Editorial July 17, 1902 Issue

The Smaller Churches

Those who have worked in the smaller churches will recognize the fact that the work there differs much from that of large churches in the great cities.

In both cases, to be sure, the problem is solved, the growth established through the overcoming of the admitted errors of mortal mind, errors which by common consent have come to be regarded as insurmountable. The misapprehended acceptance of calamities, masked in a garb of saintly resignation to the supposed "will of God," must be seen to be self-inflicted slavery, and the true God proclaimed and demonstrated, the God who is Love, Life, Principle,—the God who has no opposite, who liberates, never manacles.

Despite the assertion "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them," mortal mind is influenced by its own methods and impressions, and the belief of the majority in the power of numbers is a potent factor in all conquests thereof. The congregations of our large churches numbering hundreds of members, gathering from all quarters of the city with a promptness and cheerfulness and enthusiasm which characterize Christian Science congregations, necessarily awake an interest and at least force the admission that some vital impulse must be actuating this concourse of energetic, joyful Christians. Here, in the large church, is the united action of many, and numbers do count.

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