Critics
of Christian Science have sometimes assailed it as "a rich man's religion," because they have noticed that the attendants at the Sunday and Wednesday services held in the Christian Science churches are, as a rule, well dressed and even prosperous in appearance.
As the seasons come and go, we have many reminders that their deepest lessons lift thought out of materiality and bid us lay hold upon things spiritual and eternal.
Notwithstanding
statements to the contrary which have been made by enemies of Christian Science, the attitude of the followers of this religion toward other churches has ever been one of brotherly love, kindness, and consideration.
Men
have ever sought to propitiate or influence a power which they have not even tried to understand, but which they have greatly feared, and the result has been chronicled in the pitiful idolatries of the world, in the worship of might and money, and many other things.
Notwithstanding
the general and rapid growth of Christian Science throughout the world, attention is occasionally called to some city or town wherein there has seemingly been little or no progress made in the years in which this religion has been making great strides in near-by places.
Since
the beginning of the present war, the Christian church has come in for more or less criticism at the hands of the religious press, because the church in the centuries of its existence has failed to put an end to the conditions which have made possible in this twentieth century the most brutal and devastating war in centuries.
In
response to the call for contributions for the relief of Christian Scientists in distress by reason of the present war in Europe, the sum of $82,104.
