The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-23

Mir. Bicknell Young, c. s. B., member l of the board of lectureship of the First Church of Christian Scientist, Boston, will deliver a lecture at o'clock this after noon at the Jefferson. The public is in- vited.
 MT. Bicknell is pupil of Mrs. Eddy,
 the founder of Christian Science, and is | a graduate of the Metaphysical college of | Boston.
 A large audience will no doubt hear the Speaker.
 The First Church of Christian Science in this city is constantly increasing In
 membership and the services are well at tended
 The Christian Science denomination is said to be growing everywhere as the re- suit of definite, demonstrable, mental, l moral aand physical benefits accruing to those who come to it for help. Prof. Will liam D. McCracken says in part: ''The bond of love and gratitude between Mrs. Eddy and the multitudes who have been
 healed, reformed and comforted by her spiritual interpretation of the Scriptures,
 grows more secure and real as time goes
 on."
 Expressing views on the subject Clara Barton says:
 While have not studied deeply enough the great religion founded by Mrs. Eddy ,, to consider myself a Christian Scientist" said Miss Barton, T can say that look upon Christian Science. as I understand it, as the most ideally beautiful vet the
 most practical and comforting of beliefs.
 It is doing more in the world today, and
 will continue to as more people become
 cognizant of the beauty of it's teachings,
 than any other one influence for good.
 Mrs. Eddy should have the respect adm-
 ration and love of the whole nation, for
 she Is it's greatest woman. Her teach
 ings spread love and good will among
 men, and a Christian Scientist cannot be
 a Christian Scientist unless he has elim-
 mated greed and selfishness from his
 nature"
 Asked if she had read Science and
 Health, Miss Barton said that she had,
 and was much eomforted by its teachings.
 Love" she said, 'permeates all the
 teachings of this great woman-so great,
 I believe, that at this perspective we can
 scarcely realize how great-and looking
 into her life history we sec nothing bur
 self-sacrifce and selfshness Never has
 Mrs. Eddy tried to bring her personality
 before the public. She has, on the other
 hand. isolated herself from the world, and
 her only motive in doing so, I firmly oe-
 leve, has been in order to let her teach
 ings, instead of herself, reach the people.
 She has never exploited herself, but so
 profoundly has she beea interested in
 bringing a great, joyous, healing and com
 forting religion to a people that she made directly for that object, regardless of what criticism came to her in so doing. How beautifully she has managed her own unfortunate trials! Without malice, always with a kindness and charity that is almost beyond human comprehension, has this woman fought antagonism, and that only with love. And l say no one familiar with her life and her teachings can help but see the marvellous con sistency and beauty of what sne has given to the world in Christian Science. The Christian Scientists l have met all im-
 press me with that same spirit Of un- selfishness that is characteristic of Mrs.
 Eddy. They are an intelligent, thinking people, and they impress me that their be- lief comes after careful and scientific in- vestigation and conviction, rather than
 from hysterical evangelism"
 Another writer says of Mrs. Eddy:
 There is one disting ulshing feature about the life and work of Mrs. Eddy
 which her critics fail to appreciate, and that is that she has not labored for the i rewards or the good opinions of men, but for their welfare and for the approval or God. Other writers may have striven for fame and fortune, but these have not been her ambition. Had she been inhu- enced or actuated in her purpose by love of the worlds applause or fear of it's ad- verse judgment, or had she conformed her writings to the prevailing methods of thought and reasoning, she might have been spared much cruel persecution; i, but the divine bow of promise in Christian Science would not have spanned the heavens of human consciousness as it Is
 npw doing. In supreme loyalty to truth as revealed to her, she committed her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" to the providence of God,