Article February 19, 1916 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from William A. Morse, Chalmers M. Hamill, Moses E. Clapp

The Hon. William A. Morse, in introducing Virgil O. Strickler, who lectured on Christian Science in Highland Club Hall, West Roxbury, under the auspices of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston, spoke as follows:—

When I first came to West Roxbury about twenty-five years ago, there were but few persons here who had manifested the slightest interest in Christian Science, and those few were charitably criticized by their kindly disposed neighbors, who were confident it was only a matter of time until they would return to the fold they had abandoned, wiser and somewhat humbled by their peculiar waywardness; but this, like many other human prophecies, has come to naught.

My attention was first called directly to the subject of Christian Science some eighteen years ago. I was then senator from the Cape district and a bill was presented for an enactment which would have completely prohibited the teaching and practice of Christian Science. I was surprised to find that the passage of the measure was urged not only by certain influential members of the medical profession, but by active members of churches of almost every denomination. In those days the Christian Science movement certainly had its hours of danger, but because it was based upon divine Principle it has developed and extended by virtue of its inherent truth and the benefits following its application, until it has become as firmly established in this commonwealth, where it had its beginning, as the law itself. It is now rapidly monopolizing many members of those same denominations, as well as occasionally taking over some progressive and conscientious members of the medical profession itself. My interest later was much intensified by having the great privilege of knowing the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and hearing from her own lips of what she had done and was doing for the cause and its advancement. Since that time I have read and heard much about it, and I state a fact that is known to all,—that no person who has sought Christian Science with an open, impartial mind can now be found who is not its advocate and friend.

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