That
the Methodist Church in cities had ceased to grow in membership; that the Christian Church at large was passing through a revolution, and was face with a crisis; that religious themes no longer interested men, and that ministers, as such, were no longer revered, were some of the statements made by Rev.
with contributions from Margaret Umber, Eliza Thruston Houk, E. B. R.
For nearly five years I have known of the "Way" to peace and holiness and I sought it; not because of the sufferings of the flesh, but because of the heart's longings for something higher than I had found in the Baptist creed and doctrine.
A lady
came to me one evening after our Wednesday evening meeting, asking me to come to see her mother, a lady over eighty-five years of age, whom the physician had failed to help.
That
vigilant watchman on the ramparts of Zion, the New York Sun, a journal falsely accused of cynicism and Mitchellism, laments, as we have done many times, the decay of faith.
When
in one of our large western cities recently, I visited the Public Library, and my curiosity led me to look through their subject catalogue to ascertain what they had on the subject of Christian Science, and great was my surprise to find but one book indexed under this subject, and said book was not one of the Mother's publications.