Article December 5, 1901 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Major Forest, W. C. Gannett, C. W. Chadwick, Laura Eathrop, Frances Mack Mann, F. A. Walker

There was a large attendance at the Iola Opera House, Thursday evening, October 24, 1901, to hear a lecture on Christian Science by the Hon. William G. Ewing of Chicago. The audience was very attentive throughout the lecture. The speaker was introduced by Major Forest, a prominent lawyer of Iola, in the following remarks:—

Friends:—From time immemorial, covering all past known ages, among all nations, tribes, and clans—whether in the snow-capped frigid, the mild and genial temperate, or the jungles of the torrid zones of the earth, as far as discovered, from the lowest known intelligence to the highest of intellectual attainments, the great problem, "If a man die, shall he live again?" has been propounded, discussed, and answered, according to the environments and intelligence of the respective localities. We find implanted in every class of human beings a desire to worship something animate or inanimate, real and tangible, or mythical and spiritual, but always as merely typical of something beyond.

In the fulness of time, by direct inspiration from the Creator, the world received the old dispensation through the prophets of ancient times, and later, the new dispensation of the meek and lowly Nazarene, through his disciples, thus giving to the whole human family that book of books, treasure of treasures, the Holy Bible, which from Genesis to Revelation, is accepted by Christian people, the world over, as the divine as well as the revealed law of Almighty God; as the guide of our faith and the rule for its practice; and all Christian people recognize it as their duty to search the Scriptures. This is one of its admonitions; it is the duty, as well as the highest privilege of every one, to search the Scriptures diligently and honestly in order to ascertain the truth.

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