with contributions from Fannie E. Austin, R. L. Carpenter, John James Taylor, Theodore Parker
It is startling at times to see men and women of pure minds and right conduct apologizing for the act of a man who leaves his wife and children, and consorts with a woman whom he regards as his mental or moral affinity.
The Christian Science Journal, published at Boston, as the official organ of the religious following whose name it bears, comes out for August full of good things as usual, including a number of articles illustrating the peculiar tenets of this branch of religious thought, both in precept and example.
WE
are often met with the statement that if Christian Science is the Truth we should be able so to explain it as to be understood by those who maintain that they cannot see it as we do.
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
are glad that their efforts at honest Christian living are bearing such fruits as, in comparison with other good people, enable a Christian minister to give the following unqualified words of commendation: "I have studied Christian Scientists for years, and I never found such a uniformly good people in my travels.
The
second year's work upon the Chautauqua grounds at the beautiful lake, miscalled Devil's Lake, has been a source of gratification to the Scientists.