The feature of the Fourth of July observance at Paris was the banquet of the American Chamber of Commerce at the Hotel Quai d'Orsay, at which Ambassador McCormick discussed "Our National Housecleaning.
[The following letter, received by our Leader from the Earl of Dunmore, who was one of our recent visitors from England, will interest our readers who had the pleasure of meeting so many Christian Scientists from across the water.
A Friend
recently remarked to the writer that despite her earnest effort and desire she had been unable to bring her thought into accord with Christian Science.
The editor of the Herald, in his courteous rejoinder to the writer's comments on some of his references to Christian Science, evidences his belief in the thought-power in the world.
The dedication of The Mother Church of Christian Science at Boston, with its paid-up cost of two million dollars, and its tremendous outpouring of eager communicants from all over the civilized world, is an event of impressiveness and momentous significance.
The members of the Christian Science faith certainly set a better example of brotherly love and broad-mindedness then some of their critics in the old-line churches.
More than thirty thousand Christian Scientists from all over the country were in Boston Sunday when the new two-million-dollar temple was dedicated with impressive ceremonies.
From
time to time during the past six years we have warned our readers against a man who has been securing money under the false pretence that he is a Christian Scientist in temporary need of funds.
We
lose the sense of personality when describing love, and so base the behests of praise on worth akin to unworldliness, on goodness shorn of self, and on charity governed by God influencing the acts of men—even a charity which "suffereth long and is kind.
A NOTICEABLE
change has come over the religious press in general in its attitude toward Christian Science, and this change may briefly be described as a transition from unqualified condemnation to timid and partial commendation, from an attitude which regarded Christian Science as beyond the limit of Christian toleration to one which sees in it an available something, an influence for good, which the churches have neglected to their own detriment.
When I think of all the years I have enjoyed since being lifted out of consumption, that disease which people who know nothing of Christian Science look upon as a "fell monster," I cannot be thankful enough for the blessed truth which heals all our diseases.
Christian Science came to my notice about six years ago, when my mother was greatly benefited after the physicians had failed to relieve her suffering, which she had endured for fifteen years.
For more than twenty-five years I had suffered from many ills of the flesh, among them being indigestion, constipation, headaches, palpitation, and a female weakness for which for some months I was obliged to have treatment several times a week before I learned of Christian Science.
In May, 1894, I was obliged to give up my business, and our family physician, with a noted specialist in Boston, diagnosed my case as locomotor ataxia, and said it was incurable.
Clear-eyed men of vision in all the churches note the fact that the secular press of the country does not rally to the support of ecclesiastics who are defending the ancient creeds and the standards of orthodoxy against those who, in their own churches, are breaking away from them.
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