Article September 24, 1910 Issue

If Christian Science has done nothing else for modern...

Indianapolis (Ind.) Star

If Christian Science has done nothing else for modern religious thought, it is worth while simply for the demonstration it affords in crowded congregations, assembled through no enticements of pulpit oratory or celebrated singers and organists, but chiefly through the spontaneous impulse of personal religious experience. The idea of church service as worship must be kept alive. Too often it is overshadowed in our fashionable congregations by the duty of forming discriminative judgment on the contributions offered toward the enjoyment of the occasion by the literary allusions of the pastor, the upper register of the soprano, the dignity of the new usher, and the poems in willow plumes and Milan braid from our most refined and enterprising milliners.

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