Editorial October 10, 1901 Issue

Judge Ewing's Lecture

Editor

If any additional evidence of the unflagging interest in Christian Science were needed, it was forthcoming on Tuesday evening. October 8, 1901, at Symphony Hall, Boston, on the occasion of Judge Ewing's lecture. This lecture was held under the auspices of the Mother Church, and certainly, from every point of view, it was a most gratifying success. The great and beautiful hall was filled to the extent of its seating capacity, including the capacious stage. The stage was reserved until a few moments before the lecture began, when the doors leading to it were thrown open and it was quickly filled.

The number present could not have fallen far short of three thousand, and in point of intelligence and evident appreciation of all that was said, the large audience was all that could be desired or hoped for in any public gathering. For almost two hours Judge Ewing held his audience up to a point of interest approaching the highest intensity. In no part of the great chamber, during this time, was there the slightest evidence of uneasiness or lack of interest from beginning to end.

Of the lecture itself it may be said, without any suggestion of flattery, that it was masterly in its every aspect. Its logic was sound, its rhetoric superb, its simplicity grand. One of the lecturer's strong points is his deep sincerity. his honesty of statement and earnestness of manner. But stronger than all else, he had a subject,—a subject in which he is wholly absorbed, a subject which he knows throughout the whole compass of his being includes a message from God to man, the understanding and heeding of which will bring harmony and happiness to earth. Hence the depth and breath of his sincerity.

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