The Hon. William G. Ewing has been delivering lectures in London and Manchester, England; in Edinburgh, Scotland; and in other places in Europe.

Our reports indicate that Judge Ewing's lectures are arousing much interest in the subject of Christian Science wherever he appears, and many are learning of it who heretofore have had incorrect or distorted views. The English press are treating the lectures with fairness and even kindly consideration.

That immeasurable good will result from the Judge's tour abroad, is an assured fact. All Christian Scientists and friends of our great Cause on this side the water rejoice with their brethren of foreign shores in their good fortune.

In London.

From London we receive the following report:—

"Judge Ewing lectured in the Queen's Hall, London, on Tuesday, May 6, to a deeply attentive audience of over two thousand people. The lecturer was introduced by Major the Hon. William C. Rowley, one of the Board of Management of this church. Deep gratitude is felt and expressed by the members of this church, both for the lecture itself, and especially to our dear Leader, whose loving provision for its needs is always gratefully appreciated by her church in London. I enclose the chairman's introduction and the reports of the lecture from The Times, and The Daily Telegraph, the two leading London papers. C. V. Spiller. "Clerk of First Church of Christ, Scientist, London, Eng."

Major the Hon. W. C. Rowley, introduced the lecturer as follows:—

"Ladies and Gentlemen:—It is my pleasing duty to-day, to introduce our lecturer on Christian Science. Judge Ewing was formerly a distinguished member of the American Bench, from which he was nearly obliged to retire seventeen years ago, owing to an affliction that eminent medical advisers declared incurable. He was lifted out of this by the healing power of Christian Science, and was enabled to remain on the bench and to continue working at his profession for many years with entire immunity from physical disability. Becoming, however, wearied with politics and worldliness in general, and having studied Christian Science thoroughly, he saw the benefits it was conferring on mankind; he then gave up his profession and devoted himself to the work in which we now find him.

"Judge Ewing is a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church in Boston, America, and during the last two years has traveled fifty thousand miles a year to enable him to fulfil his lecturing engagements.

"Allow me to introduce to you our lecturer, Judge William G. Ewing."

The London Times contains the following account of the lecture:—

"A lecture on Christian Science was delivered by the Hon. William G. Ewing, late Judge of the Superior Court, Illinois, at Queen's Hall, on Tuesday afternoon. After a short introduction by Major the Hon. W. C. Rowley, who said that Judge Ewing was a distinguished member of the American Bar and Bench, the Judge said that the general impression of the people who have not investigated Christian Science was that its sole purpose was physical cure, and that it was something for to-day only, and not for the future. The truth was that physical healing was but an incident of Christian Science. It was true that Christian Scientists insisted that it gave peace for pain, health for disease, and life for death to man; and yet neither one of these, nor all of them combined, was Christian Science. They were the results only, but Christian Science was a religion pure and simple. Christian Scientists were simply trying to live the life Jesus lived. His mission was not only to preach the Gospel, but to heal the sick. The declaration of Jesus to his disciples, 'The works that I do ye shall do also,' was made to the people of this day as certainly as to the apostles and the people among whom they wrought, and Christian Scientists had demonstrated that they had been included in this declaration of the Master by accomplishing many of the marvelous works that Jesus did. The chief opposition Christian Science had to combat was the prejudice inherited from past generations. Many people held the opinion that Christian Science was so far beyond the limits of belief that it was of no use to give their attention to the matter. Christian Science had been practised for about thirty-three years; in a very weak manner at first, but with increasing energy later. Within twenty-five years, in the United States alone, about a million, including both sexes and all ages, in every variety and condition of climate, had been treated by Christian Science methods, and cured of all manner of diseases, covering the whole range of mortal afflictions, and some twenty per cent of these had been given up by material science as hopeless. There had been failures, it was true; but the percentage of these had been much smaller than that of failures under material methods. It was strange that one of the objections urged against Christian Science was that it was the product of a woman, when it was evident that that fact inevitably carried with it two conclusions—one being that it was absolutely honest, and the other being that it was absolutely pure. This should be remembered in a country that had been ruled over by a woman for sixty years, who had given to it a prosperity and a power for good that the world had never before known."

