notes be so enslaved as to suppress some instantaneous thought, Ac." The first part of her lecture consisted chiefly in calling to mind certain facts connected with ecclesiastical history, the persecutions and /cruelties that had been perpetrated in th« name of Christianity ; an enumeration of the multitudinous sects which had existed or still did exist, and the many wide divergencies of opinion that prevailed amongst them; the numerous wars and rumours of wars among so-called Christian nations, all of which facts Mrs Moore contended wer© proof positive that the. angel's message had not yet been fulfilled. But, "Was there never to be peace on*nartii and goodwill towards men ?" 33us vas tho question to which the laeturiss $en proceeded to endeavoui to fi»4#n answer. The message had gone forth^ and in her opinion would ultimate]*, bo fulfilled through the teaching^, what was known as modern spiritualism. This, Mrs Moore MJatwl'Ont, was not a mere theory, at m§ny imagined, and was not founded on' faith, and credulity, but onscientjffic facts, which could be proved to any ingenious mind. This phenomenon was* nothing more or less than i part of that grand and universal evolution that was eyer proceeding, and which, as far as mankind were concerned, would at length bring abou that brotherhood in which peace anc goodwill would everywhere reign, anc that for aye. The lecture lasted for upwards of ai h«ur, and was frequently applauded At the close, a vote of thanks to Mn Moore, on 4he motion of the chairman 'P. Thomson, wai aprnedr by--*aoelamati<m. We shoult ni>t omit to mention that Miss Annii (qhamharlain played several selection elk the piano, both before andafte tttr lecture, and was very heartfr