Article December 11, 1902 Issue

The Naturalness of Truth's Growth

Severin E. Simonsen

New Haven Register

THE rapid spread and marvelous growth of the Christian Science movement is attracting the attention of thoughtful and intelligent people everywhere.

To those who are not conversant with Christian Science it must, indeed, appear strange that large and flourishing churches of the denomination are springing up all over the land. To the Christian Scientist this is not surprising, but purely natural. He knows from experience that the moment a person is healed in Christian Science he becomes a new man—new physically, morally, intellectually, and spiritually. He knows, too, that the Bible will be opened to that man, as it has never been unfolded to him before.

Of course, when the people see this great transformation that has taken place in those healed through Science, who in so many instances have been pronounced incurable and doomed to a life of suffering and invalidism by leading physicians, they naturally become interested in that system of religion which heals the sick as well as reforms the sinner, and they tell the story to others; they investigate, and they find, as we all have found, that here is a religion that fully satisfies all the wants of man, and because it does this it naturally attracts the multitudes just the same as in the time of Jesus and his apostles. For people who are suffering to-day will, as in the time of Jesus Christ, press through the multitude of criticising Scribes and Pharisees in order that they may touch the hem of the garment of Truth.

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