Article June 19, 1902 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from C. B. Rounds, Lemuel B. Bissell, T. B. T. Fisher, John H. Cameron, William D. Baldwin, O. S. Marden

From the point of view, it was an able, eloquent, and instructive lecture which Carol Norton delivered in St. Croix Hall, Tuesday evening [June 3] on the subject, "Christian Science is Applied Christianity." The speaker was gracefully introduced by Judge C. B. Rounds to an audience that numbered about four hundred. The closest attention was rendered the speaker to the close of his address.—Calais Weekly Times.

The introduction by Judge Rounds was in part as follows:—

Ladies and Gentlemen:—This is an age in which everything is brought to the test of common sense and reason, we may call it a questioning age. It is so in government. It is an age of questioning in Science. The revolutionary spirit is no less apparent, perhaps more apparent, in questions of religion than in any other department of human thought, as it ought to be. The old religions, the old doctrines and dogmas, are brought up for investigation, resulting in the announcement of new and the revision of old creeds. And while these creeds and dogmas are being dealt out for the spiritual growth of the members of the various churches, the world is still asking the question, over and over again, what have you done by word or act through the centuries for the upbuilding of humanity and the moral and spiritual elevation of the race? In proportion as these duties have been performed, the right to exist as a vital force in the world is established. Time will permit no drones in that hive.

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