Article July 13, 1899 Issue

An Interesting Editorial

Pittsburg Dispatch

From the Pittsburg Dispatch, a leading daily newspaper of that city, we republish the following interesting and candid editorial comment:—

The growth of the number of professors of Christian Science, with the spread of the peculiar doctrines known by that name, is just now attracting a great deal of attention alike in this country and abroad. It is well known that there has been much opposition to the new teachings, both among the ministers of some of the churches and generally among the medical fraternity; but the fact is pointed to, none the less, that the cult is spreading rapidly. It is claimed that Christian Science, as it is now known, was only formulated within the past quarter of a century, and hardly taught until about ten or fifteen years ago. The Scientists claim a professed following to-day of over a million people in the United States. They have a flourishing congregation in Pittsburg. A good deal of local interest attaches to the announcement of a free public lecture, to be delivered at the Carnegie Hall here to-morrow evening, by Mr. Carol Norton, on "Christian Science: its Religion, Therapeutics, and Philosophy." Mr. Norton is a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church of Christian Science, Boston, and the local believer expect his discourse will correct what they claim to be popular misconceptions of the subject.

With a view to explaining some of the principles of the Science and meeting a few of the more radical objections, one of the most earnest and intelligent Christian Scientists of Pittsburg yesterday prepared the following brief statement for a Dispatch reporter, setting forth a few of the points upon which it was conceived the public will gradually become better informed.

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