Chicago, Illinois (Seventeenth Church).

Lecturer: Miss Lucia C. Coulson; introduced by Mrs. Mary Sands Lee, who said:—

Our greatly revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has written in her Message to The Mother Church for 1902 (p. 4), "Our thoughts of the Bible utter our lives." Certainly her own life evidenced the truth of this statement. From her early childhood, the Bible was her constant companion. Her interest in it was not primarily for its historical or literary value. She went to it daily for guidance in all that she thought and did.

As a result of this devotion there was revealed to her the Comforter, "the Spirit of truth," which, in fulfillment of Christ Jesus' prophecy, leads "into all truth." In the measure that this Comforter, Christian Science, is understood, it makes the omnipotence of God available to all of us in our everyday lives.

Mrs. Eddy has written in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 202), "The scientific unity which exists between God and man must be wrought out in life-practice, and God's will must be universally done."

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Third Church).

Lecturer: Peter V. Ross; introduced by Thomas Bushnie, who said:—

Christian Science is a subject which is claiming the earnest attention of thinking men and women in all walks of life; it is helping them to meet and master the many bewildering and ofttimes painful problems of human existence, and thus enabling them to enter into a more abundant sense of health, happiness, and well-being.

Throughout the ages, men have sought some Utopia wherein all discord and unrest would forever cease. That they are not satisfied to wait for some future life in which to experience this desirable state, indicates that they instinctively feel that happiness and abundance are attainable here and now. Did not Christ Jesus promise as much? He said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." Christian Science makes plain our Master's promise by revealing to us the true nature of God as Love, and man's relationship to Him.

I have found that in the degree that I have been able to live in accord with the spiritual requirements of this divine relationship, my life has been transformed from a drab, meaningless existence into one of divine purpose, rich in possibilities for good, and blessed with the wealth of a peaceful mind, quiet confidence, and surety "that my redeemer liveth," and that my redeemer—the redeemer of all mankind—is Christian Science, the religion of love.

Mansfield, Ohio (First Church).

Lecturer: John Randall Dunn; introduced by Carl A. Cromer, who said:—

In the first epistle of John it is written: "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure."

This purifying and redemptive process of right thinking, as understood in Christian Science, heals the moral ills of mankind. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 316), "The real man being linked by Science to his Maker, mortals need only turn from sin and lose sight of mortal selfhood to find Christ, the real man and his relation to God, and to recognize the divine sonship."

Through the realization of the truth of these and similar statements, I have experienced many healings. One of the first proofs I had of the healing power of Christian Science was the loss of the desire to smoke and to use intoxicating liquors. Day by day, as the understanding of the Science of being has unfolded to me and to my family, many problems in daily life have been met and conquered, and we have received many blessings.

Utica, New York (First Church).

Lecturer: William Duncan Kilpatrick; introduced by Howard T. Berg, who said:—

In the first chapter of the book of Genesis we read that God created the heaven and the earth, man, and all things, and made them good. For hundreds of years, good Christians and earnest students of the Bible have been trying to reconcile the record of this good creation with the world as it is perceived through the five material senses. They ask, Can this picture of the world, with its wars and rumors of wars, its hard times, sicknesses, accidents—can this be the good creation which God made?

Christian Science shows us that the masquerade of matter which is seemingly taking place in our experience, is not the real creation at all. It is only a false, distorted sense of things. In reality, the good creation spoken of in the first chapter of Genesis is the only creation there is, and if we look beyond the material mask of poverty, sickness, or old age, we shall see the good, spiritual, healthy creation which God made.

The ability to see the spiritual fact instead of the material illusion was the secret of Christ Jesus' marvelous success. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 313): "Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause." That is what students of Christian Science are striving to do. During the next hour we are going to plunge "beneath the material surface of things" and find "the spiritual cause."

Augusta, Maine (First Church).

Lecturer: Mrs. Elizabeth McArthur Thomson; introduced by Richard Warner Darling, who said:—

Students of Christian Science, who have made some progress in the study and practice of their religion, are able to prove with "signs following" that the truths of this Science are the same truths which fed the children of Israel in the wilderness; which delivered the three Hebrew captives from the fiery furnace; and which enabled Christ Jesus to perform his mighty works.

A word of assurance may be helpful from one whose life has been transformed by Christian Science. It is this: if you embark upon the study of Christian Science, and persevere therein, the time will come when you will count this step the wisest you have ever taken.

Covington, Kentucky (First Church).

Lecturer: Thomas E. Hurley; introduced by Ira McKinley, who said:—

In answer to the question, "How would you define Christian Science?" Mrs. Eddy writes in "Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 1), "As the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony."

Some years ago my health failed. After exhausting all that medical skill had to offer, and failing to obtain healing, I turned to Christian Science. Here, I gratefully acknowledge, I found not only physical relief, but also a practical religion which meets my daily needs. Through the study of the Bible, in conjunction with "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I have, like many others, gained an understanding of the Scriptures which has unlocked their treasures, and has enabled me to demonstrate in a degree that "the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."