The Lectures

Introductions to Lectures

with contributions from Anna Dijk-Bruyn van Rosenburg, Millicent J. Taylor, Hedwig Fuchs

Arnhem, Netherlands (Society).

Lecturer: Dr. Hendrik J. de Lange; introduced by Mrs. Anna Dijk-Bruyn van Rosenburg, who said:—

A lecture on Christian Science in our mother tongue makes the understanding of it easier, and serves the good purpose for which all lectures are designed. The size of this audience testifies to a longing for a knowledge of or for a deeper insight into the Science of Mind, of God, which when applied will provide for the necessities of mankind, and which is a remedy for the confusing, shifting opinions and modes of thought which alienate rather than unify.

Through the study of the Bible, illumined by our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we gain an ever-clearer understanding of the one immutable God, Love. This brings peace and trust in the omnipresence of good. Through thinking, working, and serving the one Spirit, Love, there is growing in men a good will, a brotherhood, which is manifesting itself all over the world. It is strengthened by the pattern regularly supplied by our authorized publications, daily, weekly, and monthly, and is spread by the spoken word, which is the declaration of the inspiration of Truth and Love.

Lexington, Massachusetts (First Church).

Lecturer: Colin Rücker Eddison; introduced by Miss Millicent J. Taylor, who said:—

Christian Science means so much to those who study and use it that they urgently desire to share it. Although I was not seeking physical healing when first I turned to Christian Science, I received it an hundredfold. I was healed of physical and nervous conditions, one after another, which had severely handicapped my work and play, and which all my life I had accepted as necessary. In addition, I was gradually built up in general health until today I can testify, with a thankful heart, to many years of joyous, uninterrupted activity. But grateful as I am for the blessing of health, I am even more grateful for the understanding that Christian Science gives of God as ever present, the divine Principle of protection, guidance, and love. It is this that I was really seeking when, in a time of insecurity and doubt, I turned to Christian Science for help. Its wonderful teaching enabled me to gain a practical confidence in good, based on actual experience. It has become the steadying truth of my daily life.

Pforzheim, Germany (First Church).

Lecturer: Miss Margaret Murney Glenn; introduced by Miss Hedwig Fuchs, who said:—

Throughout the world many different languages are spoken. Not everyone has the privilege of learning through academic education or other means languages other than his mother tongue, and yet there is one language which each individual can understand, and in which he can make himself understood. It is the language of love, our true mother tongue, and it speaks to us through Christian Science.

Christian Science sings to us a song of praise for God's love; and this is the music which stirred me to the depths of my heart, freeing, saving, and healing me. When Christian Science taught me to understand and prove that God is impersonal, impartial, unchangeable, all-embracing Love, I became a happier individual and began to know the truth which makes free. It came to my understanding like a "still small voice"; but as is revealed by the teaching of Christian Science, it did not come until I had prepared my consciousness to listen to impersonal Truth and Love without prejudice. Formerly I was one of those of whom Jesus said, "Their ears are dull of hearing."

"Life, Truth, and Love are the realities of divine Science. They dawn in faith and glow full-orbed in spiritual understanding," writes our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 298). "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches," is a thought frequently repeated in John's Revelation.

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