PROFESSOR BLACKIE AND SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.
Professor Blackie, who is well known for Ms eccentricity and broad views regarding Sunday observance, delivered at Glasgow the other Sunday a lecture on Scottish love songs, to an audience of 4000 persons. In the course of his lecture the Professor said some people thought it profane to deliver such a lecture on Sunday, but he thought that what was harmless or good on week days could not be bad on Sunday. Ministers opposed his speaking on love songs and beautiful women, but clergymen usually sought for beautiful wives, especially if they possessed the addod advantage of a well-filled purse. For his own part, he liked to see a woman's beautiful face, but he never looked at her ankles. At the conclusion of the lecture, which provokedmuchcheeringandlaughter, Professor Blackie sang, to the intense delight of his auditors, the old Scotch ballad, "Will ye gang to Kelvin Grove." What would out strict friends of the "Cuddy Headrig
school " say to that if they were now alive? "Singing sangs" on Sabbath — Ma conscience !
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Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 37, 14 February 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)
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