Article February 9, 1924 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from William E. Mc-Mahan, Mary Dodson Swift, Sarah E. Fergusson, Cora Fern Rosebrook, Blanche Schmidt, Mercedes O'Meally

St. Louis, Mo. (Fourth Church).—William E. Mc-Mahan made the following remarks when introducing Miss Margaret Murney Glenn, a Christian Science lecturer, to her audience:—

Almost twenty years ago I attended a Christian Science lecture for the first time. I was then an active member of another church and a faithful devotee of the family doctor, who was a frequent visitor at my home. My wife and I were carrying in anguish a great sorrow, and much to my disturbance she was seeking help in the earnest study of Christian Science. I thought I knew what it was, and was very much prejudiced against it. A friend, who was not a Christian Scientist, to whom I was much obligated, asked me as a personal favor to attend a Christian Science lecture; and I very reluctantly consented, because I knew not how to refuse. During that lecture it was as if scales dropped from my eyes; and I saw and realized for the first time in my life the power and availability of God's love. Truly, "there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come high thy dwelling." We have learned how to drop our "burden at His feet, and bear a song away;" and we have been able to prove many times that this truth is a strong deliverer, which will guide us into the land where, as Mrs. Eddy says on page 227 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "fetters fall and the rights of man are fully known and acknowledged."

Miami, Fla. (First Church).—Introducing Mrs. Blanche K. Corby, a Christian Science lecturer, to her audience, Mrs. Mary Dodson Swift said in part:—

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