Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-26
BApTISTS PLAN
LECTURE SERIES
Course of Notable Discours-
es by Eminent Speakers.

The First Baptist church Is offer
Ing q series of first class lectures on
a different plan than usual. There
will be no tickets sold whatsoever,
something which is as big a nuisance
to those selling the tickets as to
those asked to buy them. The lee
lures are not for the purpose of
making money, but of presenting
something worth while to the citi-
zens of the city. To defray the ex-
|penses a nominal charge will be made
at the door. The pastor, Rev. Will
liam Fl. Bawden, knows personally
each one Of the lecturers, and has
heard them speak, knows from ex-
|perience that the evenings will be
both pleasant and profitable. The
usual price paid for these lectures
ranges from $50 to 800. 1t is be-
cause of personal friendship with
the pastor that the lecturers have
consented to come as above.
The first lecture will occur this
Thursday evening, March %, when
DR.. Oscar Haywood will speak on the
question. "Shall the Death Penalty
be Abolished? DR.. Haywood is
pastor of the Baptist church of the
Covenant of New York city. Last
year he spoke at the banquet of the
Baptist Brotherhood and nightly
pleased the one hundred men present
so much so that the question has
been repeatedly asked When are you
going to invite him again?
The second lecture will be stereop-
ticon illustrated, given by Prof. VIII
liam r. Shepherd, professor of his
tory in Columbia University, New
York city. Prof. Shepherd is an au-
thority on the Spanish colonial his
tory of u country, having spent
many months in Spain and the va
rious countries of South America in
gathering information. He has been
sent to South America as a represent
tative of Columbia. and also as a rep
resentatiye of our government, to
educational and political conferences
and parliaments. He has given his
experiences in South America many
times in a series of nine lectures.
The best Of all of these, both as to
materials and pictures, he will pre-
sent here under the title: "Civiliza-
ton in South America" In addition
to the interesting information which
he is able to give, Prof. Shepherd is
a trained and charming speaker. The
lecture will be given Tuesday even
ing, April 8.
The third lecture will take place
Tuesday evening. April %, changed
from Friday of the same week as an
accommodation to the Y. M. G. A.
entertainment the latter evening. DR..
Gabriel r. Mcguire, pastor of the
Park Avenue Baptist church of Plain
field will be the lecturer, and will
relate from his personal experiences
can Irishman through the Jungles
of Africa" DR.. Mcguire Is an Irish
man, and can no more help seeing
and expressing the funny side of life
than the ordinary man can help
breathing. One is kept in a constant
state Of hilarity from start to finish;
and yet the lecture abounds in in
formation and other things worth
while. This lecture has been given
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
everybody is loud in It's praises. 1t
lis safe to say that nothing quite like
it was ever heard before.
The closing lecture will be given
by Rev. Samuel Aldine Perrine. pas
LUr OIL the rum bdpLlSJ CHuICl VI
Newark, Friday evening, May 10, and
will be entitled: Under the Roof of
the World" and will be stereopticon
illustrated. Mr.. Perrine spent ten
and more years of his life under the
shadow Of the %eternally snow-cov-
cred Himalayas of Asia, whence the
title of his lecture. He has many
superb views, his relation of some
phases OF the life of that Eastern
country is startling, and the lecture
is given with those flashes of humor
that make the whole evening both in
~teresting and entertaining.
Remember the dates-Thursday,
March %; Tuesday, April 8; Tuesday
April 23, and Friday, May 10.