Article September 11, 1902 Issue

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Canton (Ill.) Register

Whether right or wrong in their peculiar views—which seem absurd to many—the Christian Scientists in some things set religionists in general and the world at large a commendable example.

Reference is had especially to their refusal to be irritated by the shafts of ridicule which a multitude of magazine and newspaper writers have showered upon them, and their habitual strict avoidance of all acrimony in replying to attacks upon their doctrines.

The calm, concise, and courteous letters which two leading Christian Scientists of Illinois addressed quite lately to the Canton Register, in answer to some criticisms by a correspondent, seem to be not in the least exceptional in tone. In the columns of the New York Sun prominent eastern leaders among Mrs. Eddy's co-believers, are conducting with equal evenness of temper their side of a discussion that would have radiated heat enough to justify the turning in of half-a-dozen fire alarms if it involved the tenets of some other church.

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