Article March 27, 1920 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from William H. Greenleaf, Henry Germain, George F. Harper, Walter Lockwood Stevens, R. J. Chandler, Mae L. Hodgins, A. E. Higgins

Grand Forks, N. Dak. (First Church).—John Randall Dunn, lecturer, introduced by William H. Greenleaf, instructor in English at the University of North Dakota, who said in part:—

In presenting the speaker of the evening, may I call attention to the fact that you are investigating the most important topic known to man? What is man? What is his nature? What of his present and what of his future? What is the power that molds and that guides? These are some of the questions that you are asking. These are some of the questions that Christian Science aims to answer. The answer? Well, if there is an answer to these questions and if the answer given is correct, the key to our future has been found. Underlying every life problem, every struggle between capital and labor, every conflict between the nations, every lack, every sin, every sorrow, is the failure to understand the great truth, whatever it is, that controls the universe. Economics has its sphere, material science has its place, politics has its scope; but more important than any one of these,—yes, more important than all of these put together,—is the fundamental law of God and man. Find this, and build on it, and all other thoughts and action will relate themselves to the truth of being as steel filings arrange themselves along the lines of a magnet. Whatever there is of power or of lasting appeal in any man or any movement, is there because it rests upon the truth. Find the truth and the avenues to real accomplishment are open.

You will judge for yourselves, just as I judge for myself, whether this particular philosophy, known as Christian Science, offers you the key to truth. Whether in your judgment Christian Science is the truth or no, it does strike today the clearest note that is heard on land or sea. It compromises not with friend or foe. It is heard above the tumult of the battle field, in the midst of pestilence and want and woe. It is drawing to its standard men of thought and men of action,—lawyers, physicians, teachers, workmen of the farm and street. Opposed as no philosophy of modern times has ever been opposed, ridiculed as no creed has ever been ridiculed, this theory of life has gone steadily forward, and to-day its stately march is more positive, more uncompromising, more imposing than ever before. In a day of race hatred, in a day of class dissension, in a day of world unrest, it behooves us to think clearly and to think truly about that teaching which declares for the unlimited power of God and the inevitable triumph of the brotherhood of man; aye, to think clearly of that philosophy which makes deeds rather than words the test of a religious life.

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