Article May 4, 1912 Issue

THE LECTURES

with contributions from John C. Lathrop, Leo J. Keena, Percy Willis, A. H. Daniels, Clifford P. Smith

William R. Rathvon of Denver, Col., a member of the Christian Science board of lectureship, delivered a lecture Friday evening [April 26] on Christian Science, under the auspices of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass., in the church edifice, at Falmouth, Norway, and St. Paul streets. There were about five thousand persons present. The lecturer was introduced by the first reader of The Mother Church, John C. Lathrop, who said:—

Most of those who have witnessed the Christian Science cause grow from the work of one brave woman, and expand into a great world-wide religious, scientific, and therapeutical movement, well understand that it is because Christian Science has revealed and supplied to mankind the link in the chain of life never before fully uncovered or developed. This missing connection is the understanding of the Principle of man's being, which is the understanding of God and His laws, a correct apprehension of which discloses the way to immediate salvation from sin, reveals the power which destroys disease and death, and makes plain the path to eternal harmony and peace.

The discernment of this divine Principle of life demands an earnest, open, and receptive thought—the good ground of an honest heart, to which Mrs. Eddy refers in Science and Health when she says that in such soil "the seed [of Truth] must be sown; else it beareth not much fruit, for the swinish element in human nature uproots it" (p. 272). In listening to the instructive exposition of Christian Science which our lecturer is by experience and by practice so well qualified to give, it is hoped that this splendid audience one and all will realize the significance of this opportunity and be abundantly enlightened.—The Christian Science Monitor.

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