Article May 6, 1905 Issue

Among the Churches

with contributions from J. E. Sedman

Christian Science is spreading in Manchester. The movement initiated by Lady Victoria Murray, which culminated in the opening of a handsome building in Victoria Park in May last, is month by month gaining fresh adherents from the cultured classes of the city. Two new wings are shortly to be opened, one to be used as a school-room and the other as a reading room. Two services are held each Sunday, and an "experience" meeting every Wednesday evening, at which some remarkable results of Christian Science treatment are related week after week.

A congregation of some seventy or eighty well-dressed people, chiefly ladies, assembled last night in spite of the boisterous climatic conditions. A simple but impressive service of an hour's duration, conducted by Lady Victoria Murray, was noteworthy by reason of the stories of cures advanced. The first lady to rise related how her married sister in New York adopted a little crippled foundling, who was born blind. The doctors said she would never see or walk, but coming under the influence of Christian Science doctrines, the child could now see quite plainly and run about like other children.

A self-confessed business woman followed. Where there had previously been discord, she said, now good-will and peace prevailed. Then came grateful parents, who told how children had been cured, one of hemorrhage and another of scarlet fever, without the aid of material agencies. A tall lady in black, wearing glasses, who for glandular swellings had taken tonics and strengthening medicines and mineral waters all to no purpose, attributed the disappearance of this disaffection to the simple treatment they had met there to extol; while an elderly man in front rose to say that it had changed his whole life, adding that "joy was the keystone of Christian Science teaching."

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