Professor Blackie's Sunday Leeure.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 83, 11 March 1885, Page 4

Professor Blackie's Sunday Leeure.

i ' : ~r~ ' . : . I :On rt recent Sunday ni^lifc St Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, was crowded by persons wishin^.tq liear the aged rj-ofessor BkckiQ4eli,voi:..a, lccttire, under die auspices of the.. Sunday Society, on " The Lqvc songs of jScotlandio j f ,;• Professor i .BJackje" $t(\d some people would think, him profane for- speaking. of lo,ye on, a Sundajy hut.^bat.w^s; worth bping (.said on a week day .. could.. : ;be j; said i on Sunday ( Applause) 1 .. - t -j the groUnd iyfts;-, pUj>pevy[. ;he. marpjied boldly inltQrthe s.ubj.ecta paying no . man>^'xcep^ ; -ife y< report;^. ls ~(laugh- r.ter) — and they werejnpjaucl? terrible ,jfellows after all. (Renejyedj/laiugji,ter;.!). •.H^i ; .M'adiiiii;ed / , .Jove ., .s songs, , especially tliose •, of, I ; R,o ber d ■ B urns, w-hose inspiration was right, :i th()u,<gh • his life was/ofiep,.-^rg^g... M Tl)e $}fee -:glories of Sco^nd.; as. co.min^nced .with an "S 51 n.amelv, ..seri^is, .s|ongs, and .shillingsi>. .Sernipns /were : represented by Dr.Cbalinqvs,;';' songs by Robert BurnSjj.an^, shillings -by Adanif -ui^fflKh* .; ; i(Appla;UseJ.) I ./-.To elevate,.., stir,.;. av\di purify , a, ,;jman, songs were ..lnpre.ipotenf^ha'n. sermors. (Applause.; One df the songs he,lqjsedj-}y#s' ( V ;WUI y.e ; -gang to the Kelvin Grove, Bonnie Lassie, O." Prpfessor-Blackie ..then, rendered this 'soiig^ and Complied 'Vitli f an picore. y.je,, loved iji,, addition to songs a beautiful, woman, for she was;.'like! music m. his ? eai?', i.(Ap-. plause.) : He never i-lopkad!' at her ankles, . .(Qrcat laughter,.) w{is the face hd ' aclVniretT, and 'if there w.as,a soul^vithin it^wp.uljd .shine.- out Us .cdrtainly +m the,, sun , : ,cUd "except througJi thcsjfloliyr cotmtryi between OBirmingfaa'mJ i a"ndi '. IWolv.QrJjampton. '(G^elat lau^ht'er'and; applause.)