THE Christian Science church building in Bryanston Street having become too small for the rapidly increasing audience, temporary accommodation has been secured in Steinway Hall, Lower Seymour Street, for the Wednesday evening testimony meetings, the first of which was held there on November 12. Despite the increased size of the hall, it was quickly filled, and it was calculated by the attendants that one to two hundred people were unable to enter. After the opening exercises the First Reader, Mr. W. N. Miller, spoke as follows:—
"As these Wednesday evening meetings are for the public, there must be many present who know little or nothing of Christian Science, some perhaps who are hearing about it for the first time. To those I wish to explain what Christian Science is, to tell them that it is the Science of Christianity, the light of Truth that reveals God as perfect Good and man as His image and likeness. It is the religion that Jesus taught and practised. It is the Science that enabled Jesus to live an unselfish life and to perform what the world has called his miracles from an understood Principle. It is a religion to be lived, and has been adapted, through revelation, to the needs of man to-day, just as it was, through the mind that was in Christ Jesus, to those who lived two thousand years ago.
"For hundreds and thousands of years, as far back as history reaches, man, born in the flesh, has been suffering the penalties for wrong doing caused by wrong thinking. No one has really enjoyed this state of things. Many have looked forward to death as a friend to release them from it, forgetting or disregarding the statement of Paul that death is an enemy to be overcome, not a friend to be embraced. Some, regarding their environment and seeing that they manifest perpetual misrule, poverty, injustice, malice, discord of every kind, sin, sickness, and death, and believing God to be all-knowing as well as all-powerful and ever-present, have attributed this condition of affairs to Him, thereby making God a God of evil as well as a God of good. The misconception of God has always stood in the way of obtaining the right conception of God and man and of realizing the truth of Being. Christian Science, the revelation to this age, solves the whole mystery. Christian Science, which is the Science of Christianity understood and applied, shows that the wonders performed in the name of Christ were not only so performed, but were done in pursuance of the understood Principle, which is the allness of God as Good, and Good alone. As this allness of God is admitted, the understanding of the reality is obtained, and clear, definite, and unassailable conclusions are reached as to God and man and the government of the universe. Christian Science understood, proves itself, for the understanding always results in the healing of both mind and body and the destruction of sin."