The Daily Telegraph thus referred to the lecture:—

"It was a somewhat surprising evidence of the general interest taken in Christian Science that Queen's Hall, Langham Place, should have been occupied yesterday afternoon by a very large audience to hear an address on the subject. The lecturer was the Hon. William G. Ewing, formerly a judge of the Superior Court, Illinois, who, as the chairman (Major the Hon. W. C. Rowley) stated, owes his health to Christian Science, and has during the past few years traveled fifty thousand miles in advocating it. Mr. Ewing, while asserting that Christian Science was a religion of which the cures that had been effected by its aid were onl a small part, acknowledged that in the public eye they took great prominence, and he therefore asked for a fair consideration of its victories over disease by the same standards as those which are applied to the treatment by material methods by physicians. He conceded that the practice of Christian Science had not been an unbroken success; there had even been some fatalities, but, as compared with the statistics for ordinary medicine, these failures were so few that in the case of drugs they would hardly have been reckoned at all. In the whole life of Christian Science the aggregate fatalities under its practice in twelve of the United States, during a period of thirty years, were not equal to the deaths occurring under material medicine in any one week in the last two years in the cities of Chicago and Greater New York. Over a million cures, he claimed, had been effected, covering the whole range of mortal afflictions.

In Manchester.

Judge Ewing also lectured in Manchester, England, May 8, to a large audience. A correspondent—a Christian Scientist who was present—thus interestingly writes of this occasion:—

"This evening in Manchester at Memorial Hall, Judge Ewing delivered another lecture to an audience that filled the place to overflowing,—a very large representative audience, and this from a community that less than five years ago had probably never heard of Christian Science. The lecture was a triumph and a feast.

"Most Americans are surprised, and no doubt many of our countrymen will be, to know that within a radius of thirty miles from Manchester there is a population of nearly eight million."

The Manchester Courier gave the following account of the lecture:—

"The Memorial Hall, Manchester, was filled last night with a select audience who had assembled to hear from the Hon. William G. Ewing, an ex-Judge of the Superior Court of Illinois, U.S.A., an exposition of the faith of the Christian Scientists. This body have already a place of meeting in Manchester, and a considerable following. The Earl of Dunmore presided, and, with his daughter, the Lady Victoria Murray, is an ardent believer and expounder of the faith, as they believe it has been delivered to the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy of New Hampshire, U.S.A., with its power to heal those who believe.

"Lord Dunmore said he was no stranger to a Manchester audience, and his daughter had been intimately connected with the work of Christian Science in the city for some time. The lecturer was, he said, a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church of Christian Science at Boston, U.S.A. The teachings of Christian Science were in perfect harmony with the teachings of Christ. Though the religious world was slow to accept any new departure from its old established position, still they were sure that the sun had set upon the day when bigotry, intolerance, and superstition could bar the way to religious progress. Christian Scientists believed and taught the theology of nineteen hundred years ago. They also believed that the word of their Master was the truth, and that the truth was within the reach of all, so that those who could arrive at the understanding of that theology could frame and regulate their lives so as to live up to it. It was the theology of Christ that healed the sick, and not his personality.

"The Hon. W. G. Ewing then gave a long and discursive address, in the course of which he said the growth of Christian Science in Manchester had been rapid and most satisfactory. He then proceeded to show that Christian Science was not antagonistic to the religion of Jesus Christ, but was the same religion. It was not a sort of intangible, untouchable, inexplicable something that no one could explain, nor was it a sort of patent medicine that had never been patented. They said that in God they lived, and moved, and had their being,—that is, had life, health, and immortality, yet they immediately went out to their doctor, or druggist, or some fresh climate for their health. He then showed how all Christian churches had advanced in their conception of Christianity, and pleaded that there was no reason why we to-day should be bound by the dogmas of our forefathers. He showed how their faith embraced all the essentials of the old churches, and then referred to the revelation which they held had been vouchsafed to the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, which she had incorporated in her work on the subject. That work, after the most careful study, he declared was founded entirely on the Bible. Her claim, which they supported, was that she had discovered the means whereby suffering, crying, cringing men of earth to-day might invoke the healing power and love of God for their emancipation from suffering, sorrow, and sickness, just as it was invoked nineteen hundred years ago. Christ's commission was to preach the Gospel by healing the sick, and Christian Scientists believed his promise that signs would follow their preaching. In conclusion, he claimed that they had demonstrated the efficiency of metaphysical healing, and, therefore, the truth of Christian Science."

The Daily Dispatch, the Manchester Guardian, and the North Express, also contained fair reports of the meeting and of the lecture.

At Edinburgh.

