DUBLIN, IRELAND.

Bicknell Young lectured for First Church of Christ, Scientist, on Tuesday evening, Feb. 28, in Rathmines Town Hall. He was introduced by Major Fisher, army service corps, who said:—

The stupendous importance of the subject of the lecture to which we are to have the pleasure of listening this evening merits the earnest attention, not only of every person in this room, but of every thinking man and woman the world over. I use the word "stupendous" advisedly, for how else can one fitly describe a religion which claims that the correct understanding and application of its teachings will eventually eradicate the troubles to which humanity is now in bondage. In proof of its statements, hundreds of thousands of people in every quarter of the globe are joyfully testifying to the spiritual and physical regeneration which they have already experienced as the result of Christian Science.

I myself am a living example of the power of Christian Science to heal. After having been twice invalided by a military board of doctors, once from South Africa after the war, and once subsequently from Ceylon, where I had gone to escape the cold of an English winter, I was healed of threatening consumption by a Christian Science practitioner here in this city of Dublin. That took place seven years ago, and since that date I have never been laid up for a single hour, though I have soldiered for nearly four years in the British Isles and three years in Hong Kong. I have never had recourse to a single drug or stimulant, and every ailment which has presented itself has been completely overcome by Christian Science. I have seen a severe attack of malarial fever entirely healed in an incredibly short space of time, a result which could not be produced by any other curative agency in the world.

In order to understand, however, how these things are possible, it is absolutely necessary to understand the basis on which Christian Science rests. A little while ago a man who is well known as a very intellectual man and a powerful public speaker, after condemning Christian Science as a bundle of hopeless contradictions, asked me how I could account for the fact that so few European statesmen had embraced Christian Science, if its claims were justified. "Well," I said, "let us begin at home. Have you ever read its text-book, Science and Health, by Mrs. Eddy?" "No," he replied, "I have never had time." "Now," said I, "you have answered your own question; that is why public statesmen are so slow to embrace Christian Science—they have never allowed themselves the time to take the first step, and read, let alone study its text-book." Now is this fair play or common sense? People of this stamp condemn Christian Science on evidence which they would not accept as reliable on any other subject in the world, and yet imagine that their opinions with regard to it are entitled to respect.

Correspondence.

MACON, GA.

On March 5 Bliss Knapp gave a lecture on Christian Science. He was introduced by Mrs. Sue H. Mims of Atlanta, Ga., who said in part,—

Phillips Brooks once uttered this truism, "All great truths are very simple," and St. Paul gave the warning that we should not lose the simplicity that is in Christ. May it not be that creeds and dogmas and speculative theories have in these preceding centuries lost sight of that simplicity and the healing and spiritualizing power that accompanies it? The aim of Mrs. Eddy and Christian Science is to revive that simplicity and the power to all Christians. Jesus so clearly defined and illustrated this truth of being that it would seem strange it could longer be hidden from the eyes of men.

What is that simplicity and power? Simply the revelation and utilization of Spirit, the ever-present and omnipotent God, to alleviate and destroy all human ills—sin, disease, and death. Jesus said simply, "Trust in God," and with the spoken word of God he demonstrated this power of Spirit to overcome all human discord, and said to his disciples: "He that believeth in [understands] me, the works that I do shall he do also." It therefore would seem as abnormal for a Christian to ignore this ever-present power of God to heal and save mankind, as it would be for us today to ignore the uses of electricity, which, though not a new factor, has been until late years an unused force in the world.

Humanity is being largely aroused to see that Mind is causation, and that not by physical laws or methods are we to be saved. To know God, and Jesus Christ, whom He hath sent, is eternal life; and that knowledge which saves may be had now and here and forever, and be efficacious in our human affairs. It is not matter, but thought, that is to be corrected. The germs of disease are in thought—not in material microbes, but in fear and false mental pictures of disease, and must be destroyed by the true thought of the divine government of Mind, the "Mind of Christ" which we are enjoined to have by grasping, as far as we may, the great declaration that "in him [God] we live, and move, and have our being;" that is, in the divine Mind, or divine consciousness, of the infinite presence and power of Love, "in whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning," from whom cometh every good and perfect gift.

Jesus clearly defined in prophetic vision Mrs. Eddy's great work of restoration when he said: "The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened." It is impossible for the seeing eye and the open mind not to recognize how marvelously Mrs. Eddy's teachings are changing human thought in every department of life—science theology, and medicine. This divine process will go on until the whole of mortal thought is changed and the reign of Spirit and the spiritual is established, and the earth reflects the dominion of Love as it is in heaven. Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," and Mrs. Eddy says that in the truth of being, "eternal harmony, perpetuity, and perfection, constitute the phenomena of being, governed by the immutable and eternal laws of God" (No and Yes, p. 10). To contemplate this unseen verity of being, let it dwell in consciousness until we awake out of the dream of materialism into the divine likeness or spiritual consciousness of being. This is our work out of the flesh into Mind.—Correspondence.