The Lectures

with contributions from Carrington Howard, Algae E. Rich, Lurisse T. Maddocks

Introductions to Lectures

Montclair, New Jersey (First Church).

Lecturer: Prof. Hermann S. Hering; introduced by Carrington Howard, who said:—

From the beginning of time people mentally awake have been eager to know about, and make their own, whatever would make life for them and those dear to them happier, freer from trouble and sickness, and fuller of the good things of life. Christian Scientists are finding through their study and application of the teachings of Christian Science, a satisfactory solution to problems of so many different kinds, of health, of business, of disposition, that it has proved to be the veritable way of salvation for them. I was recently in a Christian Science Reading Room in the heart of New York's downtown business district, and I picked up a little book containing a compilation of newspaper editorials written about sixteen years ago (Editorial Comments on the Life and Work of Mary Baker Eddy). As I read the comments and tributes written by these independent thinkers from one end of our country to the other, I realized as never before the extent to which Mrs. Eddy was given credit for affecting the thinking of the world. This effect was not the result of an emotional wave such as may follow in the wake of a great preacher, but, rather, the result of the "still small voice" of Truth, revealed in the Bible in the light of Mrs. Eddy's teachings. This "still small voice" came to the individual consciousness of one person and then another and made life for them more free, and more full, and religion more vital.

Oakland, California (Third Church).

Lecturer: Frank Bell; introduced by Mrs. Algae E. Rich, who said:—

In my experience Christian Science has opened to me the way of salvation, salvation from the false beliefs of a selfhood apart from God, good. It is teaching me daily how to express more love, more harmony. Christian Science is offering to all mankind a full salvation from material thinking. In the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy gives us the following definition of "salvation" (p. 593): "Life, Truth, and Love understood and demonstrated as supreme over all; sin, sickness, and death destroyed." Through the truth revealed in this wonderful statement, thousands of men and women have been awakened to a desire for this understanding which heals and regenerates.

Fairbanks, Alaska (Society).

Lecturer: Robert Stanley Ross; introduced by Mrs. Lurisse T. Maddocks, who said:—

I did not first turn to Christian Science for physical healing; but I had seen others healed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, and I was compelled to believe in the healing power of this truth. Gradually I became conscious that it meant more than merely a name to become a Christian Scientist; and a longing to be worthy of the name came to me. Christian Science is the religion of love. John said, "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love;" and Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 140), "The Christian Science God is universal, eternal, divine Love, which changeth not and causeth no evil, disease, nor death."

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