From
time to time during the past six years we have warned our readers against a man who has been securing money under the false pretence that he is a Christian Scientist in temporary need of funds.
More than thirty thousand Christian Scientists from all over the country were in Boston Sunday when the new two-million-dollar temple was dedicated with impressive ceremonies.
The members of the Christian Science faith certainly set a better example of brotherly love and broad-mindedness then some of their critics in the old-line churches.
The dedication of The Mother Church of Christian Science at Boston, with its paid-up cost of two million dollars, and its tremendous outpouring of eager communicants from all over the civilized world, is an event of impressiveness and momentous significance.
The editor of the Herald, in his courteous rejoinder to the writer's comments on some of his references to Christian Science, evidences his belief in the thought-power in the world.
A Friend
recently remarked to the writer that despite her earnest effort and desire she had been unable to bring her thought into accord with Christian Science.
[The following letter, received by our Leader from the Earl of Dunmore, who was one of our recent visitors from England, will interest our readers who had the pleasure of meeting so many Christian Scientists from across the water.
The clergy of all men ought to make it their one strenuous effort to free themselves from bias, to examine into facts and give credence to nothing calculated to provoke nor which is not irrefutably established, to make their deductions rationally and dispassionately, to exhibit a due sense of proportion, to realize that a drastic remedy can never be justified save for the most desperate disease, to discountenance appeals to passion and prejudice, and to rebuke sternly the spirit of hatred and uncharitableness.
