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following incident well illustrates the fact that many people hesitate to read Christian Science literature or to discuss Christian Science with those familiar with its scope and aim because they are afraid their religious opinions may become unsettled.
If you would gain an idea of the religious spirit of a great part of the North American people, of a religion that is simple, convincing, iconoclastic, visit the temple of Christian Science; perhaps your Latin temperament, always on guard against strange novelties, will keep you from believing; but you will carry away with you an impression of fervor and of spiritual tranquillity.
As parents have control of their children, if their experience with materia medica and Christian Science has convinced them of the greater efficacy of Christian Science, they certainly have the right to use it for their children in time of sickness, and as the practice of Christian Science is the practice of their religion, the National and State constitutions guarantee them this right.
Our reverend critic says that good thoughts are beneficial up to a certain point, but that they have their limitations,—that no amount of thought will set a broken leg or restore the crushed hand.
I picked up a newspaper this morning and found a paragraph that read after this fashion: "If we would avoid war, we should train our young men how to fight.
