MACON, GA.

The lecture on Christian Science at the Grand, Friday night [Feb. 28]. attracted a representative and appreciative audience. Col. Joseph W. Preston, in introducing the lecturer, Mr. Bicknell Young, said in part, —

For two thousand years men have struggled in the light of Jesus' teaching to attain unto the perfect light, but until this day, with all their intelligence, all their yearning interest, all their craving desire, all their prayers, there remained and still remains in the world an unsatisfied and uncertain, unsteady and unfixed, and restless state of mortal mind upon this momentous subject. The world has been seeing through a glass darkly. The teachings of Christ Jesus have been variously interpreted and indistinctly understood, and for this reason were to a great degree unsatisfactory. It would seem that men have failed to understand that he was the greatest of all scientists; that he was the divine Scientist, and that his teachings were the perfect embodiment of science. But it is now claimed that in the nineteenth century there rose up among men a woman — a most remarkable woman — who proclaimed that Christ Jesus was a Scientist; that his words and works did reveal the grand truth of spirituality to her; that she plainly understood and realized the true light, the true science; and so, in the abundance of her love and her rejoicing, her great heart went out to all the world, proclaiming this true light, and finally established the Christian Science Church — adopting the holy name of her great Master, which has attracted, and is attracting, in a wonderful degree and with powerful demonstration and increasing force, the thinking people of the world. I wish to state that I am closely associated personally with some of the members of this church, and I am a friend though not a member of it. I sympathize and believe in many of the doctrines and teachings which I have drawn from a careful study and reading of the literature of that church, and the demonstrations which I have witnessed and of which I have read. Like all other liberal-minded men and women, I am willing to hear the truth from whatever source it may come.—The Macon Telegraph.

BALTIMORE, MD.

Judge Clarence A. Buskirk of St. Louis, Mo., lectured on Christian Science at the Academy of Music yesterday afternoon [March 15]. Mayor Mahool introduced the lecturer. Speaking of the bill before the Legislature, prohibiting any person from practising healing for pay who has not passed an examination before the State Medical Board, Judge Buskirk said,—

The framers of this bill would not come out flat-footed to prevent the practice of Christian healing as taught by Jesus, for they know that it would be unconstitutional, but they hide its intent under the guise of not interfering with its practice, only preventing the charging of fees, as if the fee were a menace to the public health — an absurd proposition. Take, as a case, a poor old lady from the Eastern shore, who from her childhood had been trained in the use of herbs and simples, totally ignorant of materia medica, and had grown to depend upon her knowledge to support herself. If any one of you were to have more faith in her herbs than in the drugs of the medical fraternity, and should have her spend her days and nights nursing you — her nursing would be all right — but if she were to accept one cent of pay for her services she would be subject to arrest and declared a criminal by the Legislature of this freedom-loving State of Maryland.

If Jesus, Paul, John, Peter, Simon, or any of the apostles, or any of Jesus' followers to the end of the third century, were to come within the borders of this State and were to take with them neither scrip nor provisions, but believing as they did that the laborer is worthy of his hire, and should accept a bed overnight or a breakfast as a part repayment for the good they had done, they would be jailed as common criminals for healing the sick, unless they could obtain license from a medical board, who would make their competency to heal the sick their knowledge of materia medica, anatomy, and physiology but with no thought of the healing truths of the Christian doctrine. Every adult citizen of Maryland has the right to employ any means of healing or any kind of practitioner as to him seems best. Anything which directly or indirectly interferes, by way of legal enactment, with the complete and unrestricted enjoyment of the right of the citizen to choose his own way of getting well, is unconstitutional. Any bill permitting one class of persons to receive pay for their services and precluding other persons from receiving emolument, is class legislation in its most obnoxious sense. The Legislature of Maryland refused to admit any evidence whatsoever concerning the position of the Christian Scientists. Every lawyer in the audience knows that all evidence must be admitted when the witness answers three requirements. First, that he tell facts, not what he supposes or thinks. Christian Scientists know whereof they speak. Secondly, that the status of the witness be all right, and there can be no question on that score. Thirdly, that the number is sufficient. The greatest wrong of modern legislation has been that of the majority trying to destroy the minority; and Maryland was one of the first to frame laws to protect the minority. The Senate has admitted the unconstitutionality of the bill by its fight to prevent the bill from going into the hands of the judiciary committee.

In closing, the lecturer read from a Chicago paper which he had just received, the case of Dr. Barrett, a practising physician for thirty years, who had been taking medicine for a number of ailments for years, and having contracted the dread disease called leprosy in treating a patient having that disease, had despaired and was getting his affairs in order when a friend suggested Christian Science. His stomach trouble was healed in a few hours and in a short time the leprosy disappeared.

The Sun.

LECTURES AT OTHER PLACES.

New Haven, Conn. (Second Church). — Rev. Arthur R.

Vosburgh, Dec. 22.

Adrian, Mich. — Bicknell Young, Jan. 6.

Sioux Falls, S. D. — Bicknell Young, Jan. 12. San Francisco, Cal. — Bicknell Young, Jan. 19.

Lodi, Cal. — Bicknell Young, Jan. 20.

Alameda, Cal. — Bicknell Young, Jan. 24.

Napa, Cal. — Bicknell Young, Jan. 27.

Pasadena, Cal. — Bicknell Young, Feb. 1 and 2.

Phoenix, Ariz. — Bicknell Young, Feb. 7.

Tucson, Ariz. — Bicknell Young, Feb. 8.

San Antonio, Tex. — Bicknell Young, Feb. 11.

Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. — Hon. Clarence A.

Buskirk, Feb. 12.

Chicago, Ill. (First Church). — Hon. Clarence A. Buskirk,

Feb. 13 and 14.

Ottawa, Can. — Miss Mary Brookins, Feb. 16.

Austin, Tex. — Bicknell Young, Feb. 17.

Charlotte, Mich. — Miss Mary Brookins, Feb. 18.