The Lectures

with contributions from William Somerville, William R. Rathvon

Quincy, Ill.

The Ninth Street Temple was filled yesterday afternoon, and those present listened to an eloquent and scholarly statement of the great and advancing cause of Christian Science.

The orator was Hon. Clarence A. Buskirk of Princeton, Indiana, and he is recognized as one of the foremost exemplars of the new faith. The Buskirk family has for several generations been very prominent in the affairs of Indiana. Several state offices have been filled by them, and the speaker of yesterday was from 1874 to 1878 the attorney-general of the state. He is a man still in active and healthy life—a man of fine voice and presence—and his address yesterday was a jewel in its way. He arrived direct from Princeton Saturday evening and was the guest until to-day noon of Capt. William Somerville, commandant of the Soldiers' Home. He returned to Princeton this afternoon and goes thence to Harrisburg, Penn.

The speaker was introduced by Captain Somerville, and he chained the attention of his auditors for an hour and a half.—The Quincy Daily Herald.

Boulder, Col.

"Standing room only" was the rule after eight o'clock last night [February 9] at Temple Theatre, and it was a splendid and representative audience that greeted Bicknell Young of Chicago, the distinguished Christian Science lecturer. The speaker was introduced by William R. Rathvon, First Reader of the Boulder church of this faith, who said in part,—

The Christian Science Church of Boulder has been organized for nearly three years, and it has, on the whole, been kindly regarded; its adherents have been fairly treated; and its purpose generally recognized as a Christianly endeavor to make men better,—physically, mentally, morally, spiritually. Its success is best attested by the glad evidence of the goodly number of home people, who through its benign ministrations have been restored to their rightful heritage of health and happiness.

Christian Science is still greatly misunderstood, but we are happy in the knowledge that the time is forever past when, in the opinion of the public, everything should be labeled Christian Science which undertakes to heal without using medicines. The world is rapidly learning that Christian Science is not merely a novel method of making sick people well without swallowing anything, but that it is a religion which makes for health of mind and body,—for our true estate.

There yet exists in the popular mind many perverted and erroneous ideas, however, about Christian Science,—misconceptions and imaginations that would be ludicrous and grotesque, were they not so pernicious in their consequences. Our lecturer comes to-night to correct these wrong views, and to present the fundamental teaching of Christian Science, authoritatively, lucidly, and as concisely as so broad a theme can be handled in so short a time.—Boulder Camera.

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