The Lectures

Introductions to Lectures

with contributions from Frederic Johnston, Janet Smith Symms, John W. Branch

Florence, Italy (Second Church).

Lecturer: Miss Margaret Murney Glenn; introduced by Frederic Johnston, who said:—

A Christian Science lecture is always a joyous occasion, inasmuch as it makes manifest infinite God, infinite good. Since God is infinite good, as Christian Science teaches, He is universal and impartial, knowing no map or boundary line and no nationalities. He is ever present for all to know who are willing to dispense with false doctrines. In God's kingdom of universal impartiality there is no race but the children of the infinite Father-Mother God, and no tongue but the language of infinite Love. Through the spiritual perception of Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and the author of its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," we are to-day enabled to make practical the words and works of our Way-shower, Christ Jesus.

Liverpool, England (Second Church).

Lecturer: Dr. John M. Tutt; introduced by Miss Janet Smith Symms, who said:—

It is thirty years since this religion of joy first entered my home—when a stranger told my mother, who was a chronic invalid, that he had a book called "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, which healed the sick. She asked for the loan of it, and, after carefully reading for one month, she was permanently healed of heart disease, chronic bronchitis, and lameness, the result of an operation performed some years previously. After these healings she sent to Boston, Massachusetts, for a copy of Science and Health for herself, and very soon conditions began to change in our home. Financial distress was quickly overcome, hereditary diseases were healed, sorrow was turned into joy—permanent joy. My heart goes out in gratitude to Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science; for she was courageous and loving enough to toil alone with God, in the front of the battle, in order to give this religion of joy to the whole world.

Elmhurst, New York (First Church).

Lecturer: Charles I. Ohrenstein; introduced by John W. Branch, who said:—

The fact that Christian Science is a practical and a demonstrable religion goes far toward explaining its remarkable growth during the past sixty years. Its record of healing ministry and spiritual regeneration during that time stands without parallel in the history of religious movements. To-day, not only individuals but nations are feeling its influence. Regardless of human opinions, doctrines, and theories, that which may be classified as the truth has always been true, and throughout all ages to come will continue to be true, whether or not men believe it or understand it. In Christian Science we find again revealed the eternal truth taught by Christ Jesus, that the power of God, good, Spirit, is infinite, and that man as God's image and likeness reflects and expresses that power. Christian Science also makes clear the method by which the divine All-power may be utilized in human experience to-day, casting out every type of discord, just as Jesus did throughout his ministry. The events of the past few years have awakened the world more than ever to the need for a practical Christianity, a rational religion.

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