The meeting which was held in New York last week to discuss the problems which the growing Christian Science Church presented, was one of the most interesting events of the kind on record.
A Christian Scientist
with contributions from Hazlitt
To The Commercial Appeal:— In your editorial yesterday on "Curing by Faith" there was a mistake which I am sure you will be glad to rectify, as it would seem to put Christian Science in an unfavorable light with those who do not understand its principles and practice.
To the Editor of the Standard:— I see in your paper from time to time mention of cases where the Christian Scientists, faith curers, and "higher spheres" Christian Scientists, so-called, and others, who have no right to the name, have failed and in some cases the healers have been brought before the court, but I do not see the result of the trials published in the same.
I was
present last Thursday evening at the meeting of the Aldermanic committee, where a large assemblage of representative citizens of Buffalo were gathered to listen to a controversy between Christian Scientists and the doctors.
I read
an article a few days ago written by Thomas Huxley, who was one of the kindest-hearted men that ever lived, and whose unbelief furnished the basis for a deep and continual sorrow.
When
the children of Israel first heard the good news that God had promised Moses to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, they bowed their heads and worshiped, for the Promised Land, ideally beautiful, spread itself out before their mental vision, and they could picture themselves already in possession of it.
I have
had an interesting talk with the President, and I shall set down, without comment or suggestion of opinion, and I trust in perfect fairness, my impressions of him, and of his opinions and purposes concerning the things political which are most interesting to the country.
THE
Second Church of Christ, Scientist, of this city, which meets twice each week in the Lyceum Parlors, devotes its Wednesday night meetings to the hearing of testimony and statements of experience by members and other attendants who have personal knowledge of the church's success in the healing of mental, moral, and physical diseases.