Editorial April 26, 1900 Issue

Mr. Kimball's Lecture

Editor

Tuesday evening, April 24, 1900, witnessed an enlivening scene at Tremont Temple, Boston. It was the occasion of the lecture on the promises and fruits of Christian Science, by Edward A. Kimball, C.S.D., of Chicago. Mr. Kimball, although one of the original members of the Board of Lectureship, and although as such he had lectured all over the middle and far West, never before had appeared in Boston. He was invited by the Board of Directors of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston, Mass, to deliver the semi-annual lecture under the auspices of this church, and kindly responded to the invitation. The magnificent audience chamber of the Temple was filled to its full capacity with an expectant assemblage, eager to hear Mr. Kimball's exposition of his great theme. All the seating room was exhausted and many stood. From the first utterance to the last, Mr. Kimball's words were listened to with an intensity of interest seldom to be witnessed on any public occasion.

His fame as a lecturer had preceded him away beyond Christian Science circles, and much was expected of him from strangers and Scientists alike; nor were they disappointed. As a sound, practical, able, and convincing presentation of some of the leading phases of Christian Science, it would be difficult to conceive how Mr. Kimball's effort could have been improved upon. Calm and dispassionate, kindly in every reference to other sects and systems, yet strongly argumentative and replete with striking illustrations, was this lecture throughout. Of his manner the Boston Globe says:—

"He spoke in a simple, plain, forceful manner upon the promises and the fruits of Christian Science, and said that he owed his life to its system of healing."

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