Year: 1866

Lecture Ia the Jews.


There very little OF the Hebrew element present
yesterday to hear DIR. wardaw in the hall OF
Eighth avenue and Thirtyourth street. judging by ap-
pearances AT the appointed hour, after having read
the evening service. the reverend gentleman
menced his discourse. He expstated at considerable
length upon the gratitude the Jewish for
the records and traditions which they have handed
down us, and upon the respect due to them as lite
rary nation He then made few brief remarks upon
the topic OF the evening the gist OF which that
there being temple and altar upon which TO
make the sacrifices eponed in the sixteenth chapter Of
Leviticus there be atonement. He concluded
with the phy remark that the only common sense view
OF the case that all Jews ought TO become Christians
at once His ratocnaton was not quite so lucid as !,
understand IL fully they may console themselves with
the idea that the reverend gentleman was probably
somewhat In the dark on the subject himself a


Emma Hardinge's Lecture on SpiritnRlisn,.1


Miss Emma Hardnge. OF the most interchangeable Of
the apostles Of Spilituas addressed large audience
Dodworth Hall, Broadway yesterday morning, the
subject OF ''The Religion OF Spritualisn" Universally
transcendenalism Is prominent feature IN the emina
tions OF spualstic propagandss and in this respect
Miss Hardinge is not at fault She is too well known to
require any description as q public speaker Her repu
tadon coextensive with the spread OF the faith she
professes Less than years ago she preached for
season in California but the gales OF the Pacific blew
ualism has but stined growth on that remote coast
Miss Hardinge, in sphere where woman does not find
herself placed under the ban OF public prejudice,
would stand pre-eminent Her manner is en-
gagng, and her voice, vergng to mascuinity, Is
clear and perfectly distinct in lis s0ftest modulaons
She does not formerly enter into the mesmeric
trance does she then profess to speak from
spirit inspiration Her occ-if logic II can be called
quite foreign 10 the reasoning of the heolOgans Men
listen and to extent admire; few convinced
Her speeches rhapsodes instead Of arguments Yes
terday morning she treated OF the control spirit exers
matter attrbutng the productions OF human genius
to the operations of the spirit element She spoke or
passing sfrom eternity to another an idea some
what incompatible with preconceived notions OF
eternity Miss Hardnge however does not present her
religion in as occult a manner Van Week and tho
Davenports have been wont to do with rappngs and
supernatural Instrumentation. She leaves that and light
comedy inferior inellects, and presents the widest
architecture, to speak, OF rhetoric, profusey con-
glomeratcd with metaphor and hyperboe, leaving her
audience loss whether to admire her genius
detest her heresies, II they be heresies.


Lecture Rati0nalism.


lecture on "Ratonaisn, Religio PhiIosopho" was
delivered s13 Broadway hast evening by w. H. Cheney
He recommended his hearers examine the Scriptures
for themselves and be led by the deductions he
drew from them II his belief that the destruction
that Christ foretod and the final day of judgment
in reference to Jerusalem, and not to the world
He took the twenty fourth chapter OF Matthew and
explained how one stone another of the temple would
be left standng for the gold roof had melted in
the fire and down the crevices the Roman sodiery
overturned every stone to find the precious metal He
believed the idea Of millennium to be myth, and that
in the Scripures objected to the doctrine OF hell and
believed that there was no such thing as repentance
for sim for natures laws could not .bc violated with
impunitv thought that he like Franklin and was
preaching premature doctrine. His belief that
happiness consisted IN goodness and that goodness
living In harmony with the laws OF nature.