Article November 20, 1909 Issue

That the Christian Science church is supplying a need...

Ithaca (N. Y.) Journal

That the Christian Science church is supplying a need that has existed from the beginning of world is proved by its marvelous grwoth in the last decade. Statistics collected for the six years previous to and ending with 1906 show that during that period the number of its churches increased from 221 to 638 and its membership from 8,724 to 85,717—a record that is duplicated by no other religious organization in the world. In 1906 the seating capacity of its churches was 81,823. This is surely a wonderful record and it speaks eloquently for the character of those who have embraced its teachings and their devotion to its principles.

The progress of the Christian Science church has been steady, silent, and resistless. Starting from the humblest of beginnings, with only a woman as its protagonist, reviled by the unthinking and opposed by those who did not even take the time to investigate its teachings at first hand, it has come to occupy a commanding position in the religious world.

Its membership is composed of the best class of our citizenship, the men and women who do big things and do them thoroughly. Its prominent workers have been tactful, active, and aggressive. Its power to render aid in the most precious concerns of life has been demonstrated not once, but hundreds of thousands of times. Its opportunities are boundless and its work will not be finished until the thralls of sin and sickness and fear and incapacity have been broken for every individual on the face of the earth.

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