Several generations ago public sentiment, even in the United States, indorsed religious persecution, and the church gave its pious blessing to the red-handed murderers who burned "witches" at the stake.
Some
expressions are used by students of Christian Science with which they have become so generally familiar that they are perhaps apt to make undue use of them,—undue to the stranger, because being in a "new tongue" they convey too little, and undue to the student, because they suggest far too much without really elucidating enough.
