Article January 26, 1899 Issue

Another Good Newspaper Friend

We cheerfully publish the following friendly editorial from the Farmers' Friend and Grange Advocate of Mechanicsburg, Pa.:—

At different times during the year just closed we have given to the readers of the Farmers' Friend excerpts from the writings of Christian Scientists, so that they might have an opportunity of learning something of a faith that is now sweeping all before it, and is believed in and practised by men and women of great attainments throughout the entire country. We did this the more readily because rural and urban people have had but little opportunity to come in contact with the teachers of this faith or make the acquaintance of periodicals devoted to its exposition. Noiselessly as the bursting of the buds in springtime, costly and beautiful temples of worship make their appearance in intellectual centres, and gathered in them for worship are people of the highest culture, men and women who accept the new only after mature consideration and the most positive and convincing evidence of the excellency of the doctrine taught. To write of the great influence of Christian Science upon the world of religious thought, and the revolution it is effecting in medical practice, scientific thought, literature, business methods, and social conditions is a work of too great magnitude to be undertaken at this time. The age is eagerly discussing Christian Science and crying loudly for more light; its value to the present and future welfare of people can only be estimated when we fully know the number who, through its operations, have been relieved from dread disease, pain, error, hopelessness, and spiritual darkness. Its teachings reveal the promise of, and the way to, a new and higher order of society. That marvelous results have been wrought by Christian Scientists, no one acquainted with the facts will dispute, but as only a few leading papers, the Denver Republican, the New York Sun, the Washington News Letter, and the papers of Concord, New Hampshire, the home of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the Founder of the faith, give information concerning the wonderful things done by Christian Scientists, and because a number of our readers have written us for more light on the subject, we have concluded that the readers of the Farmers' Friend shall have opportunity to learn what Christian Scientists are doing.

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