To me, one of the most attractive features in the teaching of Christian Science is that, while it upholds individual liberty, it inculcates respect for others' rights and maintains most emphatically that we mind our own business.
Active operations have commenced on the construction of the new Church of Christ, Scientist, which will be erected on the recently acquired lot on Michigan street and Waukazoo avenue, and the first carload of vitrified brick which will enter into the structure has been placed on the ground.
In a recent issue of the Record, a clergyman contributed an article entitled "The Divinity of Christ," in which he took occasion to make a sneering reference to the cures accomplished through Christian Science practice.
There is a growing sentiment upon the part of the public, and an awakening to indisputable facts, which will in the future preclude the possibility of placing upon our statute-books coercive, restrictive, and arbitrary laws which are introduced simply for the purpose of favoring one class of medical practitioners at the expense of all the rest and which are to the detriment of the general public.
The term "malicious animal magnetism" in Christian Science parlance refers to the human opposite of Christian Science, the mental malpractice which undertakes to ape after Christian Science even as quackery undertakes to follow the practice of the honest physician.
Christian Science is the word of God spiritually understood and scientifically demonstrated; it is an exact science because it has rule and Principle for demonstration; it is a Christian Science from the fact that it is the truth ascertained about Christianity as taught and practised by Christ Jesus.
I read with interest the experiences described in your journal for December, where it was found easier to work with a little girl who came from a home where the parents were Christian Scientists than with one who came from a home where fear was largely in evidence.
Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;" and healing, mentally, morally, and physically, was his work, accomplished through the power of God and not by material remedies.
