The Nenana daily news., 1920-07-20
SCIENCE LECTURE
 ENJOYED BY MANY

privileged to enjoy was delivered at the Coliseum theater last evening by William W. Porter, C. s. B., of New York city, member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. The first lecture of the kind was deliv- cred in Nenana a year ago.
 The Coliseum was we'll filled when the lecture started, the audience in- cluding an unusually large number of men, and the address was listened to attentively throughout.
 The lecturer was introduced by Guy B. Erwin, first reader, of Fair banks, who said:
 Friends, we are met this evening to hear lecture on Christian Sci ence. The name Christian Science is dear to all Christian Scientists because it has taught them, as nothing else has, not only that they should follow in the footsteps of the ! Master, living as he lived and doing his works, but it has also taught | them how to do this.
 It has revealed to them the vital fact that the Christianity of Christ ] is not mere matter of blind faith in distant and unknown God, but that it is an exact Science with a fixed Divine Principle and rules for 1 its demonstration, that God may be here and now understood, and that i in proportion to our understanding of Him sin, disease and death will disappear out of human experience. Christian Science is a revival of primitive Christianity, the kind Jesus taught, a religion of love, casting out sin and healing the sick. 1 In fifty years it has encompassed ! the earth with the gospel of saliva tion from sin, sickness and death and has brought to us the evan gelical message: Fear not: for be- hold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be for all people," ....
 Your presence here this evening 1 is an indication that you are seek CTS after Truth, and this lecture has been provided for you that you may learn something of our faith from one qualified to speak on the sub- ject.
 This lecture is given by Nenana Society under the auspices of Fair banks Christian Science Society, and have been invited by your board of trustees to preside, and I have great pleasure in introducing to you MT. William w. Porter, c. S. B., of New York City, a member of the ] Board of Lectureship of The Mother 1 Church, The First Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.
 MT. Porter spoke as follows:
 Natural Development.
 l The demonstration of Christian Science in the healing of the sick and the reconstruction of human thought on lines of right activity is today an accomplished and acknowl- edged fact. Thinking men and women are asking with growing in- terest, Why is it that Christian Science has gained it's present stage of demonstration and development during the comparatively short peri cd of fifty-four years? It is evi- dent, in this connection, that if the existing systems of religion and medicine had been adquate to meet the needs and to satisfy the desires of mankind, no other system would ever have been necessary or even 
 possible.
 Vanishing Theories.
 i It is recorded in the book of Genesis that at certain time the people of the world decided that they would perpetuate their material sense or material name by building a tower the top of which would reach unto the heavens. The pur- pose of the builders was to com memorate and perpetuate the majes- ty and stability of matter or the accomplishments of material man. According to the Scripture mar rative the building of this tower seemed to proceed tremendously for a time. Then, owing to the great number of people engaged upon the