THE LECTURES
PUEBLO, COL.
Mrs. Sue Harper Mims of Atlanta, Ga., lectured Tuesday night [Sept. 17] at the Grand Opera House on Christian Science. Mrs. Mims was introduced by the wellknown business man, Mr. C. G. Seeley, who spoke in part as follows:—
It is generally conceded that people are seeking to know more of life and its realities, and this can be found only in a knowledge of Truth, which must come to us through divine revelation. The prophets and sages of all times have desired to attain to that attitude where they might recognize the revelations and creations of the infinite in their true light and meaning, and this desire has been met according to its need. This seeking has been manifest in all ages in the unrest of man. For this the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness forty years, since which time innumerable migrations have been made from place to place, seeking health and happiness; but alas, too often have the new surroundings entailed as much of a sense of bondage as those of previous location and conditions. Thus it will ever be to those of us who seek this light through material means. There has come to our age a revealing of Truth, which supplies this need by showing to mankind that health and happiness are obtainable here and now, and not only at some future time and distant place. This comes as a cup of cold water to the weary wanderer and will guide the seeker into a new land.—The Pueblo Chieftain.
OLEAN, N. Y.
The lecture given in First Church of Christ. Scientist, last evening [Sept. 24] by Frank H. Leonard was listened to by a large and attentive audience. The speaker was introduced by Mrs. Alice L. Randolph, First Reader of the local church, who said in part,—
We are confident that a fair investigation of Christian Science must result in its adoption as a desirable pathway leading out of the ceremonies and doctrines of men into the worship of God in the simplicity and beauty of Spirit, and also as a reliable pathway out of worry, sorrow, and fear into courage and hope, out of disease and suffering into health and peace. How do we know that Christian Science is such a pathway? We know because we have traversed it and found it so, and it might in Bible language be truly said of many in this audience, "The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up."—Olean Times.
LEXINGTON, MO.
At the Grand Opera House, Sept. 26, Bicknell Young delivered a lecture on Christian Science. He was introduced by E. M. Taubman, who said in part,—
To-day as never before in its history, the world is striving to get upon a higher moral plane. People, everywhere, are seeking laws consistent with higher ideals of living, and with irresistible power are demanding that those laws be enforced. A ban has been placed upon evil and a premium upon righteousness. A great tidal wave of reform seems to be sweeping over this land of ours. The tendency of the times is unquestionably towards better, loftier, and nobler things. These conditions have been brought about by Christian education, the influence of the church and the teachings of consecrated men and women. The business of making the world better, of uplifting humanity, of cheering the downcast, of raising the burdens from off the weary hearts of the hopeless, and of pointing out a final goal of sweet rest and eternal repose, is not and never has been confined to any particular church, sect, or organization. And all who are seeking to cause one little ray of sunshine to penetrate even the wee dark corners of this world of ours, are working with God, and should be loyally encouraged and enthusiastically applauded. Sincere men and organizations everywhere, whose aim is the service of God and the betterment of humanity, should be accorded recognition and support. The Christian Science Church is faithfully working out its mission, and in the past decade or two has grown and flourished like unto the cedars of Lebanon.
Correspondence.
HAMILTON, ONT.
On Sunday afternoon, Sept. 29 the Hon. Clarence A. Buskirk of St. Louis, Mo., delivered a lecture on Christian Science in the new Bennett Theater to an audience of about one thousand, more than twice as many as had ever attended a Christian Science lecture here before He was introduced to the audience by Mr. Walter S. Middleton, the clerk of the church, who said in part.—
Thomas Carlyle says, "No man has any business to speak of his religious beliefs unless they dominate his life; otherwise he has only opinions." No thoughtful person will affirm that the teachings of Christ dominate the average Christian at the present time. Hence every one thinks for himself and consequently we have relative honesty, relative truthfulness, etc., leading to commercialism with its greed and its misery. There can be only one absolute truth, and Christian Scientists declare that they have found it to be the recognition that the whole universe is spiritual, as the words and works of Christshowed. Twenty years age, in his famous Belfast address, Tyndall traced life to a piece of protoplasm and sorrowfully declared he could see nothing behind the veil at its back. Twenty years before that a woman, Mrs. Eddy, had stood before the same piece of jelly with its veil: but she, with the daring of a woman, stepped behind the veil and found "a new heaven and a new earth." and both veil and jelly had disappeared. Since then her writings and her life have affirmed that it was not her own cleverness that led her there, but that it was a fulfilment of the promise. And I if I be lifted up from The earth, will draw all men unto me." since them she has been the means of drawing hundreds of thousands to the truth that makes free.—Correspondence.
WICHITA, KAN.
An audience of over fifteen hundred listened with closest attention to the lecture on Christian Science given by Judge Willian G. Ewing of Chicago. in the New Auditorium. Sunday afternoon [Sept. 29]. The speaker was introduced by Mrs. Madeleine Taylor Jocelyn. First Reader, who said in part.—
Christian Science, old as the everlasting hills; Christian Science, the same which Jesus the Christ taught and demonstrated so many years ago. with nothing added to it, with nothing taken away from it, comes to answer the question. What is truth" It comes bearing the impress of divine authority and brings to doubting, sorrowing hearts the beneficence of a Father's eternal love.
The Wichita Eagle.
