Editorial December 5, 1903 Issue

The Lectures

The large number of newspaper reports received at this office indicate that much more attention is being paid to the work of the Board of Lectureship, and that a greater number of lectures have been delivered during the present lecture year than ever before, but the article which we publish in this issue of the Sentinel, upon the request of the Board, shows that still greater care and forethought are required if the best results are to be obtained.

The number of persons who wish to know something about Christian Science, providing they can obtain authoritative information without much outlay of time or labor, is constantly on the increase, and to this class the lectures appeal with great force. That the lectures have removed much prejudice and misconception from popular thought is so apparent that there can be no question of their utility, and in no other department of our denominational work is there greater and more immediate return for the effort expended, unless it be in the healing of the sick.

Every social, political, and religious reform has been maligned and misrepresented, and it has been only through persistent and convincing elucidation of the truth that erroneous pre-judgment and self-satisifed indifference have been dispelled. Christian Science is no exception to this rule, and the need for a correct presentation of the subject appeals to all who are active in the work. This need has been weel supplied by the Board of Lectureship to the extent that the branch churches have made use of this means of spreading the gospel of healing, but it cannot be said that the best has been accomplished until every church and society in the denomination has had its full quota of one or more lectures every year, as enjoined by the By-laws of the Mother Church.

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