Lockport, N.Y.

A large and appreciative audience, composed principally of local and visiting Christian Scientists, but also numbering many not of this faith, listened attentively to a lecture on the subject of Christian Science delivered in Assembly Hall, Thursday evening [March 9] by Bicknell Young of Chicago. The lecture was given under the auspices of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, of this city. The Rev. G. A. Brock, pastor of the East Avenue Congregational Church, in a very courteous manner introduced Mr. Young, saying in part,—

Your are all aware, friends, that my presence here is not due to the fact that I am a Christian Scientist. I am a Congregationalist, and that very fact leads me to be very generous in my judgments and opinions regarding the faith and teachings of other Christian bodies. History repeats itself, conservatism is always in the saddle, the prophet at the stake, and yet truth crushed to earth must rise again. Congregationalism, according to my history, had to fight against desperate opposition, it was ridiculed, persecuted, driven from its native soil. The iron-hearted men sought freedom of conscience across the wintry seas and founded their religion on the rock-ribbed shores of New England.

In the same way, friends, your faith has been obliged to fight for its existence. But in spite of ridicule, invective, and ostracism the "grain of mustard seed" planted by Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy in Boston — the citadel of Congregationalism — has grown during thirty years until its shade reaches unto the uttermost parts of the earth. I was living in Boston when Mrs. Eddy began her work there. I remember even yet the impression her Sunday service made upon my mind. It was in a very small hall near Boston Common. The room was well filled. I expected something extraordinary, as a Harvard undergraduate: I expected to be amused. Not at all; there was intensity, sweetness, quietness, power.

Mrs. Eddy's talk was religious, rather than polemical. That was the beginning. People said it was a religious fad and would soon die out. Two years ago I spent August in Boston. I preached in one of the Congregational churches there. The next week our religious paper gave a report of a Sunday canvass.

There were more people in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, than in all the Congregational, Unitarian, and Universalist churches in the city. Seed — mustard tree!

A friend of mine recently visited New York City and attended a Christian Science church on a Sunday evening. The church was packed and the number of men present was a subject of comment. In view of this wonderful development, whereby, within the lifetime of the Founder, a religious set has suddenyl by leaps and bounds taken its place among religious factors of our age, it behooves all of us, no matter how we may feel, to take the position assumed by say, "If this counsel or this work be of men, it will be overthrown: but if it is of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them; lest haply ye be found even to be fighting against God" (Revised Version).

If, my brother, your revelation of the divine will, the divine faith, the divine love is richer, deeper, nobler, than the world bless your teachings and your church. This is God's world. His truth must eventually prevail. I am glad, therefore, of this privilege of welcoming you to our city.

Im am pleased to see so many eager faces here. We have but little time, sir, to study the deeper truths, the more spiritual concepts, the holier and diviner aspirations and inspirations of your system of faith. It will do us all good to listen to these things from the lips of one whose mind is clear. whose heart is surcharged, whose purpose is in flamed to teach to needy men the unsearchable riches of health, strength, and salvation through Christ.

It gives me great pleasure, dear friends, to introduce of you at this time, as the distinguished speaker of the evening, Bicknell Young. — Lockport Journal.

Lincoln, Neb.

The lecture given at the Oliver Theatre last nighty [March 12], under the auspices of First Church of Scientist, by Mrs. Sue Harper Mims of Atlanta, Ga., was probably the most successful in point of attendance and interest that has ever been given by this denomination in this city. Horace H. W. Hebbard, First Reader of the local Christian Science church, introduced the lecturer, saying in part,—

Christian Science is identical with the religion of Jesus in that it does not rely on a mere statement of its doctrine to satsify inquirers, but furnishes absolute proof of its efficacy and divine nature in the healing of physical disease and of sin, and unless these signs do follow, the teaching of Christian Science has not been intelligently and scientifically applied.

Christian Science is pre-eminently a religion of works and not of words only, and in this it is susceptible of being measured by the standard laid down by Jesus when he said, "By their fruits ye shall know them." And is it not significant that in all his recorded sayings the Master never established any other test of discipleship than that of works? He knew also that they could not accomplish the works that he accomplished, which were the result of right thinking, without thinking right themselves, and we have Scriptural authority for the statement that as a man "thinketh in his heart, so is he." — Nebraska State Journal.

St. Joseph, Mo

On Tuesday evening, January 24, under the auspices of First and Second Churches of Christ, Scientist, the Hon. Clarence A. Buskirk of Princeton, delivered a lecture on Christian Science at the Lyceum Theatre, to a representative audience. Ex-Senator Wm. H. Haynes introduced the speaker. It will be remembered that ex-Senator Haynes made a memorable speech before the Senate and House of Representatives against the Hall Medical Bill in our State Legislature, three or four years ago. The lecture was published in full in The News and press.
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