In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

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.
Thirty years ago there was in the United States one church with seven communicants who adhered to the faith of what is now called Christian Science.

Materiality Unreal

Human theories spring from a basis of belief instead of a basis of truth.

Effecting a Change of Thought

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.

From our Exchanges

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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.
The last issue of the Christian Science Sentinel contains a rather remarkable announcement to the effect that friends are requested to send no more money for the building of the church which was recently dedicated at Boston.
A careful study of Christian Science will reveal the fact, fundamental in its teachings, that sickness is the child of a material consciousness, conceived in sin and born in iniquity, and the antidote or remedy is not more of the same thing, disguised as you please, but still the same by nature.
Whether one believes in Christian Science or not, the period has been reached when it commands respect, attention and admiration.
To those who seem to see no good in Christian Science it must stagger their faith not a little to read the account of the dedication of the vast temple located in the heart of the city of Boston, the supposed fountain of knowledge and seat of learning of America; the spectacle of thirty thousand people assembling to gain admission to the temple shows an enthusiasm for Christian Science seldom witnessed anywhere in the world on any occasion; and this occurred in staid old Boston, and the fact was heralded in flaming headlines in the leading newspapers of the world.