Article March 15, 1913 Issue

THE LECTURES

with contributions from B. F. Bonnell, William Capell, William H. Dodd, Samuel W. Greene, Nelson Carveth, J. R. Burton

The Tuesday Club auditorium, which has a seating capacity of one thousand, was taxed to its utmost to accommodate the crowd which assembled to hear Virgil O. Strickler's lecture on Christian Science. The lecturer was introduced by the Rev. B. F. Bonnell, who said in part,—

Humanity through all time has been confronted with two types or conditions of thought: one, of things as they really are; the other, things as they appear to be. In every country and generation there have been a few individuals who have sought to think and live according to reality, but the great mass of humanity has been content to live according to appearances. Christian Science in its philosophy and religion comes as the exponent of pure idealism, and proves its position not by words, categories, and dogmas, but by actual demonstration. Christian Science made its appearance int the most critical period of the world's history, and it would long since have been laughed and ridiculed out of existence but for its ability to demonstrate its claim beyond a cavil or a doubt. But I remind myself just now that I must not speak on Christian Science, for two very good reasons: first, I learned a long time ago that the one chosen to introduce the speaker is not supposed to deliver the lecture; and second, that we have one with us who is fully competent to render this service.—Correspondence.

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