Article February 29, 1908 Issue

THE LECTURES

with contributions from A. F. Sanderson, Lewis R. Works, T. J. Burrill

A splendid gathering of people met in the Central Christian church yesterday afternoon [Jan. 26] to attend the lecture of Mr. Frank H. Leonard of Brooklyn, N. Y., who spoke eloquently and interestingly on Christian Science. The attendance was both a compliment to the speaker and a manifestation of the large interest felt in the city in the Christian Science movement. Rev. A. F. Sanderson, pastor of the church, whose courtesy and fellowship provided the building in which the lecture was delivered, introduced the lecturer in part as follows:—

I count it a privilege to present to you the lecturer of the hour. To some this may seem a little unusual, but I did not come to this platform to make an apology, neither do any of you deem it necessary. This church stands for liberty of opinion, unity in essentials, and charity in all things. The Pilgrim fathers fled from religious intolerance, to seek and make for themselves and their posterity a land of religious toleration. Every man has the divine right, unmolested, to worship God according to the best light he has, seeking all the time for all possible additional light.

I am glad to live in a day when at least in religious circles the spirit of brotherly love dominates, and in a time, though we may greatly differ, that we hear each other gladly and without prejudice. The man who loves the Lord Jesus Christ and acknowledges him as divine, and who seeks by devotion to his life and teachings to lift mankind into the highest and best possible life here, which prepares for the highest and best life hereafter, that man is my brother, and I bid him Godspeed. Christianity has for its object the highest good of the race. Individuals may differ in ways and modes of thought, but when the purpose of the heart is to do the will of the Master, that the purpose of God in human life may be accomplished, that aim is certainly Christlike, and I want to help him.

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