Article November 7, 1914 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from John H. Lord, Jack M. Jackson, A. J. Palm, L. J. Keena, Fred C. Hill

A large and appreciative audience assembled in the auditorium of the Y. W. C. A. Building, to hear a lecture on Christian Science by William R. Rathvon. John H. Lord, district passenger agent of the Illinois Central Railroad, introduced the lecturer, and said:—

You have been invited here this evening for the purpose of listening to a lecture on a subject that is today attracting world-wide attention. While there are no claims made for it that it is in any way a new subject, yet there are hundreds and thousands of people from practically all parts of the civilized world who are giving testimony to the fact that Christian Science has given them new life, new thoughts, new ambitions, new hopes, new joys, new sight, new hearing; has taught them how to pray, how to love their neighbor as themselves, and how to live a true Christian life. It is also a subject that has been antagonized, criticized, and scoffed at from every conceivable angle. Yet with all this great opposition you will find its advocates moving onward, lending a helping hand where possible to do so, working earnestly and faithfully to help brighten up this old world of ours, striving daily to assist struggling humanity to get the understanding that the kingdom of heaven is here and now, only awaiting their occupancy.

It has been my great privilege to witness a remarkable case of healing through Christian Science,—remarkable for the reason that all material means had been exhausted and all hopes for the recovery of the patient had been abandoned, when Christian Science was called for, and God's glorious truth was most beautifully asserted. The healing was almost instantaneous. To many people, seeing is believing; but in this particular case, to me it was more than believing, it was understanding. There was unfolded the beautiful thought that here indeed must be the working of the same Mind and thought that rebuked the wind and calmed the tempest; that fed the multitude with the five loaves and two fishes; that caused the blind to see, the deaf to hear, and the lame to walk; that raised Lazarus from the dead.

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