Article April 20, 1899 Issue

Miscellany

The orthodox churches of Geneva met in union service Sunday night, and imported a learned speaker to preach against Christian Science. The same week a committee of these same churches, after a careful and prayerful canvas of the situations personal, political, and moral, chose the representative Scientist of the town and urged him to lead our good people in the coming election as the only available candidate for mayor. There are enough funny aspects in the above to make one dizzy. One "Christian" church hunting for motes in the off eye of another "Christian" church, whose chief offense is a too-literal acceptance of Christ's words! But selecting for a leader a young man who loves everybody and whom everybody loves because he lives his faith among us sinners. Judged by its fruits of memberships—not only by this young man, but so far as I am acquainted, by the whole membership—the Scientist Tree has surely the best average in Geneva, for raising intelligence, character, life! Then think of the intellectual impertinence of one out of some two hundred and seventy sects, preaching "at" another band of truth-seekers! And so late in the century! In a land of penny papers! In 1899! I am not a Christian Scientist but I love a joke that has as many turns as a kaleidoscope.

The Patrol, Geneva, Ill.

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