The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-01-06
TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 6, 1874.

&AssEABLY HAII.--A goodIy audience at
i tended DIR. Landis's lecture at Assembly
Hall last night, and were prepared by the
notices of him quoted In the city papers
i from northern exchanges to hear something
unusually humorous and valuable; but it
soon became apparent that the Assembly
Hall company had been grossly misled. DIR.
Landis is a minister of the Gospel, from
Philadelphia, man of fine appearance and
OF full flow of language; but his thoughts
seem to outstrip even his rapid tongue, and
he often left his sentences unfinished. We
regret that he had not left moie unsa;d,
or We bad not heard him. Yet,
toE. 1.-The sake of the readers of the
protest against the incubation in this COM
munity of ideas that would undermine tie
morality and pure religion in any commu.
nifty. The Doctor stated in the beginning
that he was formerly medical practitioner,
but now preacher. His medical expert
encc biased his whole lecture, or g oration,"
as he styled it, aud furnished the only hints
Of any value during the hour he ranted
ridicuously on the st,ge. Among his earliest
utterances was something of this style,
though not his exact words: "The holy
Ghost is an entire ghost is, ghost
without holes in it."
The lecturer apparently believes that
Christ was man of superior 5odily and
mental attainments, who is q suitable model
in his character and personal habits for the
Initiation of every man and WonaaIis upon
earth. He said Christ was pure scientist,
! and there is only one way to go TO heaven,
and Tint is severely mathematical. purely
scientiic-the law of God, the law OF Ma
| ture. ANY failure to follow these was to
yield to the temptations Of the Devil. Good
| is God, evil Is the Devil. Pure air, he said,
IS filled with angels-that is, with all the
! dement's OF health and vigor; foul air with
imps, or the poisonous gases that destroy
| the body and which result in the destruction
Of the soul.
The lecturer traced the evils Of improper
feeding of infants, to boyhood, youth, and
| manhood Improper feeding (sugsested by
| the DeviD paved the way for dyspepsia; that
and partaking of greasy food to desire for
tobacco; next came Whiskey, and thence
| from evil to evil, from devil to the Devil.
He devoted much attention to descriptions
of the sad effects of tobacco and Whiskey,
saying many true things. of them, and
gave some wholesome warnings. His wife,
who was born in North Carolina, had told
! him, he said, that if be " talked much about
Tobacco and whiskey down in,Richmond be
would get his head broke, for ali the men
down there get drunk and use tobacco, but
he had found it lic.'
After yindcating fashion and fashionable
training, he said ladies should marry men
healthy in body and mind; men "correct in
habits of stomach and of mind" Let them
select such men Gas your own great Gov
ernor Walker, man who knew the right
and dare maintain" This was the only re-
mark that elected applause.
We have followed this Grafton already too
far, and may in word say it was the most
remarkable aggregation of sense and non
sense, of blasphemy and religion, ever heard
in this city