Editor Cambridge Tribune:—A recent editorial requesting a reply to some of its questions, affords an opportunity for presenting some facts which will enable candid people to separate things which differ, but may be confused through misinformation.

1. The Christian Science movement represents a widespread awakening to the practical import of Christ's teachings. It has been gaining momentum for over thirty years, and earnest Christian people of all creeds have found in it what their hearts hoped for, namely, Christianity which has "demonstration and power."

2. The laborers in the movement remain, as a rule, in one place, and becoming known to their fellow-citizens, win respect and confidence. Their advertisement is the work they do; no other advertising is considered legitimate. The lecturers, teachers, practitioners, readers in churches, and other workers in this movement are working for the emancipation of men from both sin and sickness; a more widespread and advantageous reform than was the abolition of the slavery movement in its day.

3. The organizations, or Churches of Christ, Scientist (generally protected by state charter), are branches of the Mother Church of Christian Science, and all hold public Sunday services and Wednesday evening meetings, at which the Principle, the methods, and the practical results of Christian Science may be learned. These branch churches, in all the larger cities and towns, have public reading rooms supplied with the literature of the movement, where visitors are welcomed and given every opportunity to find out what Christian Science is doing for the world.

4. The Gospel of Christ proclaims healing for the sick as well as cleansing for the sinful. The congregations assembling as Churches of Christ, Scientist, are composed of those who rejoice in this gospel because in most cases they have been healed of disease, and in many cases redeemed from the tyranny of evil habits and sins.

5. Since 1883 the Christian Science Journal has been issued monthly, and the honest investigator may learn from its pages of the beneficent influence of Christian Science in redeeming its tens of thousands from enslaving sickness and fettering sin.

6. There are few people in the land who do not know of some friend, relative, or acquaintance healed through Christian Science. The many thousands of cases of restoration to health from diseases pronounced fatal by medical authorities, or from invalidism considered incurable, attest the power of a true Christianity to renew life, and revive the hopeless. The health and happiness of those who are now alive through this Truth, make one query whether it is fair that so large a proportion of the race should be allowed to go to premature death as now die in spite of the prevailing methods of material medicine, without being allowed a trial of Christian Science.

7. Christian Scientists are working for God and the welfare of man. Though at work now on all the continents, and the "isles of the sea," the true Scientists everywhere are one in motive, in method, and in understanding; exactly as were the astronomers who became satisfied of the correctness of the Copernican system, and could prove it,—though the world them. Charlatans and impostors may use the sacred name of Christian Science as a cloak for a time; but they are at variance, working every man for himself, and the imposture of selfishness in due time is revealed.

8. Christian Scientists have gained their unity in faith and understanding from study of the Bible and practice of its teachings according to the scientific method taught in their text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." This book was written by Mary Baker G. Eddy in 1875, and 185,000 copies of it are in circulation. The author of the text-book is the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and naturally the leader in the movement.

9. Those who know Mrs. Eddy know her to be a woman noble and pure, whose Christianly scientific labor is bringing to the world its highest good to-day; for what higher blessing is there for man than to be brought out of agnosticism, infidelity, or partial Christianity, into Universal Christianity? To become universal, Christianity must cease to be sectarian and theoretical, and become practical and scientific. Men must have exact proofs, comparable to those which mathematicians have, before they can see eye to eye. Christian Science works out exact demonstrations of its Principle, divine Love; and those who have seen these results honor and love the first worker, by whose fidelity to God and bravery before men the Science has been revealed which gives the foundation for Universal Christianity. Those who have not seen the provable truth speak loudly its opposite regarding Mrs. Eddy; and the blind garrulously offer testimony where eye-witnesses are required. If any man be blind through ignorance, let him not be led by the blind.

10. The growing unrest of the human mind as the century ends, has prophesied that which satisfies the craving,—the coming again of Truth with such healing and saving power as through Christ was first manifested. When that Truth is understood and practised, the hearts of good men will be glad in the re-union of Christendom.

11. Christianity should satisfy all the needs of man. The chase of the multitude after deceits is a pathetic symptom of the unhealed sorrow of the world. Impostors promise to heal, but cannot. People spend their all upon them, but are "nothing bettered." The Christian Scientist knows that Christ is the living bread for which all men hunger, and with that spiritual food he supplies the need of those who come to him, so that the sick are healed, the lepers are cleansed, the hopeless made alive again, and the poor enriched by the gospel preached to them, which ends thriftlessness and incapacity. For this highest of all instruction, Scientists receive in return for a week's work what a music master exacts for one hour's tuition.

12. In conclusion it may be said that here in Cambridge, for more than a year, Sunday after Sunday, Brattle Hall has been filled with a congregation of Christian people who thank God for Christian Science. At the Wednesday evening meetings there have been given testimonies as to man's dominion over sin and sickness through this Science, such as would gladden any good man's heart. A kindly welcome awaits every such investigator. We believe that in Christian Science that element which gave to early Christianity its power, is found again, and in this blessing would have all men share. The undersigned is First Reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Cambridge, and so as a representative expresses the kindly thought of the congregation. William P. McKenzie.
Cambridge (Mass.) Tribune.