Article December 4, 1909 Issue

The optimist who believes that the world is getting...

St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette

The optimist who believes that the world is getting better every day and that altruism and brotherly love will yet dominate the commercial, social, and religious life of mankind the world over, must have been rudely shocked when he read in a local paper of St. Joseph that the "Ministerial Alliance of St. Joseph" had decided to make a "vigorous attack" on Christian Science. This combination of all the churches to destroy one savors of persecution. It is atavistic—a harking back to the dark ages. It is an unpleasant reminder of the thumb-screw, the rack, and the burning fagots by which religious intolerance and bigotry for twelve centuries tortured to the death many thousands of God-loving Christians who dissented in some particular from the dominant church.

Who are these Christian Scientists upon whom the Ministerial Alliance has declared a war of extermination? A few months ago one of the ablest ministers this city ever had, himself a member of the "Ministerial Alliance of St. Joseph," publicly used the following language: "I wish to say that I respect the peace, humility, sweetness, patience, and the abounding love that characterizes many if not all Christian Scientists. I respect their influence for good and the truth they teach."

All the world knows that these words are true. Never since "the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy," has there been a religion or system of ethics founded or promulgated by mortal man that effectively heals the sick and sorrowing, regenerates and purifies the heart, and gladdens, enriches, and beautifies the lives of its devotees and followers as Christian Science. Judged by her life-work and its fruits, Mrs. Eddy is the greatest woman in history and one of the greatest benefactors of mankind; and millions yet unborn will speak her name with love and gratitude, long, long years after the "vigorous attacks" of the Ministerial Alliance of St. Joseph have "gone glimmering among the things that were."

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