Article July 17, 1915 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Eugene W. Amesbury, Gertrude Deane Houk, Anna Friendlich, Floyd Shank, John M. Cheney, Edward Champion, Edwin F. Hammond, C. W. Fisher, William R. Rathvon

Under the auspices of Second Church, Jacob S. Shield delivered three lectures on Christian Science. They were attended by large and attentive audiences. The introductory remarks by Eugene W. Amesbury at the first lecture were as follows:—

The fact is quite generally established at this time that Christian Science is a religion of good works. The achievements of Christian Science are causing many to believe that the healing power of God, the God "with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning," is as efficacious and available to mankind now as it was nineteen centuries ago. Christian Science is educating its followers to a higher understanding of God, and a deeper insight into the truth as set forth in the Bible. While I am not a member of the Christian Science church, I gratefully acknowledge the physical and spiritual benefits which I have received from the study of this subject for over a year and a half.

My earliest favorable impressions of this truth were received in conversation with one whose understanding was very clear. I was told that Christian Science was a return to primitive Christianity, foundational truth. The logic of the statements made by this friend caused me to review my own experience in the search for truth, which had not always been so uniformly satisfying as I desired. As I listened, there flashed across my memory many of the sayings of the master Christian, who spake as never man spake: "The kingdom of God is within you." "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do." Also Paul's question of King Agrippa, "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?" These, with other sayings, had previously seemed to belong to an age long past, and were not to be applied literally to present-day needs.

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