Article May 27, 1916 Issue

Recently I attended a lecture on Christian Science given...

John V. Budd

Milwaukee (Wis.) Sentinel

Recently I attended a lecture on Christian Science given at a church of that denomination in this city. The speaker was a man unknown to me, and probably to most of those who attended the lecture, and yet the spacious church, seating normally I should say about fifteen hundred, was crowded to the limit, even the speaker's platform being filled, while many people were standing. I am told that hundreds were turned away. The previous evening the same lecture had been delivered before a like crowd in the same place.

The lecturer talked quietly and without oratorical effort or embellishment, and yet for an hour and a half he held the close attention of that vast throng, and so far as I observed not one of the people left, not even those who were standing. One notable feature was that a large percentage of the audience was men. I am told that this is the ordinary course of affairs when this denomination gives a lecture.

All this impressed me greatly. Without having any particular religious bias myself, I could not help considering what would be the result if a lecture by an unknown speaker on almost any other subject should be offered. One is forced to the conclusion that there is a great and vital interest in this new movement; that the people see in it the fulfilment of a hope, the promise of something they do not find elsewhere.

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