Article February 15, 1913 Issue

THE LECTURES

with contributions from Robert A. De Cou, Alfred D. Flinn, Guy S. Perkins, Franklin Pangborn, George W. Foster, Joseph F. Cobb, William H. P. Day

Virgil O. Strickler lectured to a large audience at Junction hall, Ballard Station, on Christian Science. He was introduced by Robert A. De Cou, who said in part,—

Each advancing step of mankind has come with the recognition of an already existing Truth, not through man's creation of anything; and this recognition of Truth, or Principle, has given to those sharing it a greater freedom from the limitations their former ignorance imposed. The world has been loath to acknowledge that the truth pertaining to man's relation to God is the same as the basic laws which govern him in his daily goings and comings in the realm of business or any activity in which a man or a woman may be engaged.

When Jesus stood before Pilate, he was asked a question which has been asked unnumbered times, "What is truth?" For three years he had been teaching and proving the truth about man. Always, when asked for proof of his teachings, he referred to his works, and he made these statements, which have equal bearing on all men: "By their fruits ye shall know them." "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." After his final victory over materiality in his resurrection and ascension, his followers continued to teach and to prove the available presence of God for nearly three hundred years. Then the thought of the world became so absorbed in conquest and pleasures that the Principle of Jesus' teachings was lost sight of.

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