Article April 27, 1912 Issue

THE LECTURES

with contributions from F. van Hasselt, Stella G. North, Atlas Jones, Duncan Sinclair, Elisha B. Seeley

Under the auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist, The Hague, William D. McCrackan lectured on Saturday, Jan. 6, to a very attentive and large audience in Diligentia Zaal, on Christian Science. In introducing the speaker, F. van Hasselt, retired artillery colonel of the Dutch army, made the following remarks:—

Your presence here is a proof either of your interest in Christian Science or of your desire to discover what are the doctrines of this new-old religion of Jesus Christ, as taught, practised, lived, and established by him. I call Christian Science a new-old religion, for it makes no pretension to being aught but the restoration of that simple but rich Christianity which the great Master taught nineteen centuries ago, and which had lost much of its simplicity and much of its richness.

A non-Scientist has spoken of Scientists as "that rapidly growing army of earnest men and women who by their daily demeanor appear to have made happiness a business and trouble a lost art." A religion whose adherents are so spoken of is worth while to be investigated. Among you there are many who would gladly bear witness of their spiritual uplifting and physical healing through Christian Science, and I am sure they wish with all their hearts to get more of it. For those who have not yet had experiences of the blessings of this religion, I hope that the message we are to hear this night will make them desirous to know more of this truth which heals and saves.

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