Article August 5, 1922 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Herbert Everett, Lillie Graham, George M. Kellam, Albert L. Hall, R. B. Scholfield, Arthur F. Davis, Milas O. Hutter

West New York, N. J. (Society).—The following introductory remarks were given by Herbert Everett at a Christian Science lecture by John W. Doorly:—

Not a few of the world's leaders, both national and international, are expressing deep concern over what seems to be the unhappy condition of civilization,—international, national, economic, social, and physical. Many have indeed gone so far as to say, in respect to the world's apparent condition, not only that civilization is sick, but that unless measures are taken to remedy its ills, it will die. Is it not the inference, then, that these leaders of civilization admit that mankind has singularly failed to make the world a safe place to live in?

There is a very marked correspondence between the confusion of thought of to-day and that which prevailed at the time of Jesus of Nazareth. Our leaders of the present time are seeking a way of salvation out of the difficulties into which they find themselves precipitated. So, too, in the dark hours preceding the dawn of the Christian era, Jesus found a world seeking a way of salvation—a way which would give to mankind their inalienable rights of health and happiness. Jesus, by precept and practice, showed the way in his Sermon on the Mount and by healing the sick, casting out evils, and raising the dead. That he and his way of salvation were rejected among men has not destroyed the truth.

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