TRENTON, N. J.

Frank H. Leonard lectured on Christian Science Sunday afternoon, April 7. He was introduced by Edward L. Katzenbach, Esq., who said in part,—

For some reason unknown to myself I have been asked to introduce the speaker of the afternoon, and I may add, without overstepping the bounds of truth, that I rejoice in an opportunity to express publicly my own observation of Christian Science and Christian Scientists. "By their fruits ye shall know them" is a saying old, tried, and true, and by their fruits and by these alone I have known and judged them. My acquaintance with the sect has been confined to what I have seen and not to what I have known, for I am not of the Christian Science faith, being a Presbyterian dyed in the wool and with the blue brought out and developed in the college of Edwards, Witherspoon, and McCosh. The few brief years when I studied law in Cambridge did not shake my faith in the religion of my fathers, but they did cause me to respect more thoroughly the religion of others and they did afford me a broader and more comprehensive view of what may be termed the philosophy of religion.

I have attended Mrs. Eddy's church in Boston and have been personally and intimately acquainted with a number of Christian Scientists, and two things most clearly impress me. In the first place—and this observation is easily verified—those who go to make up the body of followers of Mrs. Eddy are not the uneducated, the emotional, the unsuccessful portion of the community. They are educated, rational, and successful in the pursuit of business. This surely is a fact of great significance. In the second place—and this observation is also easily verified—most of those who profess to be Christian Scientists do what those of us who are not Christian Scientists would do well to do likewise, namely, live their religion. To them the teachings of Christ seem to be the rules of every-day living.

These are the things which make us not only willing but anxious to listen to Mr. Leonard when he tells us of the Christian Science faith. They are the same reasons which in the distant ages of the past made the Athenians, thirsty for learning, listen to the apostle Paul on Mars Hill. There was a man of education who lived the religion he professed, and who desired to speak to them, as he diplomatically said, not of a new religion, but of their own "unknown God." To-day there comes into this assemblage a man likewise educated, likewise living his religion, who desires to tell us not about a new religion, but more about our religion; a man who comes to tell us, not about the "unknown God," but how better to reach out and know God. It will be with interest that we listen to what he says, and I feel sure that when Mr. Leonard is done there will be none who cannot extend to him the invitation which the Athenians extended to St. Paul, when they said, "We will hear thee again of this matter."—Correspondence.

MEMPHIS, TENN.

Rev. Arthur R. Vosburgh of Rochester, N. Y., delivered a lecture on the doctrines of Christian Science at the Lyceum last night [April 12] to a large and attentive audience. He was introduced by H. C. Williamson, who said in part,—

In looking down through the graded centuries of the past we catch with dim vision the first illuminating spark of the human mind in its infantile efforts to commune with its creator. In the dark night of universal ignorance men wandered in the forest jungles of superstition and fear until they emerged into the slavery of creed and dogma. Through long ages this slavery was accepted and borne, but eventually their shackles were broken by the hammer of liberated thought. Then was begun the great work of emancipation that has ushered mankind into the empire of spiritual and intellectual freedom. In their upward course men have been guided by the great teachers whom God has sent to illumine and point the way. To-day earnest men and women throughout the Christian world recognize and profoundly reverence such a teacher in the person of Mrs. Eddy, of whom the Encyclopedia Americana says, "The world's highest meed of praise is eventually bestowed upon those who have made the largest contribution to its spiritual good, and it is in the light of this fact that the honored place of Mrs. Eddy's name in the annals of the race is unqualifiedly assured. The prominence in public thought which she has already attained as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and the tender love which glows for her upon the altars of unnumbered hearts, find their explanation in the ministry of good which she has brought to her fellow-man."

The magnitude, substantiality, and success of her work is a marvel to mankind.—Commercial Appeal.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND.

Bicknell Young lectured in Glasgow, April 18, to an audience of about eight or nine hundred people. He was introduced by W. F. W. Wilding, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.,who said in part,—

The honor and privilege of presenting the lecturer to you to-night has been conferred on me because nineteen years of my life were spent in the study and practice of medicine, and because, when I reached the conviction that Christian Science was the only true method of healing, and identical with that practised by Jesus the Christ, I forsook all material systems for this healing Christ.

My experience during the transitional period proved conclusively to me that it was not possible to continue the two, medicine and Christian Science; we cannot serve two masters, and in Isaiah, 55, we read, "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts," saith the Lord. So in my study of Christian Science I found that the principles of its teaching were higher than those of the teaching of medicine, just as the "heavens are higher than the earth," the spiritual that the material.

I was engaged in the active practice of a profession which I really loved, and after trying every means which medicine advocated for the disease my daughter was suffering from, and failing to alleviate or check the disease by those methods, until she was brought to the verge of the grave, I was persuaded to try Christian Science for her; and although I had no faith in Christian Science, I was ready to try anything to avert her approaching death. From the first Christian Science treatment all active disease ceased—and I can now tell you, with a heart overflowing with gratitude, that my daughter is perfectly healed; from that day, more than six years ago, to this, she has never spent an hour in bed through sickness.

Several patients in my 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 I have seen many other so-called incurable diseases healed by this new-old Christ power.

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, recognizes and records as incurable. It must and does strongly attract the helpless and hopeless sufferer, and rightly so, because the fruits of its teaching are manifest in healing all manner of sickness and disease, in healing sin in one's self, 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.

It is for this practical religion that I gave up the practice of medicine, and it is in order that you may hear a true statement of its teachings, that the lecturer has traveled many thousand miles to speak to you to-night.

