Our clerical critic is probably not aware that Christian Scientists, as a Christian people, are doing as much in their way to preserve the health of mankind and to overcome discord and disease of every name and nature as are members of other denominations.
Christian Science has been steadily and surely gaining a higher place in the estimation of the public, as evidenced by the increasing number of persons daily coming to it for help and comfort.
It is none of our business, of course, but those who see in the New York hotel proprietor who died under Christian Science treatment "another victim of Eddyism" may as well recall that persons under treatment by followers of the dominant school of healing have been known to die from malaria and ptomaine poisoning.
Through the lists in The Bookman and elsewhere it is comparatively easy to keep track of the popularity of current fiction, as well as of some of the non-fiction and juvenile books.
Some
years ago, an employee of the English government, stationed at Bombay, being of a somewhat philanthropic turn of mind, conceived the idea of making use of his vacation by a journey to the plague-stricken district of Cashmere, with the hope of bringing succor to the afflicted ones.
Recently
it came into my experience to travel through many cities in a short space of time, each day finding me confronted by some new condition as I moved rapidly from place to place.
