Article February 16, 1899 Issue

The Lectures

The free lecture on Christian Science, delivered at the theatre on the evening of January 23 by Edward A. Kimball, C.S.D., of Chicago, who is sent out by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston, was largely attended. Nearly every seat on the lower floor was occupied, while many were seated in the balcony. Mr. Kimball appeared here under the auspices of the First Church of Christ of this city.

His lecture was devoted largely to wonderful cures attained through Christian Science, and he cited several cases which, if true, are marvelous. He said that all cures produced by drugs can also be produced by Christian Science, and many people who had tried all remedies were finally cured by it. There are sometimes failures, said he, and Christian Scientists do not pretend that they have reached the point where failures are impossible. There are now over five thousand persons being treated in the city of Chicago every day, and during the past eighteen years there have not been one hundred deaths under the treatment.

When there are failures, Mr. Kimball said, the Associated Press telegraphs the news all over the country, that "another victim of Christian Science had died."

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