Article November 23, 1899 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Edward H. Hammond, Carol Norton

Upward of two thousand Baltimoreans journeyed to the Lyceum Theatre Sunday afternoon, November 12, to hear Mrs. Sue Harper Mims, a member of the International Board of Lectureship of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass., deliver a lecture upon the doctrines of her faith. The house was crowded almost to the doors.

The lecture was given under the auspices of the First and Second Churches of this city. Mrs. Mims, the lecturer, is a native of Atlanta, and before her conversion was a social leader in the Georgia city. She was a warm personal friend of Jefferson Davis, General Joseph E. Johnston and other distinguished Southerners. Like many other converts, she was brought into the fold of the new faith by a personal experience of the efficacy of its disciples in healing disease. For fifteen years she was an invalid. Everything that medicine could offer to ease her suffering was unavailing, and she had given up all hope of recovery, when Christian Science and its teachings were brought to her attention. From that hour, according to her testimony, her lost health gradually returned.

Mrs. Mims soon became one of the most earnest Christian Scientists in the Church. To gain a better understanding of Christian Science, she received class instruction at Concord, N. H., from Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Mrs. Mims' high social position in the South rendered her conversion very conspicuous, and it was not long before she was the head of a zealous band of workers in her native State. The influence of her example and teachings has been such that Christian Science is now firmly established in a halfdozen Southern States.

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