The subject of my lecture is "Christian Science, and the World's Great Need of It. But Christian Science is the Science of Being, and must include all there is of Being. There never was, and never will be a question propounded that has not its answer in Christian Science. And the world's great need is unlimited: therefore only a small part of Christian Science, and only a few of the world's great needs of it, can be expressed in any one lecture.
Looking out over Earth's vast arena, where the farce of human life continues to be played, and finding in that play nothing but a farce, nothing but unreality, finding nothing that satisfies the longing for something substantial, something abiding, something secure, something true; does it not stand to reason, that there is a something wanting; a something that the world has need of; something that although the world of sense knows nothing of it, yet human beings in some way or for some reason, find themselves in need of?
That spirit of investigation in man that can find a flaw in the solution of his being, naturally and necessarily demands a solution that will bear investigation; a solution that has no flaw; a solution that will bear the closest scrutiny, and yet no imperfection be found.
