Article December 2, 1916 Issue

We attended the Christian Science lecture in our Brick...

Henry Hauser

Artesia (Cal.) News

We attended the Christian Science lecture in our Brick Hall and listened to a very forceful and logical discourse on the teachings of Christian Science. It was free from sarcasm or ridicule of any other religious sect or denomination, a most favorable symptom in religious progression that should not be overlooked, and which principle might well be embodied in the ethics of every other religious denomination.

There certainly must be something in the arguments of the Christian Science principles which commands both the attention and respect of so great a portion of all classes of people, and particularly of the thinking classes, when we witness so large a gathering of people from every section of our near-by communities as crowded into Brick Hall, leaving standing room available only in the vestibule, and very little of that. Another think which impressed us was that there were just about as many men present as women, a fact not generally found at religious meetings of latter-day times. It must be that the duty of right thinking, and the theory of God as a God of love, not of vengeance or judgment with a fire and brimstone sentence, appeal more favorably to man's conception of what is consistent with a just and loving heavenly Father.

That the advanced present-day thought has no use for inconsistencies, or what are believed to be such, must be the answer to this trend of thought of men and women everywhere to Christian Science, for nothing could have attracted such a crowd to a religious lecture save one desire,—that of hearing what they belived was truth. It was not curiosity, for there appeared not a restles person within the sound of the speaker's voice; neither was it music, for there was none.

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