On the evening of June 11, 1898, at the Auditorium in Chicago, Hon. W G. Ewing, Judge of the Superior Court, introducing Edward A. Kimball, an official lecturer of Christian Science, spoke as follows:—
More than forty years ago Mary Baker Eddy, a splendid, God-loving woman, burdened with the ills and agonies of mortal beliefs, sought surcease from suffering, doubt, and darkness in profound study of God's philosophy—the "science of being" as—revealed in the Bible, and after years of consecrated devotion to her mighty work she gave to the world, not a new religion, but a clearer apprehension and comprehension of the old one, the religion of Jesus, the Christ; gave a key that reveals the "mystery of godliness" and unlocks the treasure-house of infinite love and of life that shall not taste death; gave a boon the richness whereof earth hath not known since the God-man preached the gospel, healed the sick, made the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, and the dead to spring into newness of life.
And this most marvelous woman of all the centuries is, and professes to be, only an humble disciple of that same loving Christ, doing his bidding and demonstrating in a thousand instances the verity of the words of Jesus to the people whom he taught. "The works I do shall ye do also."
