MR BRIGHT'S LECTURES.
■ The new Hall of the ■ Athenaeum was?' opened on Sunday evening last, wheri 'Mr ;o Charles Bright lectured" before 3 "a ij full !i house, on "Religious Catholicity v; lrtfe- * figious Sectarianism." He refOTred'.tp'.' 1 the varioua systems of religion, showing 11 that as each one evolved from the "other, catholicity* was its aim, 5 and that "JheV breaking up of a system into numerous I sects was 1 but- an incident of transition 1 * from the catholicity of State, ,cdmplilsiaa/ t to the catholicity which would arise frpm l free thought, and the teachings of science; t< The Hall, which. is one. of the ■ finest hin I Dunedin, will accommodate comfortably i an audience of four hundred, but if closely packed,. willjhold fifty more^ It/is^we'll;.* lit up, and the acoustic properties are ex-!! celient. . tyr ,, Bright, we hear,, contend plates visiting Wellington, Auckland, and a Sydney in the course of two months, when ** he will probably return to Dunedin.-' Hia : next lecture .will : be upon "'Education^ and ßeligion." ■ ' ' .*.'-i
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Otago Witness, Issue 1342, 18 August 1877, Page 16
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