Lecture.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3675, 5 October 1880, Page 2

Lecture.

The Rev. Upton J. Davis, B.A. of Duriedin, delivered one of his popular lectures at the Presbyterian Church last evening, before a fairlj representative audience. Mr Wilkinson occupied the chair. The lecturer having introduced his subject by referriug to the old nursery rhyme of Hjuk and Bil—Jack and Jill— and its origin said:—This like many other nursery songs, it had its human as well as its moral side. The myth embodied some common feature and of a round of life, showing hotr a man and his mate shared the same toil and-the acme disaster. And this ii so common

a lot on earth that our forefathers could not but believe it must be so in the moon too. Men and women are always pairing off. they go up hill together in common toil; and this goes on like the waxing and waining of the moon, in all weathers. Mr Davis then proceeded to give a highly interesting narrative, introducing sketches of New Zealand, the moral being that to believe- everything may be considered superstition, but to believe nothing it must end in mental confusion. The lecture was directed against the freethought arguments, which Mr Davis essayed to rebut in this very attractive and deeply interesting form. At the conclusion, votes of thanks were accorded to the lecturer and the committee of the Presbyterian Church.