The
highest philosophic thought has for many centuries grasped the sense that there is and must be an invisible reality opposed to the phenomenal and transient view of things.
While appreciating the kindly tone of the editorial commenting on Christian Science, there are a few references that might make it less easy for your readers to approach the study of this subject, which you will not mind having pointed out.
Some attempt is made among pronounced opponents of Christian Science to make much out of the announcement that a branch of the church in New Jersey has seceded from The Mother Church in Boston and started in business for itself on an independent basis.
The phenomenal growth of intellectual religion as propagated by the Christian Scientists is the logical result of the application of the God-given attributes of love and intelligence whereby spiritual elevation is attained and love, the essence of religion, is manifest.
When the World published two weeks ago a list of thirty-two children who had died of diphtheria and other diseases during the last thirteen years while being treated by Christian Science practitioners, it moved Virgil O.
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time immemorial the world has sighed for peace and plenty, for justice and equity, and has striven to attain these human ideals by various methods, all more or less unsatisfactory.