The Lectures
Oneonta, N. Y.
On Sunday, September 11, Mr. Edward A. Kimball delivered a lecture at the theatre in Oneonta, on the subject, Christian Science. Mr. Kimball was introduced by Mr. Franklin Blake, First Reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Oneonta, whose remarks were in part as follows: —
When asked the other day why I was a Christian Scientist, I replied that it was because I could not help being one. Like many of you, I was for several years an earnest worker in another church, but since I first heard of Christian Science it has had for me an irresistible attraction. I have found it a demonstrable, provable, every-day, working religion, — what I had seached for during many years, and you will find that to be the experience of every Christian Scientist.
We are very grateful for all the good and for all the help that has come to us through the other churches, but Christian Science has unfolded to us such a larger sense of God, such a deeper and fuller understanding of the Bible, such a truer sense of man and of our relation to each other, that we are impelled to follow its teachings so far as we can understand them.
To those who have not been attracted by the other churches, we offer a simple truth that is provable from its minutest detail to its largest problems. In proportion as it is understood it can be demonstrated. — Correspondence.
Battle Creek, Mich.
Christian Scientists held an unusually instructive and enjoyable session at Independent Congregational Church, Thursday evening, September 8. The speaker of the evening was introduced by Hon. Charles Austin in the following words: —
Ladies and Gentlemen :— We are assembled to hear an exposition of the doctrine of Christian Science which claims its right to respectful consideration. Its followers have healed the sick by tens of thousands, and it is useless to answer this by sneers and ridicule. It has brought cheer and religious hope to the hearts of hundreds of thousands, and this cannot be met by the anathemas of its opponents. It is meet that this gospel of hope should have had its inception in this sunny land of ours.
The gentleman who will expound this hope doctrine to us to-night is a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston, Mass. Whatever our belief may be, he should command our respectful attention. I esteem it an honor and now have the pleasure to introduce to you Mr. Bicknell Young of Chicago. — The Battle Creek Moon.
Detroit, Mich.
Judge Septimus J. Hanna of Colorado Springs, delivered a lecture on Christian Science at Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Sunday afternoon, September 4. Judge Hanna was introduced by Mayor Maybury, who said among other things, "Never in my judgment in the history of the world has the Bible been more intelligently studied; the purpose and person of Christ Jesus more carefully noted, more broadly considered than in the day in which we live. It is very certain that in past ages his divine person was not comprehended as it is by the intelligent world of this later day. His coming and his person, as we all know, was the culmination of many truths which the world had long known in a fragmentary way. But the coming of the divine person was to be the culmination of all these truths in one." Detroit Times.
Bradford, Pa.
Judge William G. Ewing of Chicago, lectured before an audience that nearly filled the church last evening [May 24]. His lecture was on Christian Science, and so interesting and plain spoken was the judge's presentation of the subject that every one present, not already familiar with Christian Science and its teachings went away with a clearer and better understanding of the new faith. — Bradford Star.
Judge Ewing was introduced by Hon. R. B. Stone, who spoke as follows: —
A personal friend, who is a believer in Christian Science, invited me to attend this meeting, and I shall be pleased to listen and learn what it is that my friend believes in. Several of my acquaintances have become disciples of this faith, and I am curious to know the secret which has added to their personal qualities a certain charm of placid good cheer, and enabled them complacently to withstand all sorts of misfortune. If they have, indeed, been taught the white art which the great poet scouted as unattainable, — the art to
minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
then they have a message which the common people will hear gladly.
I am an advocate of Christian Science, nor do I endorse beforehand what the speaker of the evening may say, but I do testify, not from statistical tables, but from my own observation in traveling over wides areas of this country, especially through the West, — that this religious movement is growing with marvelous rapidity. One of its accredited representatives is here to speak for it to-night. I have the pleasure of presenting Judge William G. Ewing, of Chicago, who is a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Vinalhaven, Me.
A lecture on Christian Science was given in Vinalhaven by William D. McCrackan of New York, in Memorial Hall, August 23. The hall was well filled with an attentive and interested audience composed of representative citizens, the intelligent and thinking people of the town.
The lecturer was introduced by Professor T. L. Roberts, Director of Music in the schools of Utical, N. Y., a former resident of Vinalhaven. Professor Roberts Roberts spoke of himself as a living example of the power of Christian Science to heal the sick, and his own testimony made a very fitting introduction to the subject of the evening. Correspondence.
Lectures at Other Places.
Wilmington, N. C. — Bicknell Young, June 7.
Millville, Pa. — Frank H. Leonard, August 25.
Greensville, Pa. — Edward A. Kimball, September 8.
Jackson, Mich. — Judge Septimus J. Hanna, September 8.
Kansas City Mo. — Judge William G. Ewing, Sept. II.
Monmouth, Ill. — Bicknell Young, September 12.
Amsterdam, N. Y. — Edward A. Kimball, September 13.
Herkimer, N. Y. — Edward A. Kimball, September 18.