May 10, Judge Ewing lectured at Edinburgh, Scotland, to a large audience. The following account was published in The Scotsman of that city:—

"Under the auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Edinburgh, a lecture on Christian Science was delivered on Saturday afternoon in the Music Hall, Edinburgh, by the Hon. William G. Ewing, formerly Judge of the Superior Court, Illinois, U.S.A. The audience numbered about fifteen hundred persons, of whom quite eighty per cent were ladies. A few clergymen were present. Mr. T. P. Laird occupied the chair, and introduced the lecturer, who, he said, having been healed of a disease through Christian Science, and being convinced of the absolute truth of its teachings, resolved to retire from the bench and devote himself to the spread of the new-old healing gospel. It had already brought health and happiness and peace to many a home. It had done so to not a few in Scotland, and after that lecture, which was for the purpose of removing misunderstanding and misconceptions, he believed it would do so still more in the future.

"Mr. Ewing said that being a Scotsman by descent, and coming from a country to which Scotland had given so much, it afforded him great pleasure to have an opportunity of speaking in Scotland on a subject which was very near to his heart. He was not there for the purpose of proselytizing—for the purpose of making Christian Scientists out of his audience. That they would have to do for themselves if it was ever to be accomplished, and they would have to do it in the same way as they had made themselves great musicians, or great artists, or great painters,—by the most persistent and earnest study and absolute devotion to the work. No one could say that he knew what Christian Science was till he could say he was master of the Holy Scriptures. All that was good in his religion as in theirs came and must come from the only source,—God's revelation of Himself to men. Nor was he there for the purpose of picking out the weaknesses or the foibles of the older churches. He could not talk intelligibly on this subject to any one who did not believe in God and in the Bible as the revelation of God, in the Ten Commandments, and in the great Commandment of them all, 'Love God with all thy heart, and thy neighbor as thyself.' Nothing could be wider of the truth than the idea that Christian Science was antagonistic to the religion of Jesus Christ, and that it was something for the ills of the body only and not for the immortal soul. The healing was but an incident of Christian Science, but as the works which Jesus did were the absolute proof and demonstration of his divinity, and the only argument he ever used to establish his divinity, so the works that Christian Science did were the demonstration of the divinity of Christian Science. He had no quarrel with the old churches; he believed that every one of them had brought good into the world; it was through their work that the field was open to the religion in which he had found comfort and health and help. But the believers in the manifold phases of the Christian religion were united in one thing—to prevent any new thought of God from gaining acceptance among thinking men. The lecturer went on to elaborate at great length the argument that as the attitude of men towards the many secular and mental problems of life was vastly different now from that taken by their forefathers, so there was no reason why the present generation should be bound to take from its predecessors the concept of God they had formed under the lesser light in which they lived.

In all the essentials of belief the Christian Scientists were in absolute harmony with the Christian churches. Should they not then be friends, standing side by side, shoulder to shoulder, one army in the service of the one living God? Christian Science was discovered, or rediscovered, or found, or uncovered by Mrs. Mary Eddy, a native of the State of New Hampshire. She did not invent it. All that she claimed was that she had discovered a means whereby cringing, crying men of to-day might successfully appeal to the love and healing power of God as the crying, aching men of nineteen hundred years ago did appeal to it and were made whole. Christian Science offered to the world no new Bible and no mythical or mystical or forced construction of the old. It enthroned no new divinity, proclaimed no new God, but the one only living and true God whom all our fathers worshiped. The basic principle of Christian Science was the declaration of an insistence upon God's infinite power, goodness, and love. All that Christian Scientists claimed was that they were trying to live the life that Jesus lived, and to follow the example that he set. They believed that the promises of his religion were meant to be absolutely kept. They believed that he sent his disciples out into the world to preach the gospel and heal the sick—the one just as much as the other. Christian Scientists did not claim to be clothed with the power of God to heal the sick. All that they claimed regarding the healing power of their religion was what was claimed nineteen hundred years ago. 'The power is not in me, but in the Father who worketh through me.' If the power that healed the sick was the power of God, would it not come to them as a horrible shock to think that He did not manifest that power now as He did in the days of old? The lecturer concluded a lecture of about an hour and a half's duration by declaring that by thousands upon thousands of absolute cures covering the whole range of mortal disease Christian Scientists had absolutely demonstrated the power of metaphysical healing, and therefore and thereby and therein the absolute truth of Christian Science.

"The chairman, in a sentence, thanked Mr. Ewing for his lecture."

Our Edinburgh correspondent thus writes:—

"The lecture was much appreciated and enjoyed, and it will serve to call attention to and remove many misconceptions regarding Christian Science."

Referring to the lecture at Manchester, one of the leading Scientists there writes of it, "It has been a great time of rejoicing here and we are all very grateful for the tremendous success of everything."

Accompanying the letter is an interesting sketch of the establishment and progress of the work there, which, we regret to say, our space will not permit us to publish in this issue, but we shall publish it at an early day.