Editorial April 22, 1911 Issue

THE TEST OF ENDURANCE

Archibald McLellan

That there is a steady increase in the number of branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, and in the number of those who attend our services, is well exemplified in a press despatch from Chicago which we print in another column. It is also most gratifying to be able to state that this increase is not confined to any one city or locality, but is general and wide-spread. During the four months since December first of last year there has been an increase of 21 in the number of branch churches and societies holding regular Sunday services, as shown by the directory of such churches and societies, published in The Christian Science Journal, and it is also worthy of note that during the same time the number of applications for membership in The Mother Church received by the Clerk has been equal to any similar period in the history of the church.

Such unimpeachable facts should be and are a sufficient answer to those who have predicted the disintegration and downfall of the church and movement which Mrs. Eddy founded, forgetting or failing to realize that this great movement was not founded upon a basis of personality, but upon divine Principle, and that just to the extent that this Principle becomes known and is demonstrated, to that extent will there continue to be accessions to the Christian Science church. This demonstration of the healing power of Christian Science is within the reach of every Christian Scientist, and so long as this healing power is made manifest in the lives of those who have responded to the call of Truth, so long will we find new branch churches being formed and the roll of membership in The Mother Church largely increased.

Quite in line is the following statement from an editorial in a recent issue of the Covington (Ky.) Post: "The fate of Christian Science is ultimately to be determined not by the courts, but by the common sense of the public. It will stand or fall according as it squares or fails to square with the stern test of all physical, social, or moral reforms: Does it 'deliver the goods?' "

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