Article May 6, 1905 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Ward Russell, Weed Munro

Union Hall was well filled yesterday afternoon [March 12] to listen to Judge Septimus J. Hanna's talk on Christian Science. Judge Hanna was introduced by Rev. Ward Russell, pastor of the Christian Church of this city, who said in part,—

We have met to-day to hear expounded the principles advocated by Judge Hanna and his co-laborers of the Christian Science faith. We have come as seekers after truth. If the speaker has any new truth to give us, we want to hear it. The honest man is not afraid to hear the truth. Only the moral coward, the stickler for party rather than liberty, flees from the light of truth. The Master said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." I want to be free; I want the truth, and if the Christian Science people have a ray of light that has not come to me, I want it. I am living for time and eternity, and can't afford to live in blindness if some one can take the scales from my eyes. Let us give Christian Science a fair hearing. Let us learn what it is, and weigh it in the balance of revealed truth as laid down in the Holy Scriptures. If it comes up to the requirements of all the Word of God, let us accept it as worthy; but if it be found wanting, let us honorably and conscientiously reject it. Give everything a fair examination, not hasty, but careful, and do not condemn it because it is new, nor cling to it because it is old.

I believe the day is coming when we shall welcome what is good and true from all sources, and become one great, truth-loving, united body in the Lord. I believe the backbone of creedism has been broken. The day of liberty and union in Christ draweth nigh. What quota of truth the Church of Christ, Scientist, shall contribute to this great "one faith," we shall see by and by. No doubt this body of people are calling the attention of the world to some things that have been overlooked. Let us hear them.

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