At Kingston, Ont.

The lecture on Christian Science which Judge William G. Ewing delivered here Monday evening, February 4, attracted an audience that packed City Hall to the doors. It was such a noteworthy gathering of the intellectual and religious people of the city, that one of the daily papers printed the following statement:—

"In reference to the audience the speaker stated afterwards to a Whig reporter: 'You can say for me that, though I have been in almost every city in the United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from your Dominions to the Mexican border, yet have I never addressed a more thoughtful or more appreciative audience.'"

John McIntyre, K.C., introduced Judge Ewing in the following words:—

The Christian Scientists of Kingston have been fortunate enough to secure the presence to-night of the Hon. Mr. Ewing of Chicago to lecture on Christian Science. The honorable lecturer is a gentleman eminently qualified to expound and illustrate the principles of Christian Science In this University City, I am very sure he will receive a most patient hearing. We are all invested with mental, moral, and spiritual powers, and therefore are ever seeking after truth. Truth is not ashamed of the open, is not afraid of the sneer, does not fear persecution or calumny, but rather flourishes by reason of taunts and opposition. We are all desirous of finding out the Truth, and we bend our energies to its most careful investigation. The stern old Roman governor Pilate enquired of the gentle victim before him, "What is truth?" and though the inflexible upholder of Roman despotism did not personally profit by the reply, but crucified his prisoner, yet for two thousand years, the truth has lived and expanded and flourished. A howling mob in Jerusalem assaulted the great Apostle of the Gentiles, St. Paul, and cried, "Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live," but though he afterward fell under the sword of the Imperial executioner, yet the truth he expounded lived and flourished. With most marked penitence, did St. Paul himself bear testimony to the signal wrong which he had committed, when a few years before that, he fanatically joined another howling mob, which with oaths and violence stoned the first martyr to death, and actually held the garments of those who dealt the murderous blows. "Truth crushed to earth shall rise again." We are here to-night to listen to an exposition of the principles of Christian Science. We desire to get at the truth. I have great pleasure in introducing the Hon. William G. Ewing, who belongs to the same profession to which I have the honor to belong, and who will speak to us on this important and interesting subject.

In addition to giving the usual synopsis of the lecture, the Daily British Whig published the following:—

In his peroration Judge Ewing paid a noble and eloquent tribute to our departed queen. He spoke of the most profound sorrow in the United States. "I am sure," he declared, "the tears of myself and my people fall as lovingly as yours. She was a womanly queen, and what is better and greater still—a queenly woman."

In tendering the vote of thanks to Judge Ewing, after the lecture. Mr. McIntyre, spoke as follows:—

"Judge Ewing, on behalf of this most interested audience. I thank you for the impressive and masterly address to which we have just listened. You have given us something to think of, to meditate upon, and I am sure that much advantage will be derived by every one of us from what we have heard. The subject is new to many of us, and your expert handling of it will lead to thoughtful and patient investigation.

"As one of her late Britannic Majesty's subjects, and a subject of his present Majesty, King Edward VII., and on behalf of this audience of British citizens, I thank you cordially for the most kind and sympathetic expressions which fell from your lips with regard to our late beloved Queen. We loved our Queen; we honored her in life; we honor her in death. We honor her memory, and we honor any one who speaks with regard to her in the feeling and eloquent manner in which you have done. It was a proud satisfaction to us to learn that through the wide expanse of the United States of America, a profound sympathy with us in our great bereavement prevailed, and I thank you specially for the marked eulogy you paid to her memory in referring to her as a most womanly Queen and a most Queenly woman.

"Again I thank you for your kind and sympathetic expressions which have touched our hearts."

In replying Judge Ewing said: "If I were as worthy to speak well of her as she was worthy to be spoken well of I would be happy. I loved your Queen; I love her memory." His sympathetic references to the dead sovereign we adored called forth loud applause.

The lecture made a very favorable impression upon the people of Kingston.—Correspondence.

At Philadelphia, Pa.

Carol Norton, C.S.D., of New York, member of the Board of Lectureship of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, gave the semi-annual free lecture of First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Philadelphia, Chestnut Street, above Eighteenth, yesterday afternoon (Thursday, February 7). His subject was "A Third of a Century of Christian Science."—Philadelphia Inquirer.

The lecturer was introduced by Prof. Theodore F. Seward of New York, as follows:—

The present is joined to the past by a thousand subtle and invisible but very vital links. The infant Philadelphia of two centuries ago prepared the way for this meeting in the Philadelphia of to-day by its acceptance of the Quaker principles of George Fox and William Penn. Quakerism was a forerunner of Christian Science. Listen to these words from its founder and truly inspired apostle, George Fox. "The Lord's everlasting Truth is breaking forth again in His eternal power in this our day in England." Substitute America for England in this sentence, and it may stand as the trumpet-call of Christian Science to the present day and generation.

Quakers were first called "Children of Light," because they believed in the inner spiritual kingdom and in a divine light therein. Their motto was "Preach the spirit. Practise goodness;" which is the essence of Christian Science.

