SACRAMENTO, CAL.

The Tuesday Club auditorium, which has a seating capacity of one thousand, was taxed to its utmost to accommodate the crowd which assembled to hear Virgil O. Strickler's lecture on Christian Science. The lecturer was introduced by the Rev. B. F. Bonnell, who said in part,—

Humanity through all time has been confronted with two types or conditions of thought: one, of things as they really are; the other, things as they appear to be. In every country and generation there have been a few individuals who have sought to think and live according to reality, but the great mass of humanity has been content to live according to appearances. Christian Science in its philosophy and religion comes as the exponent of pure idealism, and proves its position not by words, categories, and dogmas, but by actual demonstration. Christian Science made its appearance int the most critical period of the world's history, and it would long since have been laughed and ridiculed out of existence but for its ability to demonstrate its claim beyond a cavil or a doubt. But I remind myself just now that I must not speak on Christian Science, for two very good reasons: first, I learned a long time ago that the one chosen to introduce the speaker is not supposed to deliver the lecture; and second, that we have one with us who is fully competent to render this service.—Correspondence.

NEW HAVEN, CONN.

In the Hyperion theater a lecture on Christian Science was given by Francis J. Fluno, M.D. The introductory remarks by William Capell, first reader of the local church, were as follows:—

While Christian Scientists do not seek to force their religious convictions upon others, they are always glad to help those who honestly desire to learn the truth about Christian Science. Christians agree that Jesus Christ came to be the Saviour of the world. However, when we examine the teachings of the various Christian denominations, we find not only widely differing opinions relative to the way of obtaining salvation, but we also find different opinions as to what salvation is. Notwithstanding these differences, it is self-evident that complete salvation must include absolute and unending freedom from sin, sickness, and death.

The gospels furnish us with many illustrations of the method by which Jesus met and mastered these enemies of mankind. We also find therein statements of the Master which clearly indicate the possibility of a repetition of his wonderful works on the part of those who understand his teachings. We have met this afternoon to learn something of Christian Science, the Science which Jesus understood and demonstrated so many years ago.—New Haven Register.

TROY, N. Y.

Judge Clifford P. Smith, who lectured on Christian Science at Music hall, was introduced by William H. Dodd, first reader, as follows:—

The great need of humanity in all ages is practically the same. The fact that one is blind or halt or lame, that he is suffering from a disease which is considered incurable by the leading schools of healing in his day, that he is sick or dying, bound by sin, in poverty or in pain, or sorrowing by the bier of his beloved dead,—this does not in the slightest degree determine one's place or nation, time or language. In all history, at all times, in all places, from such distress has arisen the common cry of needy humanity. Now, Christian Science declares that Jesus heard this cry and met the sore need from which it sprang. He met it through his sanetified knowledge or understanding, and we are Christian Scientists or scientific Christians as we gain something of this understanding that Jesus possessed, and demonstrate it in meeting the world's need in some measure as he did.

Troy Times.

LOUISVILLE, KY.

Prof. Hermann S. Hering delivered a lecture at Macauley's theater on "Christian Science: The Science of Salvation," in which the doctrines of Christian Science were expounded. Professor Hering was greeted by a large audience when he was introduced by Samuel W. Greene of Louisville, who spoke as follows:—

My personal experience has been that a proper understanding of the teaching of Christian Science does not come with a rush, in a day or an hour, but by degrees as one is able to assimilate and demonstrate the practical utility of this wonderful religion. It seems to me to offer an everpresent help for every cry of the suffering one, a solution for every problem. In the light of Christian Science and its manifold demonstrations I can rejoice in the words of Jesus, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me: ... for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." For now I find around me a host of happy ones who are constantly demonstrating the fulfilment of those promises of the Son of God.

In its teaching, as I study the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," I find the loftiest program of thought and action that has been proposed to man since the ministry of Jesus. If one would follow this teaching he must in deed and in truth take up his cross daily and joyfully, and follow after the perfection enjoined in the words of the Son of God: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." It means a complete surrender to a higher and a purer thought; it means parting with many cherished traditions and beliefs, but it likewise means the finding of a perfect peace, the "pearl of great price." It means a consciousness of a closer walk with God. It means a more lovable, a more reasonable, more godlike concept of God, because it reveals a God who is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. It has meant no little in personal experience, to become aware that the God of my worship, and my creator, has not created hate, envy, malice, sickness, sin, death, and the like, and that they have no power over us; and in this knowledge I can glory in my freedom from former enslavement to these enemies of mankind.—Courier-Journal.

ROCKFORD, ILL.

At a lecture on Christian Science in the edifice of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Nelson Carveth, first reader, introduced the speaker, the Rev. William P. McKenzie, with the following remarks:—

The knowledge of salvation, as taught and demonstrated by our great Exemplar and master Metaphysician, Jesus Christ, has again been brought to light in what is known today as Christian Science. The multitudes throughout the world that are being redeemed from sin, sickness, sorrow, and death through this new-old religion, leads one to ask: May this not be the "greater works" which Jesus said should follow those who believed on him?—Rockford Republic.

SALINA, KAN.

A large and attentive audience listened to the lecture on Christian Science given in the Palace theater by the Hon. Clarence A. Buskirk, who was introduced as follows by ex-Senator J. R. Burton:—

Truth is immortal, eternal. It always has been, is now, and will ever continue to be. All of truth is all there is. Christianity is truth. It is love for God and love for man. There are more than one hundred and sixty Christian sects, each founded on the primal truth of the Christian faith. They differ in their interpretation of that truth and as to the best forms and methods of putting it into practise, but they all agree that it is love which saves mankind. They all agree that Christianity heals sin, but only one of them teaches that it will heal sickness and all the inharmony and distress of mankind. It is the latest of these sects, Christian Science, which teaches that divine Love heals sickness and sin in the same way.

This new church was founded in the latter part of the nineteenth century by the most marvelous woman in history. And this new church, claiming to teach the old truth taught by the Galilean Prophet in all its fulness, has in the short space of two decades gathered its votaries from every civilized country on the globe. Its rapid growth is the religious wonder of modern times. I am not here to expound that faith, I am not a member of that church, but we have a man with us this afternoon who is authorized to speak for it.

Correspondence.