Article July 12, 1900 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from W.F. Dutton

Judge William G. Ewing of Chicago, lectured at the Armory Monday evening (June 25) on the subject of Christian Science, under the auspices of the local Christian Science organization. Notwithstanding the extreme heat of the evening four hundred persons, including many of the best people of the city, came out to hear the subject discussed, and they were repaid by listening to a calm, scholarly discussion of a much misunderstood subject. This is the first time local Christian Scientists have appeared before the public and marks an epoch in that organization. The speaker was introduced by W.F. Dutton, who said in part :—

The words Christian and Science, are the two largest words in the vocabulary of the English language, and their meaning, in connection with the mighty movement which they designate, perhaps the least understood.

Humanity is crying out for more practice and less preaching; more of that Mind which was in Christ Jesus, and less of the medicine that he never used; more of the love which he lived, and less observance of material laws. It wants the minister who can heal the sick as well as the sinful. It wants the physician who can bind up the broken hearted, as well as the crushed limb. It wants the lawyer who can quell the storms of passion and selfishness and lead his client away from the law of "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," into the divine idea of loving his neighbor as himself. Science declares that all these things are right, and the highest style of Christian will demonstrate these declarations and thus be Christianly Scientific, and Scientifically Christian.

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