Although history repeats itself, the repetition is never on the same level. Humanity is progressing. It not only moves forward, but upward. Its motion is spiral. Quakerism did a noble work, but it lacked objectivity. It was too largely introspective. The aggressive evangelism of the Methodists was needed to supplement and apply its message. Christian Science, on the contrary, includes both principles—the subjective and the objective. It is not only many-sided, but all-sided. It not only presents a theory of life, but supplies rules and principles for the complete application of the theory. To speak specifically, we may say that Christian Science is three things. It is religion, it is Science, it is a system of healing. As religion, it ministers to man's spiritual life, establishing churches as a necessary means to this end at the present stage of development. As Science, it teaches the law of dominion over the material. Physical science has always sought to gain this mastery, but Christian or Spiritual Science really accomplishes it. As a system of healing, Christian Science overcomes the diseases of the body, whether hereditary, chronic, or acute.

The system or method of church government in Christian Science is purely congregational and democratic, and not hierarchical or sacerdotal. The church is an expression of the spiritual life of its members. Christian Science is a message of peace to restless and unsatisfied human hearts in and out of the churches. When I gained the idea of divine immanence I found a new comfort and strength. I was even able to help others by the books I wrote on the subject in which I emphasized the infinitude and perfection of the divine Love by which our lives are guided. I was sometimes called the "don't worry man" by reason of the book I published with that title. In fact, I gave a lecture on the subject three years ago in Horticultural Hall in this city. But, like many other preachers, I failed to make a complete application of my own principles. My philosophy enabled me to overcome anxiety and fear to some extent, yet it must be confessed that I did worry more or less. The standard of the Master is: "Let not your heart be troubled," or even "rippled," as is the meaning of the original word. The image is that of a glassy lake whose surface is so smooth that it perfectly reflects the sun and sky and all beautiful objects above it.

Having formerly been associated somewhat with Mental Scientists in this city and elsewhere, I think it is but just to them to explain why I now take a strong stand for Christian Science, and for Mrs. Eddy as its interpreter. It is because, after long and painful experience, and after as profound study of the subject as I am capable of making, I became convinced that there is no resting place, either in thought or experience, this side of absolute idealism as proclaimed and expounded in the book entitled. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," written by Mary Baker G. Eddy. I became satisfied that while belief in the predominance of mind over matter is a great step in advance of materialism and scholastic theology, yet it is not the final goal. It does not lead to the rest and peace which the Saviour of the world promised to his followers. We may preach "don't worry," but as long as we concede reality to matter, and potentiality to evil, it is impossible to eliminate anxiety entirely from the mind.

But I must not give this audience any occasion for worrying by occupying time that belongs to the lecture, and I therefore take great pleasure in introducing my friend Carol Norton of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston.

At New Rochelle, N. Y.

An audience of about two hundred and fifty intelligent listeners heard the lecture by Carol Norton, C.S.D., of New York, on the subject, "A Third of a Century of Christian Science: Its Past, Present, and Future," at Metropolitan Hall on Tuesday evening (January 29). The lecture was given under the auspices of the Christian Science Society of this city.

Mr. Norton was introduced by Mr. Stanley Burger of New York.—New Rochelle Pioneer.

Mr. Burger spoke in part as follows:—

The Bible records that, at the last appearance and talk of Jesus to his disciples, just prior to his ascension, he gave this command: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." As is well known, it is because of the desire to obey this command, as well as because of man's love for man, that the motive for the establishment and spread of the Christian religion, is found. That this same motive actuates Christian Scientists in their efforts to make their doctrines known to all man, cannot be doubted by any one. And an additional motive for their desire that the teachings of Christian Science become universally known and practised, is because of the fact that this will fulfil the completed command of Jesus, "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils;" and it is because Christian Science has so much to offer to mankind that its adherents are so earnest in its behalf. It is for the lecturer to tell you what Christian Science is, what its promises are, what it has done and can do. I will simply say that you have not been invited here to learn of anything "new," for as Solomon says, "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun." We know this to be true, for no matter what apparently new invention or idea is brought forward, it is but the manifestation of an unseen and heretofore unknown principle that has always existed. And so Christian Scientists simply ask your sober consideration of new light upon old truths; your careful investigation of its teachings which are founded on the Scriptures; and your remembrance of the fact that a vast concourse of devout, intelligent men and women have found through its teachings, that God is defined to them as never before, and hence have come to know their own true individuality and the reason of their existence and their life mission. Many of them have been restored to health and family and friends when all hope had fled and death or invalidism seemed inevitable, by the understanding of God as revealed through Christian Science.

I know you will consider it a privilege to listen to the speaker of the evening, with that tolerance and desire to know the truth about all things that is so characteristic of the American people. I take great pleasure in introducing to you as the evening's lecturer, a Christian Scientist who has followed its teachings for more than ten years, and who is eminently qualified by reason of practical experience and knowledge of its healing and reformatory work, as well as its religious teachings, to speak upon the subject. Allow me to present to you Carol Norton, C.S.D., of New York.—Correspondence.

