Article December 2, 1911 Issue

THE LECTURES

with contributions from E. E. Dillon, G. W. Sawin, S. R. Chubb , Walter Napier, Henry Craft, Walter J. Stetham

William D. McCrackan, M.A., lectured under the auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Melbourne, Australia, in the Melbourne Town Hall on Sept. 11 and 12. The Town Hall, which is one of the largest halls in Melbourne, was well filled both evenings by an interested audience, who listened with very close attention and occasionally applauded. The introducer on the first evening was E. E. Dillon, a city lawyer and secretary of the Melbourne Peace Society, who said in part,—

Although until the other day Mr. McCrackan was a stranger to the community, we can welcome him not only because of the great country from which he comes, but because of the subject on which he is to speak. I myself am not a Christian Scientist, but from what I know of that body I do not fail to recognize that they are the stuff of which good citizens are made. They endeavor to demonstrate to the world at large the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man; and a people who make these their principles and strive to carry them out cannot go very far wrong.

H. Gyles Turner, retired manager of the Commercial Bank, presided at the second lecture, and in the course of his introduction said:—

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