Article December 8, 1917 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Charles H. Hale, Lester B. McCoun, Llewelyn Roberts, W. R. Ronald, Theodore A. Chelson, C. S. Older, Alice Charlesworth, Oscar J. Duke, Harry E. Duer, Robert R. Pratt

Chicago, Ill. (Fifteenth Church).—Ezra W. Palmer, lecturer; introduced by Charles H. Hale, who said in part:—

We are to-day living in the most remarkable epoch of the world's history since the advent of Jesus the Christ. Never has there been a time when all the seeming powers of evil have made such a persistent and concerted effort to gain the ascendancy over good. Surrounded on every side by the evidences of hatred, lust for power, sin, sickness, and death, the Christian Scientist is grateful that he is found worthy to participate in the struggle to obtain man's freedom—freedom not only from the slavery of sin and unjust laws but also from the unjust bondage of sickness. On page 450 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we find these words: "The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good." This statement of our Leader clearly and pointedly sets forth the work of a Christian Scientist, and also the Principle which he applies to attain the goal for which he strives.

Omaha, Neb. (First Church).—Paul Stark Seeley, lecturer; introduced by Lester B. McCoun, who said in part:—

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