Article August 24, 1918 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Josephine M. Fabricant, J. C. Graves, F. R. Francke , M. A. Muldrew, J. E. Lautner, William C. Milloway, Wallace H. Burnett, Seth H. Leach, Effie Louisa Benjamin, Walter R. Mitchell, S. N. Ewald

New York, N. Y. (Society, Columbia University).—Ezra W. Palmer, lecturer; introduced by Mrs. Josephine M. Fabricant, who said in part:—

There is a verse in the fourth chapter of Proverbs which makes a strong appeal to a student: "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding." Most of us here know what it is to burn the midnight oil, to spend hours upon hours in the accumulation of knowledge from books, and we are very grateful indeed to the beloved institution within whose walls we are gathered to-night for the privileges accorded us of obtaining this knowledge. But there comes a time in the life of every one of us when human knowledge is found to be utterly insufficient to bear us through some great crisis, when we look upon all the treasures of mortal thought which we so patiently and laboriously gathered, and find that we have "nothing but leaves."

We do want to get wisdom; we do feel the need of understanding, an understanding of the realities of life so that we may rest "undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses" as our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," so beautifully puts it on page 306. Never has the need for understanding been more imperative than it is at the present time, when the whole world seems to be passing through a maelstrom of strife and discord and hate and fear. It remained for a gentle woman, Mrs. Eddy, a student of that greatest of all books, the Bible, to discover and point out the way to the source of all true wisdom and understanding.

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