Article February 9, 1907 Issue

THE LECTURES

with contributions from Æ Baron Mackay, Severin E. Simonsen, Wm. H. Rodder

Rev. Arthur R. Vosburgh lectured at The Hague Nov. 17. He was introduced by attorney Æ Baron Mackay, who said,—

Dear friends, in the name of the committee which organized this meeting, and at its request, I am glad to welcome you all, and to introduce to you the speaker of to-night. Though not a Christian Scientist myself, I do this with pleasure, because I am aware that I may render my fellowmen a service by so doing. Repeatedly when observing Christian Scientists—and I have had many an opportunity during the past two years—I had to think of that which is told to us in the Acts about the people of Berea, "who searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so," as Paul and Silas said. I believe I do no injustice to many in our believing Christian circles when I presume that they do not search the Scriptures with the same holy, earnest, and quiet fidelity as the Christian Scientists do.

At the beginning of this year we read in a periodical which is being very much read and whose editor is one of our most learned and gifted clergymen, "In our country Christian Science has attracted only little attention until now." This is quite so; it is only during the last year or so that Christian Science has become a topic of conversation, though here in The Hague there has existed a small number of Scientists for three or four years. But though small, I am sorry to say that in the criticisms which the movement has met in believing Christian circles it sometimes was hard to recognize the spirit of Christ, and more still is it to be regretted that those Christian critics were guilty of so much inaccuracy. For example, the author whom I mentioned above, in referring to the text-book, Science and Health, declares, "This is, so to say, the Bible of the Christian Scientists." And I have often observed that even when contradiction followed, this was not accepted. Others seemed to know better than Christian Scientists themselves.

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