Article June 1, 1899 Issue

Miscellany

The lecture on Christian Science by Edward A. Kimball, at the Academy of Music, suggests a retrospective view of a denomination which is unique in the annals of contemporaneous religious history, declaring, as it does, that the theology and healing of Christianity are inseparable.

Mr. Kimball is an official lecturer of the denomination, and comes here under the auspices of the local Church of Christ, Scientist, which holds services at Parson's Business College. His purpose is not to proselyte, but rather to convey to his hearers some conception of what Christian Science is, what it is not, and what it has accomplished.

It has been said that no prophet ever came to earth without finding that the first thing across his path was a stone wall—a wall whose mason was prejudice, the half-witted child of ignorance. Christian Science has found that this rule has no exception. Discovered by a New England woman, Mary Baker Eddy, it was by her presented to the world in the text-book of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." This book has been cannonaded by the press, denounced by the pulpit, and derided by the medical fraternity, yet it has passed its one hundred and sixty-fifth edition, and is the text-book of a denomination numbering over a million and a half of adherents. In its ranks are to be found ministers, doctors, and lawyers.

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