At Woburn, Mass.

An audience of about six hundred ladies and gentlemen, a considerable portion of whom were from out of town, gathered in the Auditorium Tuesday evening (January 29, 1901), to listen to an address upon Christian Science, under the auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist, by Hon. William G. Ewing of Chicago, a man who has held high judicial positions in his state, and whose fame as a ready and eloquent speaker is national.

Promptly at 7.45 p.m., the speaker of the evening stepped upon the platform, accompanied by Mayor Davis. His Honor in pertinent phrase introduced the speaker, very happily referring to the fact that in the history of this ancient municipality it was first the church and then the town, and that for years the history of the church was the history of the municipality.

Judge Ewing is a quiet platform speaker, earnest in manner. devoid of extravagant gesture, seeking by logical methods to win and hold attention.—Woburn News.

Hon. William F. Davis, Mayor of Woburn, spoke as follows:—

The corner-stone of this old municipality is the church placed in position by the fathers nearly two hundred and sixty years ago, who, as the representatives of the mother church in Charlestown, pushed out into the wilderness and established a branch of their church here. For many years the church was largely identified with the municipality, the history of one being the history of the other. Much progress has been made in religious thought since the early days. yet those people lived according to the light that was given them.

Being desirous of welcoming everything good into our community, I accepted the invitation of the committee to introduce the distinguished speaker of the evening. Although, perhaps, I may not endorse all the doctrines that may be presented to you. I feel that if they cause any of our people to lead better and consequently happier lives, they deserve official welcome and encouragement. So it is with a great deal of pleasure that I welcome to our city the distinguished gentleman who is to address you on the subject of Christian Science. While we may not agree with all his conclusions, I bespeak for him a respectful and attentive hearing. We have reason to be thankful to the people who have invited him for the opportunity of learning the truths of this Science from the lips of so distinguished an advocate.

I have the pleasure of presenting to you. Judge William G. Ewing of Chicago.

The Woburn press published a generous abstract of Judge Ewing's lecture. Two criticisms on the lecture made by persons present are eminently satisfactory; first, that they had heard all these things from Sunday to Sunday (showing that Christian Science teaches no strange doctrine); secondly, that they did not hear as much about Christian Science as they would have liked.

The demonstration we have wrought in presenting Christian Science publicly to the thoughtful people of Woburn gives us great comfort.—Correspondence.

At Cambridge, Mass.

On Friday evening, February 1, Brattle Hall was crowded in advance of the time for the lecture with an audience that filled the seating capacity of the stage and auditorium, and soon required the aisles for standing room. A hundred or more of those arriving late were unable to find entrance. The floral decoration of the stage was tasteful, carrying out the illusion of a woodland scene. At eight o'clock, Mr. H. N. Wheeler, vice-president of the Social Union, introduced the lecturer. Rev. William P. McKenzie, C.S.B., a member of the Board of Lecturers appointed by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. The subject of the lecture was "Christian Science the Panacea for the World's Unrest."—Cambridge Tribune.

At Meadville, Pa.

The lecture at Meadville, Pa., an account of which appeared in the Sentinel for January 31, was given under the auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist. The lecturer was introduced by Rev. Irving Beman.

The Postage Stamp Mill.

Millions upon millions of new crisp currency bills are being turned out by the bureau of engraving and printing to replace the defaced and worn-out greenbacks which are constantly coming back into the treasury, to be eventually ground and smashed up into pulp, says the Washington Times. Huge printing presses are constantly at work in the steel protected rooms of the treasury department. It is, in fact, safely estimated that by the close of the present year these presses will have turned out enough greenbacks to furnish each of the seventy-six million inhabitants of this land with about ten dollars each. This means that 107,500,000 crisp new bills of various denominations will be used.

In the matter of postage stamps, the figures are even more enormous. It is estimated that on an average every man, woman, and child in the United States will use fifty-three postage stamps during the year 1901, forty of them being of the popular two-cent denomination. The total number consumed will be over 4,000,000,000, and nearly 1,000,000,000 of these will be of the one-cent variety. One person out of every ten will send a special delivery letter in the course of the present year.

Cuba, in 1901, will require about sixteen million ordinary stamps, with one hundred thousand "special deliveries," all of which will be turned out at Uncle Sam's money mill in Washington. The Philippines will use up five million stamps. Porto Rico 1,600,000, and Guam 150,000. Of course, Guam, Porto Rico, and the Philippines have no stamps of their own, properly speaking, but are supplied with the ordinary United States postage stamps, altered simply by the addition of a word printed across the face of each one in unornamented black letters. Thus all Guam stamps have the word "Guam" marked on them, as if it were for cancellation, and the word "Philippines" makes our common stamps serviceable for carrying mail matter in Uncle Sam's new oriental archipelago.