At a meeting of the Unity Club, Jackson, Mich., held Sunday evening, February 24, 1901, the following interesting address was read by L. H. Field before an audience which filled the Unitarian Church. The address was published in full in the Jackson Morning Patriot.
When, was asked to occupy an evening in this course arranged by your club, I did not hesitate, but accepted gladly my opportunity to say something regarding that which is, to my thought, the most important truth before humanity for consideration,—Christian Science,—a much talked of, a much talked against, and a much misunderstood thing. Not that I thought myself sufficient to make this truth appear to you as important as I conceive it to be, but I determined not to think of my sufficiency or lack of it, knowing that if only partially presented it may meet the needs of some who are questioning and struggling as I was. There are others in this city who could have given a better idea of it than I, because they have been longer in this thought and given it more careful study, but the opportunity seemed to come to me, and so, in the most simple way, I shall try to talk of it,
The question will come most naturally. Are there not already enough kinds of churches? and my purpose in what I shall say to you to-night is not only to justify the existence of Christian Science, but to show the absolute need of it in the world, and how the Christian Science Church differs from other churches.
