Article July 17, 1926 Issue

The Lectures

Introductions to Lectures

with contributions from Dorothy Agnes Crosthwaite, William M. Sellman, George H. Wilkins, Thomas Norton McClelland, Harriett Barnham Wood, Conrad George Gilster

Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa (First Church).

Lecturer: John Randall Dunn; introduced by Mrs. Dorothy Agnes Crosthwaite, who said:—

There is probably no subject on which there is a greater need for enlightenment as to its true teachings than the subject of Christian Science. Eleven years ago I accepted erroneous opinions about Christian Science, and as a result I deemed its teachings to be most dangerous from a religious point of view, and to be avoided at all costs; while its healing aspect I dismissed as being too absurd for consideration. Fortunately I was not allowed to remain under such a wrong impression. A friend of mine had been very seriously ill for fourteen years. She was a beautiful Christian, and everything that love could do for her had been done, from a medical point of view, by her church and by her friends, but all in vain; and when she was pronounced to be dying, she resolved to try Christian Science as a last resort. She was rescued from the very brink of the grave and gradually restored to a life of usefulness. This impressed me so much that I decided to investigate the teachings of Christian Science for myself. My own need was very great. Materia medica had stated that I could not live much longer, and that was the opinion of the friends who knew me intimately. I went to a Christian Science practitioner, secured a copy of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, studied it most earnestly, and found that what I had been led to believe was the teaching of Christian Science was not Christian Science at all but a misunderstanding about it.

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