Article September 27, 1900 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from D. G. Cash

Judge Joseph R. Clarkson of Omaha, lectured at the Lyceum last evening (Thursday, September 13) on Christian Science. The theatre was filled and the audience was a very attentive and evidently a studious one, for the speaker was followed closely throughout the discourse. Judge Clarkson is a man who has won distinction at the bar of Omaha, having been a partner of Senator Thurston and associated in much important litigation. He is a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Christian Science Church. His voice is very distinct and his enunciation perfect so that not a word was lost. He talked for a considerable length of time and his lecture was thorough and comprehensive.

D. G. Cash introduced Judge Clarkson, saying:—

Ladies and Gentlemen:— No one can look far into the centuries past without being deeply impressed with the progress which man has made in subjugating the forces of nature and making them obedient to his will; and we usually indulge in a feeling of pride when we contemplate the especially rapid progress our race has made during the last half of the present century. We like to draw a contrast between the rude implements and weapons with which our remote ancestors carried on their war for supremacy over the forces of nature and the powerful machinery in use to-day; and with the delicate instruments by which we are enabled to transmit messages almost instantaneously from one end of the world to the other; carry on conversations in ordinary tone of voice with friends hundreds of miles away; store up the human voice in wax receptacles and reproduce it at will in future years; photograph running animals, flying birds, and projectiles fired from a gun while at full speed, and the still more delicate and ingenious instruments by means of which scientists carry on their work of investigating other worlds, and are amazed at the marvelous advance that has been made, the almost miraculous results already accomplished, and wonder at the possibilities of the future.

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