Article May 4, 1918 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from John Randall Dunn, John M. MacLeod

Peru, Ill. (Society).—John Randall Dunn, lecturer; introduced by the Rev. John M. MacLeod, Ph.D., who said in part:—

It indeed gives me great pleasure to stand before you, representing as I do another church, not far removed in conceptions from your own. I have always had a very near akin feeling for your great and glorious Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for was she not a Congregationalist before she became a Christian Scientist? Many times I have been taken for a Christian Scientist and the term has delighted me in a number of ways, for it is a grand idea to be a Christian and still better if one can add to that the scientific thought of the age. Only the other day I was asked, "Why do you, a Congregationalist, introduce a Christian Scientist?" And I replied: "Why not? Should we be so narrow that we cannot see the good in others?" The Scripture says that we must be of the same mind, which, I take it, means that while we do not see things just alike, we may be of the same mind in loving and helping one another; so in the spirit of helping and of love I am here this evening. I am pleased to note the great change slowly taking place in our religious ideas,—yesterday our religion seemed to be a funeral dirge, we had long, sad faces; to-day we know that our religion should make us glad and happy, that there should be sunshine in our smile and sparkle in our eye.

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