BERLIN, N. H.

Tuesday night [Nov. 14] a large and representative audience of Berlin citizens was privileged to hear a most interesting lecture on a live topic of the day. The lecture, under the auspices of the local Christian Scientists, was given in the Gem Theater, and the address was by Frank H. Leonard. The speaker was introduced by Principal Fred S. Libby of the Berlin high school as follows:

Nearly two thousand years ago the shepherds and wise men came to Bethlehem to worship the child so humbly born there. This child grew in wisdom and brought to the world not a new God, but a new interpretation, a new conception of the God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. At first his interpretation of God and God's teachings was not generally accepted. No great progressive movement has ever been inaugurated without opposition, and opposition always strengthens the truth; so Christ's doctrine survived the opposition of ignorance and superstition, and lived to revolutionize the world's civilization. Not even yet, however, has the human mind with its varying degrees of spirituality been able fully to agree upon the interpretation of Christ's teachings; hence the great number of different religious beliefs and creeds. Each new belief has established itself only after strenuous opposition and criticism by the existing order of things, and each form of religion exists today because it has something in it of good, something of truth that has benefited the world.

Religious teachings, like all others, actively exist only so long as humanity feels that it is being benefited by them. When the old fails to satisfy, or fails to meet human conditions, then the new appears. About thirty-six years ago a woman, Mrs. Eddy, intelligent and more than ordinarily developed spiritually, gave to the world in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" a new interpretation of Christ's teachings, the most wonderful perhaps of modern times. Her interpretation, like its predecessors, has met with determined opposition and criticism, and because of ignorance of its real teachings it has suffered from great misrepresentation. However, it still lives and thrives; and because it lives it gives evidence that it deserves to live.

Perhaps many of you, like myself, are not followers of this new teaching, but whatever our opinion of the teacher, whatever our opinion of her teachings, if we are intelligent and have followed in the least degree the great progress and results of her teachings, we must admit that Christian Science has brought happiness, hope, and health to thousands upon thousands the world over; that it has made them better Christians and better citizens; that by its works if has proven itself worthy of an abiding place in human life and human civilization.—Berlin Reporter.

WINTHROP CENTER, MASS.

A lecture on Christian Science, under the auspices of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, was delivered by Prof. Hermann S. Hering, on the evening of Nov. 14 in Knights of Columbus Hall, Winthrop Center, Mass., a good number being present. Professor Hering was introduced by Lewis A. Wallon, a prominent citizen of Winthrop, who spoke as follows:—

Many here present must have noticed for a number of years, a group of our townsmen and women, a company growing continually and rapidly larger, going every Sunday and each Wednesday evening to Boston. Observation of these people showed them to be a happy company who seemed to live in an atmosphere of good cheer and contentment. We have even noticed that some of them who had formerly shown signs of mental distress and sorrow, discontent and unhappiness, and some who had been the subjects of physical suffering, were relieved of the former and healed of the latter. We wondered, and inquired where they went and what for, and what it was that wrought the changes which in some instances seemed to be a transformation. We were told that it was due to Christian Science, said to be the greatest movement of the age.

We are to hear something about Christian Science this evening from one whose personal experience, whose many years of deep and thorough study of the matter, and whose long and close association with that noble and good woman, Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, eminently fit him to treat the subject.

Correspondence.

SANTA ANA, CAL.

A lecture on Christian Science by Bliss Knapp was delivered Nov. 14. He was introduced by Dr. C. O. Fletcher of this city, who spoke as follows:—

Christian Science is a subject that is attracting the attention of the whole world. It is a religion simple and pure; it comes to us open-handed with a message of love and truth, the same truth that Jesus taught and demonstrated to the world centuries ago. It comes, as the Scriptures say, "with healing in his wings." It is the same truth of which Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." It brings surcease from sorrow and suffering, and gives to us instead joy and peace and happiness. An unfoldment of this truth in the consciousness of men heals sickness and sin today as it did in Jesus' time.

After seventeen years of the study and practice of medicine and surgery, I have learned from the earnest study and application of the truth as taught in the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, that it is more potent to heal than any other agency. It has proven efficient in every instance where it has been honestly applied. My family and myself have been healed by Christian Science of many afflictions, both acute and chronic, after materia medica's complete failure. Christian Science is the religion of love. It teaches us how to love our neighbors as ourselves. It also teaches us how to love our enemies, and that is one of its greatest benefactions.—Evening Blade.

PARIS, TEX.

Willis F. Gross lectured in the High School auditorium Nov. 17 on the subject of Christian Science. He was introduced by W. B. Connor, who said in part,—

Jesus once said to his followers, "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth." I say to you, my friends, that this "Spirit of truth," as Christian Science, is come now, and that it is lifting humanity into newness of life, changing its doubts into certainty, its sickness into health, and its sorrow into joy. We have but to look about us, and dismiss our preconceived opinions, to see that never since the days when Jesus of Nazareth, the great Wayshower, walked the rugged pathways of earth, has there been exerted such an influence for good as is being exerted today; and to see further that this influence is the power of Truth over error, and of Love over hate and fear, as taught by Christian Science and as practised daily by its followers.

No directing hand other than the one God—omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent good—could have been the guide of Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, who was pure enough to perceive so sublime a truth, who was good enough to live it in the face of a scoffing world, and who was loving enough to pass it on to her fellow men through her incomparable book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

This book, which is the text-book of Christian Science, must be true, because through the study of it a grateful people are learning to put into practice more perfectly the great command, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first great commandment. And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," and in doing this they are being led into lives of greater usefulness, nobility, unselfishness, Christlikeness. It must be true, because through the study of it many have been healed of wrong thoughts, of evil habits, and of hopeless disease, and many more are gaining such an understanding of God as Life, Truth, and Love as to be able to demonstrate, not only for themselves, but for others as well, the present possibility of that promise of the Master, "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."—Correspondence.