Article September 1, 1917 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Charles M. Shaw, Cole B. Price, Vestina Scobey Doolittle, William E. Pew, Robert M. Sohngen

Sheffield, England (First Church). —John Sidney Braithwaite, lecturer; introduced by the Rev. Charles M. Shaw, who said in part:—

As an introduction to the lecture this evening it may be of interest if I tell something of my own experience in Christian Science. I have been identified with the Christian Science cause for about seven and one half years. I had no leaning toward this teaching, but on the contrary had strong antagonism toward what I believed it to be, and on more than one occasion publicly denounced it. During the later years of my ministerial life I had much uneasiness about the creeds and practices of my church; in brief, they did not justify themselves in face of the necessities of men. About this time Christian Science was brought to my notice, and chiefly on account of the friend who mentioned it to me, who had by this means been healed of long standing insomnia, I was induced to read the literature. At once I was surprised and interested; it was so different from what I had expected.

For about two years I was drawn on, step by step, most reluctantly, for I was unwilling to break away from the church in which I had been brought up; but finally I was convinced that Christian Science is the only possible interpretation of the teaching of Jesus. I therefore left my church, not because it was easy or pleasant to do so, but because I could not do otherwise. Christian Science has quickened my spiritual life to a degree I had not before experienced; it has settled all my intellectual difficulties about the Bible and faith; it has given me much saner, broader views of life, and has delivered me from many minor physical troubles which had long hampered me.

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