Article February 9, 1907 Issue

The man who stood and thanked a kindly Providence...

Reading (Pa.) Herald

The man who stood and thanked a kindly Providence for the raging of his enemies was a good deal of a philosopher. Christian Science has much to be thankful for, and most especially for the mad way in which it has been attacked of late. Not of very late, but of moderately late. That is to say, during the last fortnight or so the attacks have been wonderfully mute. Six weeks ago they were thunderous, but they have died away like the reverberating echoes of a thunderbolt. They are heard no longer, and they were as effectless as is most rumbling thunder. It is marvelous, by the way, what a mighty noise a thunder storm makes, and how very rarely the lightning strikes.

The Herald is no defender of Christian Science, except that it is a defender of free speech and free thought and original ideas of every sort. Nor is the Herald an apologist for Mrs. Eddy, save as it believes that everybody has a right to his or her own individuality, and that a maligned and abused individual, maligned and abused without apparent reason or justice, should arouse sympathy, while the maligner should arouse contempt.

There evidently has been little cause for the attacks made by the New York World upon Mrs. Eddy. If all that was said was true, it would have been well worth the saying and more. But, as future events go far to show that much that was said was absolutely false, we can see no reason whatsoever for its saying. Whether it was said for sensational effect or for whatsoever cause, the World has lost dignity and respect by its anti-Eddy warfare. Christian Science, so far as we can see, has lost naught, and Mrs. Eddy has come through it all unscathed.

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