The Lectures

with contributions from F. W. Robertson, John Freeman Linscott

At Washington, D. C.

Every seat, up stairs and down, in the National Theatre was occupied yesterday (Sunday, March 24) by an interested audience to listen to a lecture by Mrs. Livingston Mims of Atlanta, Ga. The speaker is one of the principal advocates of Christian Science. The lecture was entitled, "Jesus in Christian Science," and was most interesting. Mrs. Mims was introduced by Capt. John Freeman Linscott, First Reader of First Christian Science Church of this city.—Washington Post.

Captain Linscott said:—

Dear Friends:—The discovery, introduction, and demonstration of Christianity as a Science which heals from sin and disease by the same process, has startled both Christian and the medical world. All Christian thinkers who have been trained in the law of human thought; int the law of hope and human faith; in the moral law; and in physical law, so-called can see that these are but lower forms or shadowing manifestations of the one infinite Mind in action, the Creator of the universe and the human creature, which our Master called "the kingdom of God." Paul called it "the law of the Spirit of life in

Christ Jesus," which makes "free from the law of sin and death,"—the carnal mind, or our ignorance of God as Truth.

The spiritual understanding and demonstration of this spiritual law, gained through right reason and the revelation of Spirit, fulfils the moral law, the law of human hope faith, the law of human thought, physical law, ecclesiastical law, civil law, commercial law, and all national and international law. This law of Spirit is the expression of the uncreated Mind and uncreated Wisdom, which is God, and His Christ, whom Jesus taught us to call Father. This law understood is Christian Science, and is defined by Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of the Science, as "the law of God, the law of Good, interpreting and demonstrating the Principle and rule of universal harmony."

We felt sure you would be pleased to hear a lecture on the subject, and this magnificent audience assures us. It is a very rare occasion for us all. First, because of the rare ability of the lecturer, and second, because she is a daughter of the sunny Southland, a descendant of old Georgia's intellecutal and moral best, a former leader in social funtions among states and dignitaries, the wife of Major Mims, the Mayor of Atlanta, Ga.

It is my distinguished honor to introduce Mrs. Sue Harper Mims of Atlanta, Ga., member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., who will discourse for us on the subject of "Jesus in Christian Science."—Correspondence.

At Auburn, N. Y.

"Christian Science is Scientific Christianity." was the subject of an interesting and timely address, yesterday (Sunday, March 3) at Music Hall under the auspices of the local First Church of Christ, Scientist, by Rev. Arthur R. Vosburgh, C.S.B., of Rochester. The hall was well filled and it is not it paying too much honor to W. D. Baldwin, a quondam Auburnian now of New York, to say that many were attracted by the announcement that he would introduce the lecturer.

Mr. Baldwin's old friends, irrespective of church affiliations, were delighted to find that he had lost none of the graces that had endeared him to a wide circle of friends when a mere boy here in old Auburn. That was more than a quarter of a century ago.

He remarked in his introductory address that he had been well grounded in the orthodox belief and he little thought that he would some day be converted by the principles of Christian Science. Study and the observation of its healing power in his own family had convinced him it was the true faith. Everybody within sound of his voice probably believed in the Omnipotence of God, and yet in case of emergence how few were content to depend upon God alone without calling in outside aid. New ideas in science, politics, or religion always met with opposition, much of the time through ignorance. The Mothere Church in Boston had formed a board of lectureship to disseminate information concerning Christian Science, and the Rev. Arthur R. Vosburgh, C.S.B., was one of the chosen lecturers. He was probably not unknown in Auburn, inasmuch as he had spent three years as a student in Auburn Theological Seminary.—Auburn Daily Advertiser.

Lectures at Other Places.

Fairbury, Ill.—William G. Ewing, February, 22.
Canton, O.—William G. Ewing, March IO.
Rome, N. Y.—Carol Norton, March IO.

The rest of Christ is not that of torpor, but of harmony. It is not refusing the struggle, but conquering in it; not resting from duty, but finding rest in duty.

F. W. Robertson.

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