Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Fifth Church).

Lecturer: John Randall Dunn; introduced by George H. Duck, who said:—

Many years ago a friend of mine was healed of consumption through studying the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, in conjunction with the Bible. This young man had been given up as incurable after the best medical aid available and a change of climate had failed. It was undoubtedly because of this evidence of the healing power of Christian Science that I gladly accepted the help of a practitioner when Christian Science was recommended to me as a remedy for a distressing condition of ptomaine poisoning, which threatened my life and frightened my friends. The healing came so quickly and so comfortably that the experience excited a genuine and honest curiosity which developed into a study of the subject. Since this healing Christian Science has been my only medicine and physician.

Basel, Switzerland (Society).

Lecturer: Miss Margaret Murney Glenn; introduced by Mrs. Alber-Faust, who said:—

Christian Science is the religion of Love. I have been permitted to share abundantly in this great Love. When Christian Science came into my life I was sick, both mentally and physically, unable to fulfill my duties as a housewife and mother, and sometimes, therefore, near despair. When I began to study the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, without prejudice, and endeavored to correct my thinking, one complaint after another vanished. Christian Science showed me "a new heaven and a new earth;" and for this I am deeply grateful to God.

Henryetta, Oklahoma (Society).

Lecturer: John J. Flinn; introduced by Mrs. Laura Serena Staggs, who said:—

Christian Science came to me at a time when I was greatly in need of physical and mental healing, and also in need of a demonstrable religion; and these I have found in Christian Science. In the third chapter of the Gospel of John we read that Jesus told Nicodemus he must be born again in order to enter the kingdom of God. Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 519), says, "Mortals can never know the infinite, until they throw off the old man and reach the spiritual image and likeness." Since I have taken up the study of Christian Science I am grateful that as material thinking has given place to spiritual understanding in my own consciousness I have experienced better health and more happiness. In our family of five we have had many healings of so-called disease and accident, some instantaneous, others which took longer to complete.

London, England (Seventh Church).

Lecturer: Peter V. Ross; introduced by Arthur Reeder, who said:—

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 268), Mrs. Eddy writes: "In the material world, thought has brought to light with great rapidity many useful wonders. With like activity have thought's swift pinions been rising towards the realm of the real, to the spiritual cause of those lower things which give impulse to inquiry." It is because Christian Science has revealed the nature of the "realm of the real" in a way that all may understand, that thousands to-day are proving it to be the Comforter promised by Jesus the Christ, leading them into all truth. The words I have quoted, written many years ago, are as true to-day as when they were written. There is abundant evidence of deep and earnest inquiry, a desire to pierce the mystery, perplexity, and suffering that seem to beset human experience, and a refusal to accept without question mere theory and dogma, which do not satisfy enlightened reason, and which cannot be proved useful in everyday life.

From personal experience we can testify that to those who are ready to approach it with sincerity, Christian Science offers a complete remedy for every human need and the fulfillment of every right aspiration. Not only does it reveal the nature of reality, the kingdom of heaven, but it shows plainly the way by which we may learn to enter the kingdom, to "put off the old man" and to "put on the new."

We are glad that this Science can be understood and demonstrated by everybody; that as we learn with humility and unselfed love to put its teachings faithfully into practice, we find the mesmerism of matter and evil breaking down, that fear diminishes, that sickness and sin can be overcome, and that we gain a new outlook on life, a supreme confidence in omnipotent good, a deeper love for God, and a better understanding of His will. In my own case I have proved that the power of God, as revealed in Christian Science, is available now for the healing of sickness and for the solution of problems in business.

Kalamazoo, Michigan (First Church).

Lecturer: Bicknell Young; introduced by Archibald H. Peck, who said:—

One has but to take a stand for goodness and he immediately finds the seeming forces of evil arrayed against him. Even as children, we may have found ourselves ridiculed and laughed at when we have resisted the temptation to do evil. It takes real courage to be good. Indeed, it requires not only the desire to be so, but a true understanding of what constitutes goodness. It is here that Christian Science helps us; for it teaches that God is good—constitutes, in fact, all goodness. It follows, then, that in order to be good ourselves we must become Godlike. In other words we must understand and demonstrate that man is the image and likeness of the one God, good. Working from this firm basis, we are enabled to make real progress in overcoming evil.