The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-23
Mrs, Minis Of Atlanta Greeted
BY a Large Audience
Al The Bijou
QUOTES SCRIPTURES TO
PROVE HER DOCTRINE
Rufus NJ. Rhodes Introduces the Lee
turer In Felicitous Words--Prlv-
llese TO Hear Earnest
Seeker After Truth.

Mrs Livingston Minis OF Atlanta adj
dressed, at the Bijou theatre, yesterday
afternoon. possibly the largest audience
ever assembled for lecture in Birmng-
ham.
The incIemenoy of the weather no
doubt prevented many from attending
the lecture, but THE loggias were filed,
the parquet was almost filled and there
were many people In the balcony.
Mrs. Minis Is the leading exponent Of
the Christian Science faith in the south,
and her reputation as a delightful and
brilliant lecturer as well as the charm
and brilliancy of her personality is known
throughout the southern states.
She came to Birmingham upon the in
vitation of the First Church of Christ
Scientist. but her audience yesterday
was made up of every denomination in
the city.
Mrs. Minis made a deep impression
upon every one and the close and undi-
vided attention which her lecture re-
ceived indicated that its depth and
thought and her power of expression
WCiC OcAi5 ltiOiON6hi9 app tNidAtN'
During her discourse Mrs. Minis said
that she had decided to eliminate part
devoted to the New Thought" but
there were cries in the audience for her
to proceed, and at the conclusion Of her
lecture there was prolonged applause.
Made Deep Impression.
Mrs. Minis made a striking picture as
she proceeded. She is a very command
ing figure and was attred very richly in
white satin. Her hair is white and she
is an unusually beautiful woman. She
met informally many of her audience
after the lecture. Few women could
have been given a greater ovation, and
while her gracious manner was evident in
her entire lecture, it was even more re-
marked as she greeted personally scores
who went forward from the parquet and
the loggias.
Mrs. Inns was introduced by Rufus
N Rhodes.
"It is privilege of any community to
hear an address from a seeker after
truth" said Mr.. Rhodes in introducing
Mrs. Minis, and he paid beautiful tributes
to any earnest endeavor on the part of
men and women to elevate mankind
In eloquent words he referred to the
beautiful life and personality Of Mrs
Minis. He alluded to her distinguished
and honored family and to her husband,
Major Minis, whom he said had stamped
himself as power for good in his own
community. Mr.. Rhodes, with character
istic fervor described Mrs. Minis as the
representative of the highest and noblest
type of womanhood.
Mrs. Minis began her address by ex-
pressing her pleasure at seeing such
large audience despite the unkindness of
the elements. She said that a celebrated
lecturer on being asked the proper length
for a lecture replied that 1t should not
be longer than a half hour with an in
clination towards mercy
III my lecture is longer than half
hour" said Mrs. Minis, Il trust that you
will be mercful."
The Lecture.
Mrs. Minis lecture was in part as fol-
lows:
The aspiration to know, and UNDER
stand, the ways of God to men has in
spired the long search and questioning of
the centuries. The attempt to reconcile
the mystery of evil with the basis of
an all-wise, omnicient, omnlpotent and
benevolent Creator, has been the stimulus
OF vast systems of speculative thought
throughout the history of man. This theo-
retical mind has been ever the same since
the days, and before, when Socrates
talked of the immortality of the SOUL and
Plato dreamed, seemingly, Utopian
dreams of a true republic while the Alex
andrian schools teemed with magnif-
cent hypothesis.
Nineteen hundred years ago, in the
midst of the tumultuous thought of that
day, there appeared simple majestic
figure, Jesus of Nazareth. He spake as
never man spake, and he proved the bene-
fcent ways of God to man, proved this
omnipotent infinite God to be forever the
destroyer of evil and all it's varied man
ifestations 1t was as If He said, God is
not remote abstraction, nor a PARKWAY
ruler and mighty king. but a living pres
ence, eternal truth, a divine environment,
In which we live ana move and have
our being; the one source from whence
cometh every good and perfect gift"
God is the mind. intelligence, substance
that includes all, that feeds, clothes sus-
tains and governs man, redeeming him
from the materialistic law of sin and