Article August 10, 1918 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Victor Kutchin, William Belknap, Henry Edward Ashmun, Arthur L. Slater, B. F. West, V. B. Valleau, Walter S. Cross, Arthur O. Maus, W. Y. Crowson, Clare G. Cameron, J. P. McWilliams, Bayard Wootten, Nelson H. Armington

Biloxi, Miss. (Society).—Paul Stark Seeley, lecturer; introduced by Victor Kutchin, M. D., who said in part:—

In view of the fact that I am a member of the medical profession and naturally enough more or less antagonistic to Christian Science, and the additional fact that I am not a Christian Scientist, I deem it no small honor to have been selected to introduce the distinguished speaker of the evening. Generally speaking, the old religions had much in common; namely, the fear of death, and the use of life—this present life—to prepare for life beyond the grave: Speaking in a business way, they were all managed on a credit system, and for services rendered time checks were given that were to be cashed after the to-morrow of death. Now on the other hand Christian Science seems to be managed on a cash system—you get your pay here and now, and life in no sense is a preparation for death; for matter being a shadow and Love the one stupendous reality, death is vanquished, and happiness becomes the by-product of right thinking.

I would vision in a few sentences a thought I have on the future of Christian Science. I see yonder on the mountain top a great church, and in the chancel a revered and much loved woman who has done more than any other religious teacher, since the Master of Nazareth dwelt among men, to banish from life that blighting, grisly phantom known as fear; and I cannot imagine a time coming when the windows of that church shall be darkened and the great teacher no longer found visualizing and demonstrating for the children of men the existence of certain eternal verities amid a world of shadows.

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