Article May 7, 1910 Issue

THE LECTURES

with contributions from A. C. Hickman, Andrew Lankton

Prof. Hermann S. Hering lectured for Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist, at the Metropolitan yesterday afternoon [March 6], on "Christian Science: The Science of Salvation." He was introduced by Judge A. C. Hickman of the law department of the University of Minnesota, who said,—

In this active business life of ours, notwithstanding the fact that mankind seems to be engrossed in the material, still there is a general, almost universal desire to peer over into the realm of the unseen and learn something of that great First Cause; that which is the source of all that is. When Jesus was on earth in physical form, he performed many wonders, commonly called miracles. One purpose of these seems to have been to convince the world of the fact that he was the long-promised Messiah. Another purpose was to reveal to the world the nature and character of Him who had sent him. We find him saying at one time to his disciples: "He that seeth me seeth him that sent me." Again, when one of his disciples asked him, "Lord, show us the Father." he replied, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." Then followed this significant language: "The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works."

On one of his journeys he met a funeral procession, bearing to the grace the body of a young man, the only son of his widowed mother; and when he saw that griefstricken woman, he was moved with compassion, and restored the young man to life and to his mother. On another occasion, with the mourning sisters of Lazarus, as he was approaching the grave of their departed brother, we find him weeping with those who wept. Recalling his language, "He that seeth me seeth him that sent me," we know the Father's attitude toward the bereaved and sorrowing. At one time, when Jesus was reclining at meat in the house of a Pharisee, a woman of the city, one who was a sinner, came in and stood at his feet behind him, and bending over bathed his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head, anointing them with precious ointment. When Jesus saw this expression of her repentance and sincerity, her adoration for his pure and spotless character, he had compassion on her, and said, "Thy sins are forgiven." We read again that at the pool of Bethesda Jesus met a man who had been ailing for thirty-eight years, and from the account given we draw the inference that the man was practically helpless; but we are told that Jesus had compassion on him and healed him.

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