Article January 18, 1900 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from R. A. Pearson, Mattie C. Bishop, A. E. Hickman, William P. Andrew

Edward A. Kimball of Chicago, delivered a lecture on Christian Science at the Club Theatre, Tuesday evening, December 12, to a large audience, under the auspices of Second Church of Christ, Scientist.

Mr. Kimball was introduced by Lawyer R. A. Pearson of this city, who spoke as follows:—

Ladies and Gentleman:— If there is anything the history of human thought has served to impress, it is certainly a lesson of tolerance. To whatever phase of its unfolding the mind reverts, the most amazing and the most pathetic feature of its growth and greatness is the contempt and derision, the hate and persecution, through which it has come as through fire. We are debtors to the folly and futility of others; and the heroism that irradiates such names as Garrison and Phillips, Kepler and Columbus, Luther and Paul, are not more a heritage than an admonition. And we are not infallible, not even yet, and the very brilliance of modern achievement but serves to bring into bolder relief the shadows that bound and embarrass all assurance. There are signs and wonders, portents on every hand, that might give us pause. Socially, politically, morally, everywhere a deep unrest, and men as never before are revolving the enigma of life, and seeking to know the compass and equivalence of that greatest of questions, "What is truth?"

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