Article June 19, 1915 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Elizabeth Gregg, Edmund F. Burton, Samuel G. Dunham, Doll Wait Clark, George Dick Rogers, Elizabeth Ellis, S. T. Corn

Miss Elizabeth Gregg, second reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist, in introducing Clarence W. Chadwick, who lectured on Christian Science in the Tuesday Club House, spoke in part as follows:—

That Christian Science has successfully withstood the attacks of malice, prejudice, scorn, ridicule, and even threatened popularity, should suggest to the thoughtful person that this is because it is based, not on the shifting sands of human theories, but on the one sure foundation, that of demonstration.

If Christian Science appealed to only one class of people, the ignorant and credulous, as some critics have affirmed, to the wealthy or the intellectual, as others have attempted to prove, it would not today have churches scattered generously over the globe, nor would it attract such audiences as this to listen to an exposition of its teachings. The appeal of Christian Science is universal; indeed, it is the answer to that world-wide invitation to salvation voiced by the prophet Isaiah: "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters." To the student of human nature no one fact is more interesting than this: that every individual, no matter how sinning, superficial, or cynical his outward seeming, has at heart a deep longing to know the answer to Pilate's question, "What is truth?" Consciously or unconsciously every one cherishes the desire to know the cause of things, to know what God is, and man, and what is their relation to each other.

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