The Lectures

with contributions from Henry Bryson Ayers, Ida Denny Wheeler, John George Esser, Isabelle M. Lemke

Introductions to Lectures

Sierra Madre, California (First Church).

Lecturer: Professor Hermann S. Hering; introduced by Henry Bryson Ayers, who said:—

In the Gospel of Matthew we are told that our beloved Master, Christ Jesus, went about all the country doing good and healing all manner of sickness. By this token everyone who has been touched by the healing power of Truth, through Christian Science, knows beyond the shadow of a doubt that the mission of this Science, like that of our Master, is to do good.

After more than fifteen years' acquaintance with Christian Science I can gratefully testify that I have experienced healings of acute tonsillitis, hay fever, and the smoking habit, to which I had clung for more than twenty-five years, and which disappeared from my life just as darkness gives place to light.

Ottumwa, Iowa (First Church).

Lecturer: John Ellis Sedman; introduced by Mrs. Ida Denny Wheeler, who said:—

You know how badly out to shape a rubber ball becomes when held tightly in our grasp; but as soon as released the law of resiliency brings it back into shape. Do you know that the thinking of this world has been held so tightly in the grasp of materiality that it is badly warped and out of line when compared with God's creation and the teachings of Christ Jesus?

When I was young in the study of Christian Science one of our daughters had a severe attack of tonsillitis. In an effort demonstrate this truth I turned to the chapter on Prayer in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. While studying the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation, on pages 16 and 17, I came to this: "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven;" and the interpretation, "Enable us to know,—as in heaven, so on earth,—God is omnipotent, supreme." With my awakening to God's omnipotence on earth, the tension of anxiety and fear was lifted—loosed—and the healing was made manifest. Verily this revealed truth is the power which opens the prison doors to all who are bound, and frees the captive physically and spiritually.

Geneva, Illinois (First Church).

Lecturer: Rev. Irving C. Tomlinson; introduced by John George Esser, who said:—

Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has written on the first page of the Preface to the Christian Science textbook this very helpful and encouraging statement: "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." No doubt there are many here tonight who would like to lean "on the sustaining infinite" and receive these blessings, but who do not know how to do so. Through the study of Christian Science God is revealed to us as ever present Love; and as we learn the nature of the infinite One, we learn how to lean on Him in every emergency, and receive the promised blessings. In my own experience I have proved that, in the measure that I have relied wholly upon God as ever present Love, I have been blessed. I am only one of many in the world today who can testify to God's never failing care. Thousands are being healed of incurable diseases, of sin, sorrow, lack, and all manner of discords, through the understanding and application of Christian Science.

Fargo, North Dakota (First Church).

Lecturer: Miss Margaret Murney Glenn; introduced by Mrs. Isabelle M. Lemke, who said:—

Christian Science teaches us that spiritual vision which sees only the good. In Proverbs we read, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." In the Christian Science textbook (pp. 476, 477) it says: "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick." Jesus had the Christly vision to look above and beyond the seeming and to see only the real. The sick, the sorrowing, and the sinful did not appear real to him. He saw only the perfect man of God's creating, and this Christly vision healed the sick.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, also had this Christly vision, when, through her study of the Bible, she gleaned from it the wondrous truths contained in her writings. She had the vision to see that the healings performed by Jesus and his disciples were not for their day only, but for all time. By studying her writings, anyone who so wishes can gain a practical knowledge of Christian Science, and so demonstrate for himself what it has done and is doing for mankind.

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