Article January 24, 1914 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from W. O. Dolsen, S. T. Cone, Frank C. Dunham, James Ernest King, D. G. Medbery, Sidney Watson, B. F. Cauthorn, Roy L. Morse, Frank Bangs

Over five hundred Snohomish people attended the Christian Science lecture given at Eagles' Hall by Bicknell Young. Mayor W. O. Dolsen was chairman of the meeting, and introduced the speaker of the evening as follows:—

The history of the progress of the human race is a record of small successes and many failures, proportioned according to the degree of the essential element of truth back of the problems with which mankind has had to contend. Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has instinctively realized that truth is the only foundation upon which we may safely erect our temporal and spiritual edifices, and with this idea predominant, we have searched and investigated theories and dogmas and doctrines, gleaning a grain of truth from a mass of chaff, gathering "here a little, and there a little," of that which in its full fruition will set us truly free.

It is said that an untruth cannot perfectly adjust itself to any condition in the universe. No doctrine which has not truth as its fundamental element can long successfully survive. If the doctrine of Christian Science which we are to have expounded to us tonight is based upon error, it will not long endure; but if it is based upon truth, it will weather the gales of time. Its adherents believe that it has truth for its foundation, and have so ordered their lives that we are in all reason bound to investigate the basis for that belief. Without closer investigation than that of observation of the conduct of their daily lives, I am free to say that the most exemplary citizenship characterizes the adherents of Christian Science in this vicinity. If this is due to their faith in Christian Science, and I am compelled to believe it is, I think we are in duty bound to make an effort to find out something about this faith which seems to produce such excellent results.

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