p. 16 | A Popular Lecture

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 28, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 17.

A Popular Lecture

On Sunday evening, the 17th inst., Elder Francis Hope delivered a lecture in our church in this city, on “The Alarm of War.” There was the largest audience that has been gathered in the church for several years. The lecture was illustrated by a large number of stereopticon views, showing, (1) prophetic signs of the end of the world; (2) progress in modern naval warfare; (3) scenes in Cuba, and (4) Christ, the Prince of Peace; with other pictures illustrative of various phases of Gospel work in the last days. The lecture was fraught with interest, and was especially instructive as indicating how the spirit of war is permeating the hearts of the masses of the people in the so-called Christian nations, being inculcated in the minds of even the little school-children; and, on the other hand, how the true Christian can have no sympathy with war, much less an active hand in it. The subject is one well suited to the times, and the large gathering was evidence of the interest in it.