Article March 6, 1902 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Frank H. Gould, Charles H. Clarke, J. A. Plummer, S. S. Brown, M. B. Rosenberry

Judge William G. Ewing of Chicago, of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, Boston, lectured on Sunday afternoon, February 16, before an audience that filled Metropolitan Hall. He was introduced by the Hon. Frank H. Gould, former Speaker of the Assembly of California and now a prominent lawyer in this city, in the following words:—

Ladies and Gentlemen:—I have been requested to introduce to you to-day some one with whom you are doubtless far more familiar, most of you, than I am myself. While I cannot say that I am a disbeliever in the doctrine that he teaches, I think that the feeling I have comes nearer, probably, to non-belief than anything else—neither a believer nor a disbeliever, but one who is willing to learn.

The human race is fortunately so constituted that its course from the earliest recorded times has been one of continual progress. Sometimes, of course, the waves would go higher and then recede, but as a whole the growth of the human race has been continually upward, and there has been a continual development of mankind. From time to time great principles and great truths that had not been dreamed of have been discovered. And it is fortunate that such is the case; for it the whole magnitude of God's providence, as displayed in the material world, had been unfolded to mankind with the first flash of intelligence in man, it is somewhat doubtful whether or not those things might not have been a curse rather than a benefit to man. And so, as history is made, these great discoveries one after another come along as the mind of man is fitted to receive and utilize them.

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