Article November 17, 1898 Issue

MR. KIMBALL AT SALT LAKE CITY

Mr. Kimball recently lectured to a crowded house in the Theatre at Salt Lake City. The following is the introduction to the large audience by Mr. Lewis B. Coates:—

Friends, Ladies, and Gentlemen:—This is the first time in the history and growth of Christian Science in Salt Lake City, that we have had the pleasure of presenting to a public audience, in an official way, some of the facts about Christian Science as well as correcting some of the prejudices and misconceptions on this subject.

All nations agree that the sick should be healed and that the sinful should be saved; but how is disease healed and how are the sinful to be saved? Is not sin largely the cause of disease, and is not disease of a mental and not of a material origin? These are some of the vital questions of this age; and as Christian Science has cured thousands of the so-called "incurables," and has reclaimed other thousands of the hopelessly sinful, we feel that Christian Science is answering these questions—not by lectures upon public platforms nor by sermons from the pulpit, but by the demonstration of Truth and the silent cultivation of its virtues in the daily lives of those who are accepting Christianity as Science. As Christian Science is thus demonstrating its way into general recognition, we feel that we have not forgotten the necessary modesty and truthfulness of statement when we say that Christianity is Science and that Christian Science is before the world to-day as the most effective curative agent known to humanity. Inasmuch as there have been so many misconceptions upon this subject, it has been thought best by those in authority in our denomination to establish a Board of Lectureship, whose privilege it is to give some of the facts, as well as to correct some of the fictions, on this subject. For this purpose we have the pleasure of introducing to you Mr. Edward A. Kimball of Chicago, who speaks, not for the church in Salt Lake City, but for the entire denomination.

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