Article May 18, 1899 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Ada J. Miller, Belle Black, O. Clute, H. Graybill, M. A. Hughes, D. Bromfield, Alex. G. Tyng, E. J. Harrah, Charles Rockwell

The Unitarian Church was well filled Monday evening, April 24, at the lecture of Dr. A. A. Sulcer on "The Science of Christian Science." Rev. O. Clute, LL. D., pastor of the Unitarian Church, introduced the speaker. He said,—

Over the entrance to one of the most famous of the ancient schools was the legend, "Know Thyself." Nearly all the great leaders of man have in some form given the same direction. That "the proper study of mankind is man" seems, thus, to be the general conviction.

As soon as a man begins carefully to study man he learns that there is something in man which we call mind, and that this mind is the most important part of the man. By aid of mind man studies himself and all things else. Mind organizes human governments, subdues and cultivates the earth, makes roads over the highest mountains and across the most dreary deserts, sails frail vessels over the stormiest seas, studies the earth and the skies and learns from them the laws of nature, which are the laws of God. Mind sings the songs that arouse love and patriotism, paints the pictures that express the artist's noblest dreams, carves the statues that reveal the entrancing loveliness of the human body, writes the scores that, being interpreted by the human voice or some instrument played by the human hand, fill the very heavens with melody. Mind carries us to the presence of the Eternal, reads for us the story of His power and glory, of His love and wisdom as they are revealed to us in the world of matter and the world of man. Such is the beauty, the dignity, and the glory with which we were endowed when the Creator "made man in His own image."

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