Article June 18, 1904 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Mr. Haworth-Booth

We are indebted to Mr. Frederick Dixon for the following report of Judge Hanna's lecture at Queen's Hall, London, May 12.—Eds.

For some reason or other the lecture is a from of instruction which seems never to have appealed to the people of England. This is probably especially true of London; and of every description of lecture, it seems to be most true of the religious. Regarded from this point of view the success of the lectures delivered at various times on Christian Science has been phenomenal, and of none more so than that recently delivered by Judge Hanna in Queen's Hall. Two years ago the representative of a great London paper, watching the audience slowly filing out at the close of Judge Ewing's address, declared his inability to find words to express his astonishment. "It might," he declared, "have been a political meeting instead of a religious lecture, and when it was remembered," he added, "that this audience was brought together practically without advertisement, it was simply incomprehensible." This year the same reporter saw a greater audience filling the same building.

With the exception of the Albert Hall, which for the purpose of a lecture is quite unsuited, the Queen's Hall is the largest in London; and when at half past eight o'clock on the twelfth of May the great organ suddenly ceased to peal, and Judge Hanna, closely followed by Mr. Haworth-Booth, walked across the platform, the audience broke into applause.

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