The semi-annual lecture under the auspices of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, was delivered by the of Chicago, in Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass., Thursday evening, October 5, 1899. Tremont Temple, which seats about three thousand people, was on this occasion filled to its utmost capacity by an earnest and intelligent audience, and between two and three hundred people were standing.
Judge Ewing was greeted with hearty applause, and his address was as follows:—
There could be no clearer demonstration of the intelligence and cosmopolitan thought of this community than this magnificent assemblage of men and women, of all phases of religious belief, intent upon a candid investigation of the intellectual, Scriptural, and scientific equipoise of Christian Science. This meeting is an omen of your profound interest in all questions touching the active relationship of the creature to the Creator, and man's present and eternal welfare. I fully appreciate the courtesy of your presence and shall present to you my views upon the subject of Christian Science, with the earnestness of my convictions, I trust, but at the same time with such due regard for your rights of opinion as will lead us all, as members of a common brotherhood, with one origin and one destiny, to reason together about the things of eternity, and with the simplicity and heroism of truth, to "hold fast that which is good," although we stand alone, amid the dismantled beliefs of our fathers.
