Article September 4, 1902 Issue

Commendatory Criticism

L. H. Jones

Lexington (Ky.) Herald

Editor of The Herald.

I have just finished reading an article by an Episcopalian minister, Rev. Kenneth Mackenzie, on Christian Science, and I cannot refrain from seeking this means of expressing publicly my appreciation of the manifest Christian spirit which pervades his entire treatment of the subject. His testimony regarding what he knows personally of Christian Science healings, and of its influence on the lives of those who have accepted it, is most remarkable indeed. coming as it does from a conscientious and scholarly gentleman who conceives it to be his duty to warn the public against Christian Science. I here quote from his article in his own language, to wit : —

"The religious assumptions of Christian Science are further set forth in that their houses of meeting are called churches. As Mrs. Eddy herself is styled 'Our Mother,' so the edifice over which she presides is the 'Mother Church.' That this Mother Church is justly conceded to be the most beautiful building in New England, costing over $220,000, and that other equally pretentious erections are being raised in the principal cities of our land, is satisfactory evidence to thinkers that Christian Science is not an ephemeral fad.

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