We
learn from the Boston papers that scores of people have left the Chelsea churches to go over to "that peculiar people known as Christian Scientists," at the door of one of whom an effort has been made to place the responsibility for the death of a Chelsea woman who preferred Christian Science treatment, she being in her right mind at the time, to that of a regular medical practitioner.
The
corner-stone of the new Temple being erected by Second Church of Christ, Scientist, at 68th Street and Central Park West, New York City, was laid on Easter morning at seven o'clock.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.
Those
who are familiar with Bulwer Lytton's famous tale of "The Coming Race," in which he pictures an ideal state in human progress, can readily appreciate how far his ideal is surpassed by every-day life in Christian Science.