The helpful doctrines of Christian Science are as old as the Bible, for this religion is founded upon the Bible, which is accepted as its final authority.
We do not all agree with the beliefs of Christian Science, but all of us who are in harmany with the spirit of American institutions are going to accord adherents of the cult the liberty of conscience.
That the Christian Science church is supplying a need that has existed from the beginning of world is proved by its marvelous grwoth in the last decade.
Christian Science strongly opposes every effort to influence another mentally against his highest good, whether this is done under the name of hypnotism, mesmerism, animal magnetism, or any other name, or under no name at all.
Mortals
are so accustomed to insist that all things shall come to them only through the inspection office of physical sense, there receiving its stamp of approval or condemnation and being consigned to a mission of joy or sorrow as the officer of human opinion may dictate, that even gratitude for that which arouses us from a sense of materiality needs to be learned in Christian Science.
It
was two hundred and eighty-eight years ago that a band of people, small in number but large in faith and in loyal devotion to right, came together for a public thanksgiving to God for their first scanty harvest, wrested from nature by untold toil, privation, and self-sacrifice, in the wilderness of a strange land.
