Article December 21, 1912 Issue

THE LECTURES

with contributions from Ben Yancey, Homer Martin Cook, George R. Lowe, R. M. Hamer, Norval M. Crawford

The auditorium of the Carnegie library was well filled by an audience of representative culture, gathered to hear Judge Clifford P. Smith, a Christian Science lecturer. Judge Smith was introduced by Mayor Ben Yancey, who said in part,—

Since the dawn of creation, religion in some form or phase has held the attention, the awe, the reverence, of every nation, of every people, in every age and clime. That religion may have been founded upon the basest concepts of idolatry and paganism; it may have nestled in birth among the sublime and lofty heights of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, but it is a wonderful commentary upon the trend of religious history that in no instance has that religion failed to be the stepping-stone to a higher moral and physical uplift and development in the life of a nation.

Thus it is with all denominations and all creeds in this civilized and Christianized world of ours today. Every faith has its place in the gigantic esthetic structure of the world's moral advancement and progress. The creed of Christian Science, though born but today, takes its, stand foremost among those religious cults which seek the Lord's vineyard as the field of their activities in the moral betterment and uplift of humanity. It is a voice crying out in the wilderness for the salvation and redemption of God's children, a redemption founded upon the faith in Jesus Christ and through belief in the fulfilment of the prophecies of old. Its breadth of vision, its avoidance of all narrow sectarianism, is forcibly illustrated tonight in that one not of their own persuasion has by invitation come into your midst and been bidden to speak a word in introduction of the distinguished disciple of their faith.

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