Article December 21, 1899 Issue

The Advance of Christian Science

Mail and Express

For those who seek the truth about Christian Science and who would know its principles and teachings there is a flood of light in the lecture delivered in the Metropolitan Opera House yesterday afternoon (Sunday, December 10) by Judge W. G. Ewing of Chicago, a full report of which appears in this number of the Mail and Express. As an exposition of the doctrines of this new sect, if such it may be called, Judge Ewing's effort is profoundly interesting, and it will be recognized as an important addition to the literature of a movement which is engaging the serious attention of the religious world.

Without implying any approval of Christian Science, either as a creed or as an applied practice, we can all afford to acknowledge the sincerity and intelligence of those who profess it. They constitute a larger and growing body of pious, high-minded, honest men and women, who are animated by a pure desire to conform their lives to the beautiful example of the Master. They obey his commands as they understand them; they hold that the Divine Philosophy, properly interpreted, ministers to the body as well as the soul; they preach the gospel of cheerfulness and calm, and out of the life-story of the Nazarene they have evolved a religion which responds in the fullest measure to the spiritual needs of its believers. The tolerant spirit which pervades their teachings; the perfect unselfishness of their zeal, and their manifest desire to practise what they preach, all entitle them to the unbiased hearing which they ask of rational truth-seekers.

The growth of Christian Science in this city is a fact which it would be folly to ignore. Yesterday's meeting in the Metropolitan Opera House represented nearly a score of organized churches of that faith inside the boundaries of Greater New York — all of which have been established within little more than a dozen years — and none of these churches bears a dollar of debt or fixed expense. The character, dignity, intelligence, and generous impulse of those who accept the teachings of this new gospel entitle their cause to impartial consideration.

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