Article April 3, 1915 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Philip Marshall Brown, J. S. McCracken, H. E. Don Carlos, Frank H. Leonard, Rupert Eichholzer, S. C. Ford

Philip Marshall Brown, Ph.D., professor of international law and diplomacy in Princeton University, in introducing Prof. Hermann S. Hering who lectured on Christian Science, said:—

It was once my good fortune to visit the lake of Galilee. I met there a medical missionary, who was respected and loved by all. We sat together one evening, looking across the quiet waters lighted only by the brilliancy of the silent stars. The dim outlines of the opposite shore could be seen, where Christ Jesus often gathered with his disciples.

Our conversation naturally was of the great Master. I asked my friend if he believed that Christ Jesus walked on the waters of this lake; that he healed the sick and even raised the dead in this vicinity; that he communicated to his disciples this power to heal the sick and raise the dead. My friend said he did. I then asked whether he thought this miraculous power had entirely disappeared from the world. After a long pause he replied that he thought this power still existed, and that sometimes in his surgical operations he had the feeling that his hand was divinely guided. We then entered upon an earnest discussion of this strange problem,—why the Christian church for so many centuries has practically ignored in toto so vital a part of the Master's teaching. We recognized the credit due to Christian Science in emphasizing anew these truths affirmed in the New Testament.

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