The columns of our newspapers are full of the decline in church-going, but though many reasons are assigned for this, not one of them, I believe, gets down to the root of the matter.
Whether or not the impetus has come from Christian Science, the fact is undeniable that along with an increase of materialistic opinion and counteracting it, there has been a remarkable development of religion on the purely spiritual side.
A review of an attack on Christian Science contains the following statement: "To trace the belief in malicious animal magnetism to its source is to trace it to Mrs.
There are perhaps no people on earth today who believe more absolutely in the divinity of Christ Jesus and that he was and is the Son of God, than do Christian Scientists.
Our esteemed contemporary, The Christian Science Monitor, celebrated yesterday the second anniversary of its birth with a very creditable and attractive issue of 96 pages.
After
a heavy fall of snow, which in turn was succeeded by a keen frost, I was much interested in watching the efforts of the men who had the work of removing the snow from the roads and footpaths.
While
conversing with one on whom the light of Christian Science was just dawning, the remark was made that in Christian Science devils, as referred to in the Scriptures, are regarded as evils.
In
starting out on the road to sell a line of merchandise, I should rather be possessed of my present knowledge and limited understanding of Christian Science, travel in a territory where the house I represent, the goods I sell, and myself are all unknown, than to have all the advantages in this respect without a knowledge of the power and availability of Christian Science to satisfy my needs, here and now.
The
writer, who was at the time the only Christian Scientist in the small country place where she had just then removed to live, received several visits from a local clergyman, a very highly esteemed and able man.
