Article November 28, 1931 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from James Robert Baylis, Earl E. Simms, George Henry Brumell, Edna D. Inskip, William G. Arnott

Williamstown, Massachusetts (Society of Williams College).

Lecturer: W. Stuart Booth; introduced by James Robert Baylis, who said:—

Everyone here is, I think, familiar to some extent with the life and teachings of Christ Jesus, the Founder of that widespread religion known to-day as Christianity; and I am sure everyone knows something of the miracles wrought by this man in the healing of the sick and in the raising of the dead in many cities and villages of Palestine almost two thousand years ago. Christianity as a religion of healing lasted about three hundred years as the disciples of the great Master continued his healing work; and Christianity has existed down through the centuries to the present. In the religion of Jesus, the healing of the sick and the raising of the dead, through his knowledge of the omnipotence of God, played a primary part; but how has this part been practiced during the centuries since the advent of the Christian era? Up to the time of the discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy, about sixty-five years ago, the world lacked the concrete proofs which Jesus had presented of God's protecting power. This was due to the loss of the faith which Jesus had had in God's power, for he himself had promised to him who believed on him, "The works that I do shall he do also." By healing herself of a supposedly incurable disease, Mrs. Eddy reëstablished the true relationship between God and man. By the understanding which she thus gained of the works of Jesus, she was enabled to heal the sick even as he had done, and in this way was able to restore that faith in God's illimitable power to her followers, multitudes of whom can now challenge mankind with the words of James, "Shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works."

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