Article May 16, 1925 Issue

Introducing the Lecturer

MILDRED SPRING CASE

The giving of a Christian Science lecture is an important and far-reaching event in a community. It is like a spring seed-sowing. And though the harvest may not be immediate, whenever the rich, fruitful seeds fall on good soil the harvest is ever sure.

The introduction of a lecture is a welcome, helping the listeners to open their hearts to receive. It is a preparation intended to make them more responsive and receptive. As was John the Baptist to Christ Jesus, so is the introduction the forerunner to the message concerning the healing Christ, Truth, which is to follow. It is like a wedge which slightly opens the casement, revealing just enough light to make the audience eager for the full radiance. It is the link connecting their thought and that of the lecture; for the introducer, being of the same community, is at-one with the listeners; and being a follower of Christian Science, he is also at-one with the lecturer and his message. And those in the audience, because of their feeling of fellow-citizenship with the introducer, will let him take them by the hand and lead them to the place where they, too, may behold the view.

As in every other phase of work in Christian Science, it is by being unselfed that the introducer best presents a helpful message. It is by full, deep gratitude for Christian Science in his own experience that he best gives forth his words of good-will. It is by drinking deep at the fountain of infinite intelligence that he is made ready to give forth a healing introduction to the lecture which follows. However great his human ability to speak in public, however well-known and honored he may be in his community, however splendid has been his success in healing through Christian Science, if he does not seek in humility and sincerity, in yearning and obedience for the message God has for that particular occasion, the words he speaks will be, to use Paul's words, as "sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal."

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