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Evening Star, Issue 14185, 9 October 1909, Page 8

RELIGIOUS. J£EB£ MONDAY NIGHT KEEP FREE , Bn. Q. H. OOLBS HUMOROUS AND PATHETIC BTHTtr, lu the GARRISON HALL. llte (rated by 100 Transparencies. Admission: Adults, Is} Children, 6d. rfYEEOSOPHIOAL Society.-—Lecture by J. Mr D. W, M. Bum, M.A., ‘New Heavens and a New Earth, wherein Dwelleth Righteousness.’ Board Boom, His Majesty’s Theatre, 6.30 pjn. OPIEITtJAL Scientists, Oddfellows’ Hall,, O Albany street.—Sunday, 7 p.m., Mrs S. E. Morrison, N.A.P., Trance Address, fol- _ by Psychometry, Clairvoyance. Collection. Reserved seats extra. ALBANY STEEET School, Pelichet Bay. —Evangelistic Service for grown-up Pr°Pj? every Sunday. To-morrow evening Mr D. Wright and Mr Alexander Kenans will take part, CHORAL HALL, Moray pIace.—SUNDAY EVENING SERVICE, at 7 o’clock. Preacher, Mr W. MAT.T.TR All are cordially invited. "CIVOLUTION.—Darwin and his followers J_i deny a Divine revelation, reject God’s offer of eternal life, and die without hope. Lecture and discussion at Bible Research meeting tomorrow afternoon. Scientific unbelievers invited. fiHEISTADBLPHIAN HALL, Moray place VV (opposite New Library).—Lecture, Sunday, 6.30. Ail invited, no collection. Morning Meeting, 11; Sunday School, 10.

The Thirteen superstition is the most widespread of all, and it is very seldom that one meets anyone who can justify it out of his own experience. But an American commercial traveller, who refused to be one N of thirteen at dinner the other day at a Fife hotel, and who waited till the other twelve guests had finished their, meal, had something to go on. When the number of his father’s family, including the parents, had reached thirteen, “something happened.” In later life, when he was persuaded to sit down thirteen at table, “something happened” again. It would be objected that something is bound to happen, sooner or later, to one of eleven children, and the thirteen superstition ought to have been finally exploded by the discovery that the only passenger who escaped alive from the wreck ofthc Drummond Castle occupied berth 13.