Article June 5, 1915 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Milton T. Farmer, Gustavus S. Paine, C. M. Veazey, Lillian H. Turner, William Axton, George M. Houston, John Garretson

A large audience greeted Clarence W. Chadwick, who lectured on Christian Science in Scribner's Opera House. Judge Milton T. Farmer, in introducing the speaker, said in part:—

I come here not as a member of the Christian Science church. I hope that my travel through life's "vale of tears" has taught me, as I think it should and must teach any man, this lesson: that the approach to truth is not clearly defined, and no group of persons can say that they have a preemption of copyright upon that way of approach. What I mean is this, we live in country where religious freedom and tolerance of belief are enjoined upon us by law. More than that, we live in a country where men's minds and women's minds naturally respect that doctrine of religious tolerance which is enjoined upon them, with the result that people who belong to one church or to another church, to this or that denomination, must, if they properly appreciate the society in which they live, feel toward the worshipers that tolerance which is enjoined upon them.

I think if there is anything which is beautiful in life, it is the thought that the strong, the educated, those who have had opportunities which others may not have had, may bring their experiences and their opportunities to the aid of those who need aid, to the less fortunate, to the less favored in life's paths. It seems to me that there is something in this church of Christian Science, this Christian teaching, which means just that; that those who understand, who know, who have the benefits of the better things in life, are doing something to alleviate the conditions of misery which surround the rest of us.

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