Article November 30, 1899 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Correspondent, David C. Henning, Arthur R. Vosburgh, Abbott Edes Smith

Carol Norton, C.S.D., of New York, lectured to a large and intelligent audience in the Academy of Music at Pottsville, Pa., Tuesday evening, November 14. He was introduced by Judge David C. Henning, who spoke as follows: —

Ladies and Gentlemen: — Probably there is no subject that has engaged the human mind in all this world, in every age, so much as has the subject of religion. I believe I say advisedly, in the light of the history of mankind, that there has never been found an original people who did not have a religion, and who did not possess at least some glimmering ray of immortality.

When Confucius, who lived over eight hundred years before Christ, was asked, "Where does your religious philosophy come from?" he answered, "It comes from the teachings of the ancestry of twenty-nine hundred years ago." He is now considerred, in the Empire of China, their prophet.

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