Correspondence.

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND

Bicknell Young lectured on Christian Science here April 25. He was introduced by Philip H. Martineau, a graduate of Cambridge University, who said in part,—

The last century has witnessed many great discoveries in science, which have astonished the world and urged it on to greater endeavor; and, at the same time with all this discovery going on in the world of commerce and science, the human mind has been making investigations and probing into questions of religion. There has been a breaking away from the old ideas. The world has been looking for a more practical Christianity, it has been longing for a clearer conception of God, a better understanding of the Bible; in short, people have been looking for a Science which would unfold and make practical in their every-day lives the omnipotence of good and the infinite Principle which governs all things. To-day there are tens of thousands who, like myself, believe we have found this truth, this Science of Christianity, in the teachings and writings of Mrs. Eddy, who is the Leader of the movement. It is to tell you something of what Christian Science is that Mr. Bicknell Young is here to-night. It may interest you, however, before I formally introduce him, it may help some one in this audience, to know what brought me to look into Christian Science. I have always been very fond of all kinds of athletics. After I left the University and settled down to the legal profession, what spare time I could get was given up to sport and games. Some years after I left Cambridge I developed varicose veins and other kindred troubles. I was advised by my doctor, and also by a leading surgeon whom I consulted, that I must either be operated on or wear elastic stockings all my life. The surgeon advised preferably the latter course, as he said I should have to be operated on in so many places and that he could not guarantee it as a cure, so I chose the elastic stockings. I wore them for some years—weary years they were too—and I had practically to give up athletics on this account. Chance brought to my notice Christian Science. A lady who was a Christian Scientist told me of it and advised me to try it. If I had not known her to be an eminently practical person, I am afraid I should only have smiled and never have tried it. Fortunately for me I did try it, with the result that I was able to give up my elastic stockings at once, and have never worn them since. This is now seven years ago. My veins have troubled troubled me again and I have been able to take up athletics where I left them off and with a renewed energy and enjoyment. I was also healed completely of tonsilitis, from which I had suffered year after year since I was a child. People have said to me, "How can you; a lawyer, believe in such a thing?" My answer is always that it is just because I am a lawyer, because I am accustomed to look carefully into things, not to accept anything without considering it, without some proof of the truth of it, that I do accept Christian Science, and that I believe it to be a practical, every-day religion, eminently suited to the needs of the present generation.

Ladies and gentlemen, there are thousands of people today to whom Christian Science has brought health and happiness, many of them from the grave, and who are only too glad of an opportunity of telling others what it has done for them. It has passed the experimental stage. It does not range under its banner dreamers and fanatics, as some think, but good, sensible, practical people, men and women who stand in the front rank of intellectual attainments, men who stand in the front rank in business, in commerce, in law and finance, men and women, in fact, with a keen sense of all the obligations of home, society, business, and civic life. Can you, having regard to the benefits I and my family have derived from Christian Science, wonder that I esteem it a privilege to come here to-night to introduce the lecturer, and to have an opportunity of expressing my gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for the unselfish and loving work she is doing for the good of humanity?

Correspondence.

GENEVA, SW TZERLAND

At the Casino de St. Pierre on Sunday afternoon, May 5, an interested audience listened to a lecture on Christian Science delivered by Mr. Bicknell Young. The speaker was introduced by Mr. Charles Vouga in the following words:—

Ladies and Gentlemen:—You are invited here to-day to hear a lecture on a subject which preoccupies the thougt of a number of people. This subject is Christian Science, or the Science of Jesus Christ. Christian Science does not pretend to bring a new truth to the world, because Truth always has existed and always will exist, but Christian Science brings to the world the application and the practical realization of the Principle of the truth practised by Christ Jesus, and each one of us to-day is capable of demonstrating and proving this Principle.

You will find everywhere to-day—in America, England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Australia, China, and in Switzerland—adherents of Christian Science who are living examples of its healing power and its salvation—even the opponents of Christian Science admit this. I am glad to testify to the healing of myself and to healing in my family, and a changed life.

The time has come when the world is obliged to recognize the mission of Christian Science and when its results must be seriously considered. In the presence of these facts which cannot be doubted. it seems necessary that each intelligent seeker for Truth must inform himself on this subject. Christian Scientists are convinced that this Science is inspired of God, and know that its teachings furnish proof of the power of God for the salvation of all those who accept its teachings and who live them.

I have the privilege of introducing to you one who is competent to present the subject of Christian Science, to which I ask your careful thought, Mr. Bicknell Young, C.S.B., member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, The Mother Church, in Boston, Mass., U.S.A.—Correspondence.

LECTURES AT OTHER PLACES

Wabash, Ind.—Bicknell Young, March 12.
Hornsea, England.—Bicknell Young, April 20.
Jenesville, Wis.—Miss Mary Brookins, April 25.
Southampton, England.—Bicknell Young, April 26.
Salt Lake City, Utah (First and Second Churches).—Clarence C. Eaton, April 28.
Paris, France.—Bicknell Young, April 30.
New Haven, Conn. (First Church).—Hon. Clarence A. Buskirk, May 2.
Klamath Falls, Ore.—Francis J. Fluno, M.D., May 4.
Bloomington, Ill.—Miss Mary Brookins, May 3.
Merrill, Ore.—Francis J. Fluno, M.D., May 4.
Cleveland, O. (First Church).—Clarence C. Eaton, May 5.
Reading, Pa.—Frank H. Leonard, May 7.
Canajoharie, N. Y.—Judge Septimus J. Hanna, May 10.