Article February 28, 1901 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Carrie Harvey Snider

Under the auspices of Third Church of Christ, Scientist, the Rev. Arthur R. Vosburgh, C.S.B., member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., delivered a lecture in the Ellerslie, 82 West 126th Street. Thursday evening, (February 14), on the subject, "Christian Science is Scientific Christianity." About four hundred persons were present, the sexes being pretty evenly divided, and at the close of his address Mr. Vosburgh received a hearty round of applause.

Mrs. Carrie Harvey Snider, C.S.D., who presided, in introducing Mr. Vosburgh, said: "Dear friends, as my eyes rest on this audience before me, involuntarily my thoughts travel swiftly backward over a space of eight years, and three retrospective pictures present themselves. First in this group I see a little company of men and women, but nine in number, starting out to plant the first seeds of Christian Science in Harlem. For this purpose they engaged a small front room in the Hamilton Bank Building. there to meet and study the Bible and the Christian Science text-book, 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures' by Mary Baker G. Eddy, the Discoverer, Founder, and Leader of Christian Science. In the earnest, faithful devotion of this small Bible class was laid the foundation of the present work. The second picture is one year later, where in the same building, but in larger quarters, the original company is found gathered together with added numbers, numbers drawn from the inexhaustible ranks of those men, women, and children who ever seek to learn more of and to come closer to, God. The third picture, three years later, finds us in our present place, and indeed at that time, although we have outgrown our old quarters, our numbers were still small enough to make this hall appear very spacious; but it has steadily filled until now the hall begins to seem small in comparision with our ever-increasing congregation, and to-day we can say with deep thankfulness that our work of establishing Christian Science in Harlem has been abundantly blessed with rich fruit and 'signs following,' as promised to us all in the Scriptures by Jesus the Christ, through the healing, physically, morally, and spiritually. I have the pleasure of introducing to you the lecturer of the evening, the Rev. Arthur R. Vosburgh, C.S.B., member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass."—Harlem Local Reporter.

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