Wednesday evening, December 21, 1898, in the auditorium of the Young Men's Christian Association at Atlanta, Georgia, before a large and appreciative audience, Mrs. Livingston Mims delivered a most interesting lecture. Her subject was "Christian Science: Is it Christian; Is it Science?" Mrs. Mims is one of the Board of Lecturers of the Christian Science Church. Her address was well received, being delivered in a most charming and happy manner. It is here printed in full.
To tell of Christian Science in one brief hour is like trying to count the stars in illimitable space, or to number the unceasing waves of the sea—this Science of Infinite Mind—whose Principle is God.
This divine revelation of Truth has come to us, not only in the eventide of a century, but of an era—a dispensation. The same expectancy of some great change, or event, that preceded the first advent of Christianity, already beats in the hearts and minds of a weary, waiting world. Nearly nineteen hundred years ago in response to this intense longing and desire, Truth appeared, doing its mighty works, but many perceived it not, some even bitterly opposed it. Is this second coming also with its wonderful works to be equally unknown and unacknowledged? A thousand tongues of joy and praise respond, No! "The earth helps the woman," and, God-crowned, she, to-day, has brought the little book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that forever answers the questioning sphynx of human longings, desires, aspirations.
