The Lectures

Introductions to Lectures

with contributions from Richard J. Davis, May S. Little, Robert Stanley Ross, Ernest C. Fetzer

St. Louis, Missouri (First Church).

Lecturer: Richard J. Davis. Introducer: Mrs. May S. Little.

The opening sentence in the Preface to our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. vii), reads, "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." I am sure there are unnumbered thousands of earnest students of Christian Science who have proved the truth of this statement, having received manifold blessings.

When I first asked for help in Christian Science I had been suffering from nervous exhaustion for twelve years. During that time, like the woman in the Bible, I had "suffered many things of many physicians, ... and was nothing bettered." Christian Science healed me. The understanding of God as the God of love, and of man as His image and likeness, whose birthright is dominion, revealed a new world to me. It changed my thoughts, my life, my desires and ambitions, from a material to a spiritual basis. It has brought joy and peace to my heart.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Third Church).

Lecturer: Robert Stanley Ross. Introducer: Ernest C. Fetzer.

Emerson has said, "The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it." Every Christian Science healing is accomplished by the application in some degree of spiritual truth. Mrs. Eddy sasy in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 111), that "the practice of divine metaphysics is the utilization of the power of Truth over error;" and on page 12, that Jesus' prayers "were deep and conscientious protests of Truth,—of man's likeness to God and of man's unity with Truth and Love." The results of the use and practice of the truth, as taught in Christian Science, are well known.

Personally, I have been healed of many complaints,—of heart trouble, acute nervousness, and the liquor habit. I have attended many lectures on Christian Science, and have yet to attend one without being uplifted and receiving an increased measure of happiness and joy. In reality only the truth is appreciated, for no one rejoices in the false.

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