Christian Science in the Paris Exposition

BY M. H. L.

In March of this year, two Scientists, husband and wife, sailed for Paris. The Exposition was visited and permission asked to secure a place for an exhibition and distribution of Christian Science literature. Two days of patient waiting in ante-rooms, of pursuing busy men through miles of unfinished exhibits, of promised help and seeming failure, passed. The third day a space in the United States department in the gallery of the largest building in the Exposition, known as the palace of threads, yarns, textile fabrics, and clothing, was given them for a table eighteen inches wide on which could be placed pamphlets—reprints from the Christian Science Journal—both in French and English. When the manager demurred, saying that such matter did not really belong in his department, he was told that it was "a new robe," at which he laughed and said, "Well, I have had many friends healed by it," and made no further objection.

Permission was given by the manager of the New York reading room in the United States Building to have the Journal and Sentinel placed on the table, and the next day they were there.

The greatest discovery of the present century seemed to demand a more important place, and as a man with a consecrated pocket-book desired the privilege of furnishing the funds, the local leaders in the Christian Science Church aided the two Scientists in endeavoring to secure more space. Having engaged their passage, they were obliged to leave Paris before the desired place was secured. The following extract from a letter of Mlle. D., gives the result of the faithful work of Mrs. B. and Mlle. D.

"Paris, June 8, 1900.

"We are very happy to have good news to tell you. We went Tuesday to the Exposition to see what we could do and we were told to come back the next day,—that we might get something. So we went Wednesday afternoon and looked at a place at the Palais de l'Optique. It is a beautiful place which attracts crowds of people to see the marvels of science. We chose a place in the great rotunda, and they told us to come back the next day for the contracts, which we did, and after some hours we had them by depositing some money in advance; so we have it in black and white for sure and we are glad.

"Think of it! Christian Science is going to be in four places in the Exposition; all the works of our Leader, the Journal, and the Sentinel are in the library of the Palais de la Femme, at our place at the Palais de l'Optique, at the table in the gallery at the Large Palace, and in the reading room of the United States building."

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