Article May 27, 1916 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Will McConnell, D. R. Crissinger, Joseph B. Mills, W. M. Odell, V. W. Helm, A. G. Wilson

Willis F. Gross, who delivered a lecture on Christian Science at the Commercial Club rooms, was introduced by Will McConnell, principal of the High School, who said in part:—

History is one illuminated story of man's tireless effort to answer an inner longing for things divine. Creeds have arisen and perished. Dogmas have flourished for a time and then have become time worn and unsatisfactory. Ever the church has stood out as a pioneer and a martyr in the cause of righteousness. It has drawn into its ranks the best that the age has to contribute. Yet nowhere is change more apparent than in this institution which has permanence for its very foundation. The unprecedented multiplicity of creeds in the Christian churches of today all attest to unrest and uncertainty of detail.

The nineteenth century has done much toward destroying the contributions of the past, but it has placed us centuries in advance along many lines. It has robbed government of its mystery and corruption, it has placed the science in the realm of the known, it has put before us the great social problems that our country must face; and who is to say but that in these later days it has given us a religion which will clarify much that heretofore has been questioned? We have studied this religion but little, consequently we know but little. We have learned that it substitutes science for mysticism and reason for dogmatism; that it welcomes all who are serious and sees an opportunity for every one; that many who have come to scoff, have remained to pray; and that it has wielded a powerful daily influence in the lives of many people. These things commend Christian Science to us for our gravest consideration.—Correspondence.

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