Article October 11, 1900 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Charles E. Finlay

Edward A. Kimball, C.S.D., of Chicago, lectured to an audience of ten thousand persons in Convention Hall yesterday afternoon (Sunday, September 30). Mr. Kimball is a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church of Christian Science, of Boston. The lecture was held under the auspices of the First and Second Churches of Christ, Scientist, of this city. Each church, out of a fund provided for such purposes, bears the expense of the lectures in its own field. In this case the two Kansas City churches combined.

Mr. Kimball said it was the largest audience he had ever addressed. The arena floor was packed long before three o'clock, the hour set for opening the meeting. The east and west arena balconies were filled, several hundreds occupied the colonnade balconies, and there was a large overflow into the tiers of seats in the south end of the building, where it was difficult to hear. The decorations left over from the Home Products show and utilized for the Roosevelt demonstration, served to ornament and enliven the hall for this occasion.

The joint committee which arranged the lecture was composed as follows:—

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