Items of Interest April 16, 1932 Issue

Items of Interest

The often overflowing attendance at lectures on Christian Science given by members of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church is gratifying and desirable. There are occasions, however, when the auditorium is not large enough to accommodate those who wish entrance, even though aisles and stairways and entrance halls are used to the extent allowed by the local ordinances. Then some of the strangers and others who do not gain entrance may wonder how many are inside who have attended other recent lectures given by the same lecturer. Especially, when a lecturer is speaking in adjacent cities or in suburbs of a large city, some inconsiderately attend all or many of the series.

It is true that a listener may reap blessings and learn new lessons even when hearing the same lecture repeated, but if he continue this to excess he may deprive others of the opportunity of listening, or require them to stand at a distance in corridor or hallway where they gather but part of what is said. The necessity to stand throughout a lecture, or to listen from a remote corner outside the auditorium, may result in a lessening of the joy and benefit which the attendant quite naturally should expect to experience.

As occurred recently at a lecture near Boston, many Christian Scientists awaited the coming of the lecturer to their own immediate neighborhood, desiring to support the work in that place, and they, with strangers who knew not the need of earlier coming, found it impossible to gain entrance because of the large number of Christian Scientists from neighboring suburbs already there, many of whom it was found had heard the lecture one or more times before. While earnest Christian Scientists will actively support the work of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, they should not allow their own desire to learn more of the truth to overshadow their loving consideration of their fellow workers, and of the strangers who may be attending a lecture perhaps for the first time.

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