Article December 20, 1913 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from L. A. Wilson, Harrison A. Smith, Frederick B. Shepard, Mrs. M. E. Van Duze, Professor Olin, Carrie Stoughton

Judge Clifford P. Smith lectured to a large and comprehensive audience at the El Reno Theater. He was introduced by L. A. Wilson, director of the First National bank, as fellows:—

That the world is growing better and better, more rapidly at this time than at any other period in its history, is generally conceded by all thinking people. To my mind the most hopeful sign, and one of the most potent factors in this upward march of the human race, is the very manifest desire of men and women everywhere in this day to know the truth, regardless of the particular form or name of the channel or organization through which knowledge of the truth may come. Surely the straight-jacket of dogma and creed sits but lightly on the shoulders of thinking men and women today, and with open minds they meet and welcome any knowledge of the truth of being that will help them better to live their daily lives.

We have met here tonight to listen to a lecture on Christian Science, a system of thought and living which bases its tenets on the eternal Principle of truth, love, and right, and whose wonderful growth and demonstrated results during many years past have commanded the attention of the whole civilized world. I do not profess to know a great deal about Christian Science, in fact I know very little about it, but surely any system of human thought and action which teaches the beneficent doctrines of good as against evil, of right as against wrong, of love in place of hate, of health in place of sickness, of cheerfulness and good will as opposed to discouragement and despair, and which bids a burdened humanity raise its head and look up to higher and better things, not away off, or some time in the future, but here and now, and which, moreover, is able to prove its claims by its fruits, is entitled to the respectful attention and the serious consideration of all thinking people, regardless of any previous habits of thought they may have had or prejudices they may have held.—Correspondence.

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