The Lectures

with contributions from Austin E. Page, Marquis of Lothian

Introductions to Lectures

Concord, New Hampshire (First Church).

Lecturer: Charles V. Winn; introduced by Austin E. Page, who said:—

The Christian Science message of redemption came to me while I was serving overseas with the American Expeditionary Forces. At a time when I was suffering great physical and mental distress, it was brought to my attention by a comrade, who had been a Christian Scientist for many years. On his recommendation, I visited a practitioner, who was one of the War Relief Workers sent to France under the auspices of The Mother Church. I left his office with new hope and courage. Not only did I receive an almost immediate physical healing, but I was so uplifted mentally that I had an entirely new outlook on life and its possibilities, and several old and ugly habits of thought fell away from me, never to return. This uplifting experience was so deep and joyous that my greatest desire was to share it with all my friends and comrades in the service, and it is this same desire which actuates the members of a Christian Science church when they lay plans for a lecture, such as we shall hear tonight.

Norwich, Norfolk, England (First Church).

Lecturer: Rev. Irving C. Tomlinson; introduced by the Marquis of Lothian, who said:—

The real significance of Christian Science is not that it shows Christians once more how to heal the sick, though that is important enough, but that it points the road to that complete salvation for which mankind is searching passionately amid the convulsions of the modern world. For it declares that the essential foundation of Christ Jesus' teaching was that the real universe in which we live is a spiritually mental state, and not an objective material system outside of ourselves; that the human mind is a false state of consciousness which is the result of accepting the mesmeric temptations of the carnal mind; and that all evil and imperfection will disappear and the perfect kingdom of Spirit will appear, in proportion as we come to know God, and understand thereby how to overcome scientifically the false beliefs which now hide good from our experience. It is this metaphysical aspect of Christian Science which makes it by far the most significant, far-reaching, and important movement in the world today.

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