Christian Science
comes with a message of hope to those individuals who from childhood upward have been handicapped by what is termed "a poor constitution.
The love of beauty which exalts the poet; that devotion to the One and that ascent of science which makes the ambition of the philosopher, and that love and those prayers by which some devout and ardent soul tends in its moral purity toward perfection,—these are the great highways conducting to that height above the actual and the particular, where we stand in the immediate presence of the infinite, who shines out as from the deeps of the soul.
In a recent issue you record under large heading the death of a child in Philadelphia from diphtheria, and the heading states that the death was "due to Christian Science," because the child had been under Christian Science treatment.
I wish that every Jew would heartily endorse the plea of Henry Deutsch, made by him in the daily press, for "the equal right of every individual to worship and practise his religion as it seems best to him, without harm or injury to, or interference with, his neighbor.
