Article June 8, 1907 Issue

THE LECTURES

with contributions from Edward L. Katzenbach, H. C. Williamson, W. F. W. Wilding, Philip H. Martineau, Charles Vouga

Frank H. Leonard lectured on Christian Science Sunday afternoon, April 7. He was introduced by Edward L. Katzenbach, Esq., who said in part,—

For some reason unknown to myself I have been asked to introduce the speaker of the afternoon, and I may add, without overstepping the bounds of truth, that I rejoice in an opportunity to express publicly my own observation of Christian Science and Christian Scientists. "By their fruits ye shall know them" is a saying old, tried, and true, and by their fruits and by these alone I have known and judged them. My acquaintance with the sect has been confined to what I have seen and not to what I have known, for I am not of the Christian Science faith, being a Presbyterian dyed in the wool and with the blue brought out and developed in the college of Edwards, Witherspoon, and McCosh. The few brief years when I studied law in Cambridge did not shake my faith in the religion of my fathers, but they did cause me to respect more thoroughly the religion of others and they did afford me a broader and more comprehensive view of what may be termed the philosophy of religion.

I have attended Mrs. Eddy's church in Boston and have been personally and intimately acquainted with a number of Christian Scientists, and two things most clearly impress me. In the first place—and this observation is easily verified—those who go to make up the body of followers of Mrs. Eddy are not the uneducated, the emotional, the unsuccessful portion of the community. They are educated, rational, and successful in the pursuit of business. This surely is a fact of great significance. In the second place—and this observation is also easily verified—most of those who profess to be Christian Scientists do what those of us who are not Christian Scientists would do well to do likewise, namely, live their religion. To them the teachings of Christ seem to be the rules of every-day living.

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