New York, N. Y. (Fifth Church).—John Randall Dunn, lecturer; introduced by Albert F. Gilmore, who said in part:—

It is nearly twenty centuries since Jesus the Christ proved by demonstration his understanding of what Truth is and its ability to achieve victory,—healing the sick, making the blind to see, regenerating the sinner, raising the dead, and overcoming what were supposed to be unvarying physical laws. In less than three centuries after the close of his brief earthly ministry, the light of spiritual understanding burned so low that its healing efficacy was lost, and the world passed into those well-named dark ages of fear and doubt and superstition. "Where there is no vision, the people perish," and this vision is spiritual perception, the understanding of what Truth is.

We should be deeply grateful that in our own time has appeared one whose mentality was so spiritual, whose vision was so clear, that she, too, was able to give a full and complete answer to this question. Mrs. Eddy has given to the world the great fact that God is Truth, and she has proved her understanding by her works—proof beyond the possibility of refutation. She has answered the question, "What is truth?" She has given to the world its most perfect therapeutic system, a religion that heals and saves through spiritual regeneration.

Sterling, Col. (Society).—Paul Stark Seeley, lecturer; introduced by John A. Jameson, who said in part:—

The mighty works of Christ Jesus many centuries ago in the destruction of sickness and sin, in healing the lame, restoring sight to the blind, and raising the dead, revealed the operation of a divine law, which he declared all could understand and prove, when he said: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."

For three centuries the early Christians, through the understanding and use of this divine law, overcame sickness and sin, healed the lame, restored sight to the blind, and raised the dead. However, this great truth or law was lost sight of until Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, discovered this "pearl of great price"—this spiritual truth that God is the only creator, is Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love, and that man, His offspring, is not the victim of sin, sickness, and death.—Sterling Advocate.

Madison, Wis. (Society, University of Wisconsin).—Frank Bell, lecturer; introduced by Charles W. T. Weldon, who said in part:—

To-day Christian Science stands in much the same position as did Christianity nearly two thousand years ago. It makes the same plea as did Jesus of Nazareth, when he said, "Though ye believe not me, believe the works." The Christian Science church wishes to be judged by the standard of him who said, "By their fruits ye shall know them;" for this teaching has already performed such works as should command the earnest and unprejudiced consideration of all thoughtful people.

St. Paul, Minn. (joint community lecture).—Dr. Walton Hubbard, lecturer; introduced by Charles J. Andre, who said in part:—

There are few, if any, in this audience who have not at some time longed to know and understand the secret of the works wrought by Christ Jesus and by his disciples and followers in the early centuries of the Christian era; but the belief is general—and has prevailed for a long time—that these works cannot be understood, because the power to perform them was delegated to only a select few in that remote period of the world's history. In our own time a spiritually minded New England woman, Mrs. Eddy, discovered that these works were based on Principle, or spiritual law, and that this law is as operative to-day as it was nineteen hundred years ago and can be understood and applied now as it was then. She named her discovery Christian Science, and defined it as "the law of God" (Rudimental Divine Science, p. 1). In consequence, primitive Christianity has been reestablished in the world, again sin is being destroyed, and all manner of diseases are being healed.

Weehawken, N. J. (Society).—William D. Kilpatrick, lecturer; introduced by Alvin Hunsicker, who said in part:—

It is a fundamental teaching of Christian Science that error, or evil, must be uncovered in order to be destroyed. Does anyone question that it is being uncovered the world over at this time and that it will eventually be destroyed? Are the great sacrifices now being made to go for naught? Will not the spiritual or real nature of man be revealed in the reconstruction days that seem close at hand? Do we not now see indications that the brotherhood of man is taking tangible form? Wrongs are being righted; men are being made free socially and spiritually. The world will never be the same; it will be better, much better.

Park Ridge and Edison Park, Ill. (First Church).—Virgil O. Strickler, lecturer; introduced by Mrs. Minnie G. Cook, who said in part:—

Jesus the Christ revealed God to humanity as Love, Truth, and Life. In the gospel of John we read: "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. ... I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me." If a true and scientific knowledge of God is Life, then it must follow that all sin, sickness, and death is the result of ignorance, lack of such knowledge. Christian Science has come into the world to restore this demonstrable understanding of God.

Holyoke, Mass. (Society).—John W. Doorly, lecturer; introduced by Judge Robert Allyn, who said in part:—

The Christian church will tell you that God is Spirit, Life, Truth, Love, and in the next breath ask, Why does God permit this terrible war? Christian Science answers that men have created a material god and worshiped that god, and that this war, as well as sin, disease, and death, is man made and no part of the kingdom of God. Christian Science further claims that the worship of the only true God, who created only good and knows no evil, and living the life that Christ Jesus lived, will overcome sin, disease, and death; and that the destruction of sin and the healing of the sick are the works that give evidence of the true follower of Christ. This is primitive Christianity, upon which Christian Science is built.