Article June 1, 1899 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Lydia E. Brown, A. Oswald, J. P. C., F. J. Knight, S. M. Norton, Rev. Mr. Bulkeley, Mary Gibson, Aaron Clark, E. W. Budd, Van Ness

Mrs. Annie M. Knott of Detroit, Mich., lectured to a large audience in Cooper's Opera House, in Beloit, Kan., May 5. One of the local papers published the address in full. Mrs. Knott was introduced by Attorney F. J. Knight, who spoke in part as follows:—

Ladies and Gentlemen:— We are met this evening to listen to a recital of the history and a statement of the principles of Christian Science. I need not assure you that they will be clearly and ably given.

From what I read in the newspapers of the day it seems to me that ere now your speaker of the evening must be soul-weary of the nightly iteration from the platform by respectable gentlemen that they "don't believe in Christian Science." Out of merciful consideration for her patience I purposely refrain from announcing my predilections. That is a question which can have very little interest for you. As the lawyers say, it is "incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial." It is a matter of trivial significance to you what I may believe, or what another individual, or many other individuals, may believe, or may not believe, in regard to Christian Science. The important thing for you is to learn what Christian Science is, and what Christian Science does. That I take to be the purpose for which you are here this evening.

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