Article July 13, 1899 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Ellen E. Everson, P. I. Kinsinger

Edward A. Kimball of Chicago, lectured Wednesday, June 28, to a large audience on Christian Science. It was given under the auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist, at the church edifice corner of Fourteenth and K Streets. His object was to enlighten people on the true meaning of Christian Science. Hon. E. E. Brown, a prominent lawyer and banker of the city, presided at the meeting, and introduced the speaker by a few remarks as follows :—

Ladies and Gentlemen:—When I accepted the invitation extended to me by the ladies of this congregation, to be present on this occasion and introduce the speaker of the evening, my only regret was my ignorance of the subject we have assembled to hear discussed, and owing to pressing business engagements, I should be unable to give any thought to what I might be expected to say concerning it.

Christian Science is to most of us still in its infancy, but this is an age of rapid development and scientific research, and I am not sorry to learn that some of our best thinkers and brightest intellects are giving to this subject a careful and thorough investigation. History teaches us that the promulgation of every newly discovered scientific truth, and more particularly those which pertain to our moral and spiritual well being, meet with strong opposition, and not unfrequently with the ridicule and contempt of the conservative element of society. But it is not to the conservative element of society, that the world is most deeply indebted for its rapid development of either scientific or spiritual truth, but rather to the radical minority, who, when they discover a truth, have the courage to proclaim it, and are not deterred from so doing, through fear that it may not meet with public favor, and render them unpopular.

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