Editorial August 22, 1901 Issue

The Spread of Christian Science in London

Editor

An article headed as above, appears in The British Weekly, "a Journal of Social and Christian Progress" published in London, England. As a whole the article is fair and friendly in tone, although it contains some of the current misconceptions of Christian Science. While we regret these misconceptions, we nevertheless feel it to be due to the editor of this able and important periodical to express our high appreciation of the kindly spirit which evidently dictated the writing and publication of so lengthy a paper. It occupies nearly four columns of editorial space, and is a striking indication of the fact that Christian Science is indeed spreading rapidly and gaining a strong foothold in England.

We extract the following:—

The most striking proof of the advance of Christian Science in London and other large towns of the United Kingdom is to be found in the growing numbers of its authorized practitioners. The Christian Science Journal publishes each month a directory of teachers and healers, who must all be members of the Mother Church in Boston, and amenable to its discipline. A few years ago there were only three or four practitioners in Britain, now we find thirteen names for London alone. First come those of the Earl and Countees of Dunmore, and next Mr. and Mrs. Miller, so well known to the congregation which attends the Sunday services in Bryanston Street. Lady Mildred Murray, Mrs. Blanche Ward, and the majority of the leaders, live in the West End; there is one healer at Highbury, and several in South London. At Cambridge, where there is now a regular Sunday service, the new cult is represented by Mrs. Butler and by Mrs. Smith, of Sidney Sussex. Dublin has one name, that of Lady Frances Ashbourne. Six ladies are mentioned for Edinburgh. A well-known Scottish Scientist is Lady Charlotte F. Ramsay, of Alyth.

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