Article July 16, 1904 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Sydney Brooks, Edward A. Kimball, Judge Smith

Notwithstanding the fact that all Dublin seemed to be in Kingstown on last Tuesday night [May 3], giving their Majesties a royal send-off, Judge Hanna's lecture in the Antient Concert Rooms attracted about seven hundred people of all ranks and sects. If he could return and give another lecture next week, I believe he would draw double that number at least, so profound was the impression he seemed to create. I can answer for myself, at all events. I went there in a keenly critical spirit, but I came away feeling that it was good for me to have been there. I have in my time sampled every form of religion, and have studied, more or less, every ism of man's creation, but I never before attended a lecture on Christian Science. The result is that all the isms are forgotten.

This seems to me to be the only form of religion which suits the needs of all, where all God's creatures can meet on common ground. It is as sublime and infinitely potential as the Creator himself,—the religion which should eventually "cover the earth as waters cover the sea." Put in a nutshell, it is practical Christianity, the simple teaching of the Bible, which, after all, is supposed to be comprehensible to babes. For an hour and a quarter Judge Hanna spoke, testifying to the faith that was in him by quoting text after text from the Sacred Word, and proving incontrovertibly that Christian Science is simply a knowledge of Christ, and that its followers merely claim to see Christ as he was, and is, and ever shall be. When he had finished, his hearers, who listened with breathless interest, experienced a disappointment at the brevity of his lecture.

In common with all Christian Scientists Judge Hanna possesses a countenance which seems to be illumined by God's eternal sunshine. The doctrine he preaches is that of infinite Love, in which fear has no place, strength knows no weakness, and the peace of which passes the understanding of mortal mind.

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