Article December 14, 1899 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from R. G. Cole, Robert L. Ziller, C. B. Daughters, Professor Vickrey

Under the auspices of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Grinnell, la., Tuesday, October 31, in the Congregational Church, a lecture on Christian Science was delivered by Mr. Edward A. Kimball, C.S.D. The speaker was introduced by Prof. R. G. Cole, who said : —

It is undeniably true that in no previous period of the word's history have such numerous and earnest efforts been made to search out Truth and find it, as are being made at the present moment. How to sweeten life; how to lessen its sorrows and its burdens and destroy its pains and its sins; to express in our own lives and teach others to express in their lives that spirit of Christ whose mandate is "love one another," these are questions whose careful and honest discussion distinguish these closing years of the nineteenth century from previous period.

It is not strange, in such numerous manifestations of this desire for Truth and righteousness, this common longing of humanity, that men should differ sometimes fundamentally, sometimes merely superficially, as to what Truth really is. Truth itself is infinite and unchangeable, but human conceptions of it have varied, largely because of the different view-points of those seeking it, and the incompleteness of their vision. There has been but one complete revelation of Truth, the revelation that was given us in the life and works of the lowly Nazarene, but wher-ever and whenever among men there have been visions of the realization and livableness of this life, there and then have been raised mile-stones marking the upward progress of humanity toward that universal condition of sonship to God which the Scripture gives us ample proof is our lawful heritage.

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