LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND.

The teachings of Christian Science were last night [April 8] explained to a considerable audience in Hope Hall by Mr. Bicknell Young, member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, U.S.A. Lieut.-Col. Hobart, who presided, remarked that this was the first occasion on which a lecture on Christian Science had been presented in Liverpool. He (the chairman) stood there as one who, through a small measure only of understanding of the truth of man's divine Principle, God, had derived untold mercies and had been the recipient of many individual and family blessings. Christian Scientists. was not aggressive, nor were Christian Scientists. They did not aspire to convert any one, or to force their views on any individual. They show forbearance and Christian love towards everybody,—to all clergymen, to all medical gentlemen of whatever school, to all nurses and hospitals and institutions for the benefit of the human race, and for the destruction and overcoming of sin and sickness,—and that spirit of forbearance they looked for and expected from all others.

Liverpool Courier.

SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND.

The Earl of Dunmore's daughter, Lady Victoria Murray, Mrs. Ward (London), Mrs. Brimner, Miss Coutts Fowlie. Maurice Sanderson, Mr. Lewis Firth, and a number of other well-known persons, including a sprinkling of clergymen, were among the large audience that gathered at the Montgomery Hall last night [April 15] to hear the lecture on Christian Science given by Mr. Bicknell Young, a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass. Dr. Wilding, the Manchester gentleman who gave up his medical practice on account of his conversion to Christian Science, presided over the meeting, and said that many years of his life had been spent in the study and practice of medicine, and when he reached the conviction that Christian Science was the only true method of healing and the same as shown by Jesus, he forsook all material systems for this healing Christ.

His experience during the transitional period proved conclusively to him that it was not possible to combine the two, medicine and Christian Science. So in his study of Christian Science he found that the fundamentals of its teaching were higher than those of the teaching of medicine, just as the heavens were higher than the earth. He was engaged in the active practice of a profession which he really loved, and after trying every means which medicine advocated for the disease his daughter was suffering from—namely, tubercular disease of both hip joints and consumption of the lungs—and failing to alleviate or check the disease by those methods, until she was brought to the verge of the grave, he was persuaded to try Christian Science for her; and although he had no faith in Christian Science, he was ready to try anything to avert her approaching death. From the first Christian Science treatment all active disease ceased, and he could now tell them, with a heart overflowing with gratitude, that his daughter was perfectly healed. From that day, more than six years ago, to this she had never spent an hour in bed through sickness.

Several patients in his then medical practice, suffering from organic diseases which most medical men would have recognized as incurable, were healed without any material aid by Christian Science prayer. Since becoming a Christian Scientist he had seen many other so-called incurable diseases healed by this new-old Christ-power. One woman was recommended by her medical attendant—not himself—to try Christian Science, he telling her honestly and frankly that he knew of nothing in his profession which could any longer help her, and his prognosis was that she would never be any better, but was likely to get rapidly worse—altogether it was a hopeless outlook. It was a case of paralysis of twenty years' history, which had originated in the lower limbs, and at the time that the doctor recommended her to try Christian Science the whole body was more or less affected. When she was well enough to leave her bed at all she had to be carried downstairs in the morning and up again at night, being quite unable to help herself.

The result of Christian Science treatment was the immediate return of movement in the paralyzed limbs; within a few hours she was able to walk unaided about her room, and within a week was walking out of doors, completely liberated from the old bondage. This was over three years ago, since which time she had been in the enjoyment of perfect health. This practical religion, revealed to this age forty years ago, performs works which medicine, with its history of forty centuries of theories, accumulated experiences, and self-sacrificing lives, recognized and recorded as impossible. It must and did strongly attract the helpless and hopeless sufferer, and rightly so, because the fruits of its teaching were manifest in healing all manner of sickness and disease, in healing sin in oneself, in purifying one's character, in bringing one nearer to God, and showing us how it is possible, here and now, to begin to love one's neighbor as one's self.—Sheffield Independent.

BRISTOL, ENGLAND.

At the Lesser Colston Hall last evening [April 12], Mr. Bicknell Young delivered a lecture on Christian Science. Dr. F. Alex. Barton, who presided over a large attendance, said that of all the creeds and sects of religious though in England, probably none was receiving more attention than the "new theology" and Christian Science. The "new theology" was in its infancy, but Christian Science, with which alone they had to deal that evening, had for forty years been before the public, and had stood most severe and critical tests. It was probably due to the phenomenal success which had attended Christian Science, and the rapidity with which it had made advance both in America and the United Kingdom, that it not only had strong adherents, but strong opponents, and some of the articles which had appeared in the press were by their opponents. Christian Scientists were not in the least afraid of those articles, which did not worry them in any way at all. Indeed, it was an extraordinary thing that such articles had often been the cause of people looking into the subject of Christian Science when they would otherwise not have been attracted to it at all. Strangely enough, in England it was from their friends rather than from their foes that danger sometimes arose; for in answering questions, owing to the fact that they had only been acquainted with Christian Science for a short time, and had only an elementary knowledge, they often created an erroneous and misleading impression. Christian Science was not at all difficult to understand. Owing to the purity of their thought, children were sometimes more successful in their practice of it than grown-up folk, but an intimate knowledge of the whole subject was required before Christian Science could be explained clearly and precisely to other people. Therefore, the authorities had decided that only well-qualified people should deliver public lectures upon the subject. He asked those present not to be hasty in judging what they heard, but to look carefully into Christian Science.

Bristol Times and Mirror.