Mr. Carol Norton, C.S.D., of New York City, a distinguished Christian Scientist, lectured to a large and representative audience in Massey Hall, Friday evening, May 26. At a conservative estimate twenty-eight hundred people were in attendance. Mayor Shaw presided, and from his introductory address it must be inferred that his Worship has not only studied the tenets of Christian Science but is a believer therein.

To the believers in the audience, as well as to those who were present from mere desire to hear what Mr. Norton had to say, the lecture proved of exceptional interest. His address was entitled, "Christian Science alias the Healing and Saving Power of Christianity." He spoke clearly and dispassionately, and made no attack upon other religions or creeds. He laid down the principle that Christian Science is not the discovery of a new thing so much as the recovery of a temporarily lost element of the Christian religion, and upon this basis he proceeded to place concisely before his hearers the authorities upon which the religion is founded.

In opening the meeting Mayor Shaw said, "I accepted the invitation to be present here this evening with a very great deal of pleasure, partly because the distinguished lecturer is an American citizen, and we are desirous of showing our American cousins that we reciprocate the cordial feelings which they express toward us, and partly because the subject is an interesting one, namely, Christian Science, whose adherents are numbered to-day by millions. Christ, as you know, commanded his first followers to heal the sick and give alms to the poor; and his commands are just as binding on the Christians of this age as on those who followed him about, gathered around him, and sat at his feet and listened to his teachings. I do not know if there is any authority in the Scriptures for the use of medicine for the curing of diseases. With authority came power to heal, and the sick were healed without medicine, and the same power is given to those who believe in Christianity to-day. The believers in the teachings of our Lord have the same power to heal as had his first followers. To the patient, I suppose, it makes not a great deal of difference how he gets better. But the grand benefit of Christian Science in healing the body is that the mind also is healed, the mental condition is improved, and he moral system elevated."