Article July 4, 1914 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from C. C. Pierce, Robert H. Fife, E. Wyly Grier, John Madden, Elmer F. Clute, J. W. Caswell, Palmyra R. Gundelfinger, Josephine Perkins

The remarks of the Rev. C. C. Pierce, D.D., at "Auditorium, Theater Beautiful," on the occasion of a lecture on Christian Science by Col. William E. Fell, were in part as follows:—

No one who can lay any claim whatever to even a very limited knowledge of human history and the progress of mankind, can have failed to notice that the advancement of the race has again and again been characterized by great movements, profound, irresistible, vital, and seemingly beyond the power of any known human agency to retard or control. Without taking the time at our disposal from the speaker of the evening even to mention a number of these great movements in detail, I will simply say that in my opinion Christian Science has already taken its place among them. As such it has manifested some at least of the characteristics which have seemed inseparable from these world-wide phenomena to which I have referred. It has had its period of obscurity, of struggle, of opposition, of misunderstanding, of criticism, of imitation, and there have been those who, compelled at last to take notice of it, have predicted that it was short-lived, and destined speedily to fall to the ground.

It is altogether needless for me to call attention to the fact that, apparently regardless of misunderstandings, oppositions, criticisms, counterfeits, and baleful predictions, this great movement, founded under God by one of the greatest personalities of all the centuries, has calmly, steadily, complacently, and quietly, but successfully, pursued the even tenor of its way.—Correspondence.

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