Early
in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, press, pulpit, and layman became conscious of a new factor in religious thought and life, but few expected that before the close of the century they would see a large and flourish ing denomination of earnest Christian people grow from what seemed such an intangible beginning; but the growth of Christian Science has been as rapid as its history has been simple, and its achievement as great as its purpose is noble.
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date is graven on the tablets of my memory by reason of certain happenings, among others, of painless surgery under the superadded terrors of anaesthetics.
Editor
with contributions from Miller, Victoria Murray, Mary Baker Eddy, Harworth-Booth
The following cablegrams have been received by our Leader and Mother from Great Britain relative to Judge Ewing's lectures delivered there last month:—