THE LECTURES

with contributions from S. C. Heyman, G. A. Kratzer

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.

Sunday afternoon [Oct. 14] Rev. Irving C. Tomlinson of Concord, N. H., delivered a lecture on Christian Science. In introducing Rev. Mr. Tomlinson to the audience, Mr. S. C. Heyman said in part,—

The expounders of Christian Science are not men and women who have made failures in the other walks of life, but on the contrary are among our most cultured, progressive, and best educated people. They have builded their temple on the foundation of faith, hope, charity, honesty, and brotherly love, and they have builded well, and they should command the respect of every law-abiding and loyal citizen in the universe.

This is an age of science; science dominates, science is knowledge, knowledge that is capable of demonstration. The so-called conflict between science and religion is a thing that has long ago been outlived, and exists only in the minds of the unthinking. I am firmly and conscientiously of the belief that Christian Science has done more than its share towards the betterment of mankind, and it is for this that I respect it and its adherents.

Oklahoma City Times-Journal.

FITCHBURG, MASS.

At City Hall, Friday evening [Oct. 19], Judge Septimus J. Hanna lectured on Christian Science. He was introduced by Rev. G. A. Kratzer, First Reader of the local Christian Science church, who said in part.—

Many of you are Christian workers and are putting forth great endeavors to gain salvation for yourselves and for your fellow-men. In your efforts I think most of you tacitly assume that the salvation promised and to be gained through the gospel of Jesus Christ is a salvation from sin only; and even at that, a salvation not to be gained very fully by anybody in this world, and with doubts as to whether it will be attained by many, even in the world to come.

It has been known by Christian workers that sin is the most prolific cause of sickness and chronic invalidism that there is operating, but these workers have implicitly assumed that if they succeed in reforming the sinner, this is all they can hope for, and consequently it is all that most Christian workers attempt. They have felt that, though sin is repented of and destroyed, yet the sinner must, to a large extent, carry around in his body the marks and sufferings produced by his former transgressions for the remainder of his earthly days. It has not seemed to occur to them that the salvation offered by a loving and omnipotent God ought, in the very nature of that God, to be large enough to include salvation from the consequences of sin, as well as from sin itself, and they seem to have lost sight of the fact that this full salvation from both sin and sickness is repeatedly promised in the Scriptures and was repeatedly demonstrated by the prophets, by Jesus, and by his disciples, and that there are positive commands by Christ to his disciples in all ages to heal the sick as well as to preach the gospel.

I have repeatedly seen it demonstrated that, no matter what the record of the past, through the Science of God which Christ taught, and which men may learn and apply here and now, a man may become not only as holy, but also as healthy and as happy and as prosperous as though he had never been in sin.—Fitchburg Sentinel.

LECTURES AT OTHER PLACES.

Burns, Ill.—Bicknell Young, Sept. 7.

Chicago, Ill. (Fifth Church).—Bliss Knapp, Oct. 8 and 9.

Eugene, Ore.—Judge William G. Ewing, Oct. 9.

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