Article February 17, 1917 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Campbell MacCulloch, Edmund Bremen Gearhart, John Porter Henry, Leon M. Abbott

Allston, Mass. (auspices of The Mother Church).—William R. Rathvon, lecturer; introduced by Leon M. Abbott, who said in part:—

There is today among thinking men and women a general and growing recognition that the world's feverish and never ceasing pursuit of health and happiness has been in ways that are devious, vain, and profitless. It is becoming more and more apparent that the craving and intense striving for material wealth and gain and worldly power has only resulted in shattered hopes or fleeting joys. The terrible tragedy of war, reckoning its successes on the one side or the other by the number of human beings who are killed or the destruction accomplished, is bringing home to us all a quickened sense of how utterly futile and worse than worthless are such means for securing abiding peace or righteous determination of the differences between men and nations.

The constantly shifting sands of medical theories and practice have weakened the hope or destroyed the confidence of unnumbered thousands struggling for release from the bondage of sickness. The poor sinner tries in vain to break his shackles in a world where evil seems an eternal reality and good to have no transcendent power. Encompassing doubts and fears attest a lack of faith and trust in God even on the part of those who profess to be His servants and followers.

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