Article August 16, 1919 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from William Lloyd, W. R. Holloway, Ruth I. Dyar, Mary Sanders, John R. Carr, Jacob Netter, John Ellis Sedman, O. A. Gerth, Edwin L. R. Bliss, Dewitt Allen, Anna S. Laisen, Alice Stewart, David J. Klyce, Georgia A. Vancil

Colorado Springs, Colo. (First Church).—John Randall Dunn, lecturer; introduced by William Lloyd, who said in part:—

When our Savior, Christ Jesus, was on earth, he taught by many beautiful parables, that live to-day in the gospels. The one I have in mind to-night may be found in Luke. In it he asks, "What woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?" Then he adds, "And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost."

Nearly nineteen hundred years after this parable was given, Mrs. Eddy, realizing that an essential element of the Christian religion had been lost,—the element of healing,—through the persistent study of the Bible lighted the candle of her spiritual understanding and, sweeping the house of her consciousness clear of all the old man made beliefs and creeds and dogmas, she too found that which was lost. Having found it, she desired to call her friends and neighbors together to rejoice with her,—but to her great, loving heart her friends and neighbors were all mankind; so in order to reach them she founded a church, which she named the "Church of Christ, Scientist," and which she said, as we read in the Church Manual (p. 17), "should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing." She gave this church its textbook, or commentary on the Bible, entitled "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures;" and also wrote other books on Christian Science, established periodicals, and provided a Board of Lectureship.

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