FORT WAYNE, IND.

The theme of the lecture of William D. McCrackan, M.A., at the Majestic Theater Sunday afternoon [Jan. 8] was "Christian Science: A Religion of Progress." The audience was a large one. The speaker was introduced by Mrs. O. N. Guldlin, one of the prominent clubwomen of the city, who spoke in part as follows,—

When I was asked to introduce the speaker this afternoon, the question came to me, "What has Christian Science meant to me?" Since it has come into my life my greatest help has been that it has enabled me to live on an entirely different basis. The next greatest help has been that it has straightened out many of my theological conceptions. Immanuel Kant says something like this, "Man has many delusions. He can only remove those delusions as he gains more knowledge, and then the delusions fall away." So it has seemed to me that one delusion after another has gone down. In the first place, I am grateful that Mrs. Eddy saw fit to call this "Christian Science." Music has its science; arithmetic has its science. We can never evade this science and arrive at correct conclusions. We can never evade the science of life. It will not permit us to do an injustice to any one else and arrive at the science of living. If in the solitude of our home life we meditate and study on these problems until we realize the divine Principle, then can we realize the solution. As we look at the world's standard of morality, the ordinary concept of man, we are liable to be deluded.

Last summer, up in Canada, I was riding along watching the trees, looking for a perfect specimen. I saw an overcrowded condition, not one tree that apparently realized the concept of a perfect tree. Yet we all know how magnificent a tree is when it reaches its full growth. And so I realized that man did not realize his spiritual concept. The licentiousness of the nation reveals the worldly concept of man, and I turned in eternal gratitude to Mrs. Eddy, since she had raised my concept to a more spiritual standard, to realize that, even if all else failed, yet that standard remained true, above the average concept which we see realized. Bearing this concept eternally in mind gives us something to work toward, and we begin to realize that God's creation is spiritual, it is harmonious, it is eternal. If we do not see this wonderful majesty of being, it is because something is wrong in us, and the greatest work of our lives is, after all, self-regeneration—that evolution which starts for perfection.

Fort Wayne Sentinel.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO.

Frank H. Leonard on Jan. 9 delivered a lecture on Christian Science. He was introduced by Atty. Benjamin Davis, who said in part,—

Perhaps no century in all the world's history has ever produced so many great women as the last century. Queen Victoria among rulers, Elizabeth Barrett Browning among poets, Julia Ward Howe and Harriet Beecher Stowe among antislavery agitators, Frances Willard among temperance advocates, and many other great women who lived and worked for the advancement of mankind and the freedom of the human race from the bonds of slavery and of intemperance.

It did not "just happen" that these great women appeared to the world in the nineteenth century. Nothing ever "just happens" in this world. There is a cause for every event, and results follow causes as day follows night. It was a part of the divine causation and divine planning that these great women should appear to help solve the great problems of the nineteenth century, and they did their work well. But in the divine planning another great woman, Mrs. Eddy, was raised up to begin a great work in the last century which bids fair to grow into a greater work in this. Following the abolition of African slavery in the last century, came a period of great material prosperity and an era of materialistic activity when men turned away from spirituality; and Mrs. Eddy's life and work came as an outcry, a protest against the materialism of her times. Her interpretation of the life and teachings of Christ Jesus has brought a great spiritual uplift into the lives of her followers, and of many who are not consciously her followers. I have seen in others some of the results of her teachings, but I cannot myself understand all of them.—Correspondence.

GREAT FALLS, MONT.

An audience, the larger part of which was composed of men, assembled at the Opera House last night [Jan. 26] to hear Clarence C. Eaton lecture on Christian Science. In introduction of the lecturer, William C. Kaufman spoke as follows:—

Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Christian Science has made it possible in this material age for Christians to heal the sick through the power of Spirit, as did Jesus nineteen hundred years ago. Christian Science has made it possible, in a degree, for a man to realize this saying of our Master: "The kingdom of heaven is within you." This kingdom of heaven is realized as we find and know that man is God's image and likeness, manifested through right thinking and right living. Christian Science shows man to be God's image and likeness, and that this Godlike image or likeness is realized only as man lives above the sensual, sinful senses and walks in the way as pointed out by Christ Jesus. We feel grateful to Mrs. Eddy for this discovery. We have never worshiped her personality; we loved and revered her for the great good which she taught and which inspired us to lift our thought above crumbling materialism.

Great Falls Leader.

HOUSTON, TEX.

Prof. Hermann S. Hering delivered a lecture on Christian Science for Second Church at Beach Auditorium Jan. 29. He was introduced by Capt. R. G. Ashe, who said in part,—

Over nineteen hundred years ago the Master, our Lord and Saviour, enjoined his followers to preach the gospel and heal the sick. Christian Scientists of today are following his injunctions,—preaching the gospel, healing the sick, and bringing comfort to the broken-hearted. With its outstretched hand of benevolence, Christian Science has led many from the midnight darkness of sin into the bright and sacred light of divine Love. Through its holy influence the manacles of sin, sickness, and disease have been broken and many victims set free. From its inexhaustible storehouse many have been lifted from penury and want to relief and plenty. It has healed the inebriate, and thereby converted many hovels of wretchedness and misery into beautiful homes where happiness and pleasure now nestle together.

Christian Science is a religion founded on the rock of Christ. It is a reenaction of the teachings of our Saviour, and its beneficence is felt in almost every land and clime. Christian Scientists have massed themselves into a great army and are engaged in a grand battle for the relief of humanity; they are united, their castle is Love, their fortress is Truth. Their wise Leader, like Moses of old, has successfully led her people from that land where sin, sickness, and disease have held them in bondage, to another and a better land, where Love holds sway and where freedom and liberty prevail. Because of her beautiful, pure, unsullied life, and her devotion to the cause of humanity, her fair name is immortalized.—Correspondence.

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MARINETTE, WIS.

An audience representative of the twin cities, which filled the Scientist church, assembled Sunday afternoon [Jan. 29] to hear the lecture by Willis F. Gross. Harry Emerson, mayor of Menominee, presided, and introduced the speaker in the following words:—

There is no question that is agitating more the civilized world of today than is Christian Science, which goes to show that the thinking people of this age are not satisfied with the religions that acknowledge sin and sickness as part of the creation of God. To us who are not students of Christian Science there are many thoughts that are difficult for us to understand, and it is only through study, investigation, the testimony of those who have been healed in Science, and the example given us by the lives of those who are endeavoring to live what they believe, that we may be brought to see the truth. This meeting, the fact that we are gathered here this afternoon to listen to a lecture on Christian Science, demonstrates that we are seeking the truth and anxious to find the correct solution for the perplexities of life.—Eagle-Star.