Article March 15, 1913 Issue

In the past year there has been a remarkable increase in...

Spectator

In the past year there has been a remarkable increase in the membership of Christian Science churches. Nearly every city in the Union reports a wider interest in Christian Science; and here in Portland we have a notable evidence of its growth in the organization of a fourth church. Only a few years ago, the few believers in Christian Science found one small hall large enough for their needs; then there began to be overflow meetings, and a larger hall was secured; then a great and beautiful church was erected; and now those who profess the Christian Science faith find it necessary to have four churches.

In discussing some of the reasons for the wonderful growth of Christian Science, the Spectator three years ago said it was due, in some measure, to the strange and unfathomable persecutions to which the Founder and some of the prominent members of the movement were subjected. (This suggestion, of course, was quite outside of the inherent merit that could be found in Christian Science.) But today, when preachers of other churches have ceased thundering against the movement, and when the newspapers and magazines that eagerly opened their columns to attacks on it and its Leader have returned to the more profitable purveyance of criminal news for their crime-loving readers, we find that Christian Science grows faster than ever. There must be something to a faith that spreads triumphantly on persecution and which flourishes luxuriantly without the nourishing dew of the blood of its martyrs.

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