Article April 12, 1924 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Mabel W. Hewitt, John Bradley McKee, Paul Marczinski

Grand Rapids, Mich. (First Church).—Mrs. Mabel W. Hewitt made the following remarks prefatory to a lecture by Miss Margaret Murney Glenn:—

We are living in an essentially practical age, an age unparalleled in its discoveries and achievements, an age, too, in which religion must be practical in order to claim the world's attention. What should constitute such a religion? For me it would mean having God's love and protecting care always at hand, not theoretically, but actually available in every need. It would mean that an understanding, in a degree, of the omnipotence and the omnipresence of God would dispel fear and bring health and peace, even as it did to the humble followers of the Nazarene, over nineteen hundred years ago. The latter part of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth have witnessed the rediscovery and vindication of such a religion in Christian Science.

Christian Science has proved to mankind that it is practical. It has carried comfort and healing to the sick and sorrowing; it has solved business problems, and has brought happiness where were discord and despair. It has, above all, made possible an understanding of God which means even more to its adherents than freedom from disease.

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