Article August 9, 1924 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Carlotta Scobey Signor, Kate V. Keatley, Joseph Maxwell Carrere, Jennie Louise Haskell, William B. Shearon, Jessie A. Currier, Johannes Wachter-Grasslin, A. Victor Gilbert

Chicago, Ill. (First Church).—Mrs. Carlotta Scobey Signor spoke as follows when introducing Peter V. Ross, a Christian Science lecturer, to his audience:—

Christian Science does not modify old material methods of thinking, but radically changes them. This is no cause for alarm, however, for the beliefs and experiences based on the supposition that man was created in matter, lives a few uncertain years conditioned by matter, and then dies at the behest of matter, are not such precious possessions as to warrant our clinging to them; and indeed no one wants to cling to an inadequate heritage when he perceives that a better, happier, more satisfying consciousness may be his by radically changing his basis of thinking about Life and all its phenomena, from matter to Spirit, from chance to divine Principle, from evil to good, God. Each one who has seen something of the truth about God and man as taught in Christian Science and has honestly applied this truth to his thinking and actions has experienced, in a degree, the blessings which necessarily follow. He has at least glimpsed that a God of love does not desert His children, leaving them to wage a well-nigh hopeless battle against supposed inborn seeds of original sin and disease, but that man, God's creation, is ever in the presence of the infinite Father-Mother, Love, ever under the government, guidance, and protection of the all-wise, compassionate divine Principle of the universe. He learns that it is possible to know this, and to reap the blessings of such understanding.

Minneapolis, Minn. (Fourth Church).—Introducing Miss Mary G. Ewing, a Christian Science lecturer, to her audience, Mrs. Kate V. Keatley spoke as follows:—

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