Article September 17, 1904 Issue

Christian Science can hardly be considered outside the...

Evelyn Sylvester Knowles

Worcester (Mass.) Telegram

Christian Science can hardly be considered outside the pale of other religions, because it contains all that is good in each of them, and in addition it includes the portions of our Saviour's teachings which they do not comprise. Christian Scientists consider the commands to preach and to heal of equal importance as they are always mentioned together; this is one of the features which distinguishes this from other denominations, and it is the chief cause of its phenomenal growth.

The present, when compared with preceding ages, might be called the age of science, for first of all it demands that a system be practical; a religion, therefore, which meets this requirement and can, nay must, be taken into the minutest details of every-day life, is bound to supersede the merely theoretical. The thought of Christian Science is leavening the theology of the world, and our foremost preachers are beginning to realize that material attractions are not sufficient to insure the growth of a church; it depends, rather, upon the earnest search after spiritual life, and its application to the daily problems of human existence.

Evelyn Sylvester Knowles.
Worcester (Mass.) Telegram.

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