Article December 15, 1917 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Walter Alvey, Guy Gaylor Clark, C. C. Smith, G. Roy Eastman, A. H. Richardson, Charles W. Swift, Skipwith W. Adams, Elizabeth Esgen, F. W. Frevert

London, England (Eighth Church).—John W. Doorly, lecturer; introduced by Walter Alvey, who said in part:—

There are thousands to-day whose needs are not satisfied. Wanderers in the wilderness of doubt and darkness, they are hungering and thirsting for something that so-called orthodox creeds and doctrines cannot give them. They desire to believe in a God who is all-wise, all-powerful, and allloving, but they cannot reconcile the existence of such a Deity with the terrible evils and calamities which have overtaken mankind. The cry of their heart is the cry of Job, "O that I knew where I might find him!"

To this cry Christian Scientists would gladly and quickly respond, leading these seekers to the knowledge which in their own case has been so helpful, so uplifting, so consoling; for Christian Science declares, as does the Bible, that God is All, and that He is good, and that man is His image and likeness. It maintains these great facts, in the face of all material evidence to the contrary, not only by the unanswerable logic of its reasoning but by practical proofs in the reformation of the sinner and the healing of the sick. It accepts with full faith the promises of our Lord and Master, "If ye continue in my word, ... ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," and, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." This is the way that Jesus himself marked out for us—the way of knowledge and practice, of understanding and demonstration; and every student of Christian Science who is treading that way humbly and faithfully is proving for himself and others the truth of these promises, is gaining to an ever increasing extent freedom from the bondage of the material senses, from fear and inharmony of every description, from sin and sickness and sorrow.

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