Article July 1, 1911 Issue

Christian Science continues to attract converts, despite...

Portland (Ore.) Spectator

Christian Science continues to attract converts, despite opposition and evil report—probably because of them, to some extent. East and West, membership in the churches is increasing, and there is a growing demand for information as to what Christian Science means. To meet this demand lecturers go from city to city, expounding the faith and not infrequently instructing while chiding the ignorance that assails Christian Science.

A religion is no more responsible for the things said of it by its devotees than liberty is responsible for the crimes committed in its name. Those who do not know very much about Christian Science ascribe to it beliefs that Christian Scientists do not hold. It is probably because so much interest has been taken in it, that so much that is not true about it has been invented and repeated.

It probably would not matter if Christian Science did none of the things its followers know it does and all the things its enemies say it does; there would still be enough of a religion left to keep the world in pretty fair mental and moral condition. Christian Scientists are a genial, optimistic, smiling, sunny-minded lot, whose influence on the world must be good. Even if they are deceived when they walk upright and think they are cured of physical ailments that would lay other people on their backs, the delusion is not maleficent—indeed, its spread would be of great service to the race.

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