THE LECTURES

with contributions from Frank M. Maddox, A. P. Wyman, Jesse Pickard, R. T. Goodwin

AUSTIN, TEX.

Hon. Clarence A. Buskirk lectured in Fireman Hall, for First Church of Christ, Scientist, on Jan. 21. The lecturer was introduced by the mayor of Austin, Hon. Frank M. Maddox, who spoke in part as follows:—

The Christian Scientists' belief, practice, and teaching is the truth, and by this teaching they banish all evil and heal the sick. They are the healthiest, happiest, and most contented people, because they live and teach the truth as did the meek and lowly Master. I am not a Scientist, but there is much in this truth-teaching that appeals to me; this being true to me, a layman, then how wonderfully comforting the words of the Master, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do," must be to the truth-believing, truth-practising, and truth-loving Christian Scientists.

Correspondence.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

Under the auspices of the University of Illinois Students' Society, Prof. Hermann S. Hering gave a lecture on Christian Science Sunday afternoon [Feb. 14] to a large audience in the University Chapel. Prof. A. P. Wyman, in introducing the speaker, said in part,—

The lecturer was reared in a physician's family and learned early the compassionate good of a physician's life. When, later, that profession opened itself to him through an acquaintance with Christian Science, like his father, who was a homeopathist in the early days when it was not always happiness to be one of that school, he sought in his own way that form in which he could make best his ministration of good, where not only disease and misfortune but their primary cause could be removed. Since sin brings forth death, their final remedy must be religious. The Christian Science church demands of its members, if their prayer would heal, the highest spirituality and communion with God.—The (Urbana, Ill.) Illini.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.

The large concert hall of the new Academy of Music was filled by a most attentive audience on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 14, to listen to the lecture on Christian Science given under the auspices of Third Church. The lecturer, Bliss Knapp of Boston, was introduced by Jesse Pickard of New York, who said in part,—

The time is fast approaching when the subject of Christian Science will need no introduction. This new, yet old, response to that inquiry of the ages, "What is truth?" has already awakened universal thought, and has so appealed as to find throughout all English-speaking countries and in many others audiences large in numbers and sincere in interest. This fact is explainable from the basis of its positive remedial effects. Indeed it is safe to say that the large majority of those present can bear witness thereto in the case of some acquaintance who has drunk from this cup of promise and been lifted from some hellish misery of human experience by its loving ministration. You have come here this afternoon to inquire further into the compassion of Christian Science. This message of tender sympathy and practical purport is an answer to that despairing cry ringing down the centuries, "What shall I do to be saved?"—Correspondence.

MONTGOMERY, ALA.

Mrs. Sue Harper Mims of Atlanta, Ga., spoke to a crowded house at the Grand Theater yesterday afternoon [Feb. 7], and for nearly an hour held the attention of her hearers. The discussion was along Christian Science lines and abounded in rich comparisons of an exquisite delicacy. Capt. R. T. Goodwin, in introducing Mrs. Mims, spoke in part as follows:—

Many of us present this afternoon are not members of the Christian Science church and understand its workings in but limited degree, yet we do know that Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy is accepted and received by the church as the great Discoverer and Founder of this Science, and that for forty odd years, in the face of adverse criticism, undaunted by the hurled javelins of ridicule and scorn and misrepresentation, she has held aloft the flaming torchlight of Christian Science truth. Under her instruction, the great thought and golden rule of the church, blazoned in its temples everywhere, are those words that come ringing down through nineteen centuries, "The truth shall make you free," and this truth lighted by the man of Galilee has laid its beneficent hand upon the thought of men and women, and disease and pain and fever have been dissipated. It has placed its kindly touch upon their hearts, and the coiled serpents of sin have fled affrighted. The church, as a church, is a sower in the field of humanity, scattering seeds of love from the storehouse builded by the lowly Nazarene, so that humanity in the centuries to come may reap the golden harvest of Christian perfection.

All religions have a common purpose, the protection and perfection of the human soul. As one of the great religions of the world, the Christian Science church has performed, is performing, and will continue to perform in the highest and best degree its great mission to ennoble and elevate all mankind. The world has begun to understand and appreciate the magnificent results that flow from the teachings of this great and thriving church. It weaves into the hearts and souls and lives of its members, into the very warp and woof of their being, sentiments of kindliness and brotherly love, that build for our common country the highest and most exalted type of patriotic citizenship. In the presence of such fruition the scoffer is silenced, ridicule is hushed, and misrepresentation bows its head in shame. Godspeed to this church, as to all churches, in the great work for humanity. May the fruits in the vineyard ripen early and the workers be ever there in plenty.

Montgomery Journal.

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