Article December 9, 1905 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from James H. Van Dusen, Mayor Charles, Governor Geer

At the High School Auditorium, Tuesday evening, October 10, Prof. Hermann S. Hering delivered a lecture on Christian Science. He was introduced by Hon. James H. Van Dusen, who said in part, —

Amidst the progress, the extension of the horizon of human knowledge, the tendency has been to establish as a fact the control of an all-wise creator rather than to disprove such fact. Materialism, so-called, as advocated by Professor Haeckel of Jena and by him borrowed from Buchner and de la Mettrie, has but few adherents or advocates, even among those quite indisposed to accept the gospel of Christ. No one to-day would think of quoting with seriousness the remark of Lalande, that he had "swept the entire heavens with his telescope and found no God there." This age has outgrown, to some extent at least, the theory of an anthropomorphic God, but it has not outgrown the idea of an ever-present, omnipotent, and omniscient creator. This creator, even to those who have given but superficial thought to the subject, is spiritual and not material.

The subject upon which the speaker is to address us is of a spiritual character; it deals with our relations to Him in whom "we live, and move, and have our being." I know but little of it, but this I do know, that it is based upon the teachings of the purest man that ever trod the earth: the one who gave us, if viewed from a purely ethical standpoint, the highest code of morals ever outlined to the human race; an ethical code so pure that it would seem to be impossible for mankind ever to outgrow it. I speak of the gospel of Jesus Christ. — Correspondence.

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