Article October 21, 1916 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from L. C. Holden, R. D. Coffman, H. S. Scott, Thomas B. Holmes

Virgil O. Strickler delivered a lecture on Christian Science at the Soo Opera House. The building was well filled when Attorney L. C. Holden introduced the speaker with the following remarks:—

We often hear it said that religion is changing all the time. I do not quite agree with such statements. I am inclined to take a broader view of it, and regard religion as fundamental and unchanging. But it is certainly true that our conceptions of religion—our theories concerning it, our theologies if you please—have very greatly changed, even in the last half-century. Personally, I am much rejoiced with the change.

In the last few years there has come among us a sect, society, or church people known as Christian Scientists. They are leading the van of progress in religious conceptions concerning God and man. The charted way of their religious ship of state seems illumined by a ray of light from heaven itself. Their growth is rapid, yet healthy. Their gentility of character and conduct, their lack of criticism of others, coupled with higher ideals and conceptions of what life really is in this world and in the next, are winning many good people to them. We see them in their every-day lives, made healthy in mind and body by methods of thinking and living as taught by their religion.—Sault Ste. Marie Mail.

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