From an English Paper

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To say that the Christian Scientists are indignant at the attack made upon their faith at the Church Congress, on Saturday, would not be correct. The Christian Scientists could scarcely be indignant at anything, it seems. But they are none the less willing to refute the charges brought against them.

Lady Victoria Murray, First Reader at the church in Victoria Park, Manchester, was seen at her home by a Daily Dispatch representative.

Lady Victoria Murray, a daughter of Lord Dunmore, was herself the recipient of the blessings that she claims flow from the faith. Ten years ago she was dangerously ill with consumption and spinal disease. All other hope failing, she was given into the care of Christian Scientists, in whom she did not believe. To-day she is a quiet lady, who, in the midst of an active, busy life in connection with her church work, can spare time patiently for inquisitive pressmen. Traces of past suffering there may be, but there are no present bodily pangs. Her father, too, was cured of a bad injury. She related some cases within her own knowledge of people being cured. They were generally skeptics when they came — they came as a last resource.

The Scientists were accused of not believing in the Divinity of Christ, in the crucifixion, the resurrection, and the ascension, "but," said she, "these seem to us to be the essence of Christianity. Our work depends upon understanding the divine Christ. Our converts do believe thoroughly, not merely in the faith as a cure, but because Christian Science gives them a perfect God. We teach that all good and only good comes from God, and therefore that we have no right to believe in the negation of goodness. And it works out that our time is so taken up with good that we have no time for evil."

With regard to the criticism that if Christian Science were true there would be no charity or sympathy in the world — that no one would have anything wrong with them — Lady Victoria Murray pointed to the fact that Christian Scientists were devoting their lives absolutely to the amelioration of sickness and suffering. Modestly she said that in her five years in Manchester she had not been to a single social event.

Lady Victoria Murray spoke as one pleased of the circumstance that she had seen Mrs. Eddy, the Founder of the faith, four times, and had talked with her. Mrs. Eddy was born probably about the same time as the late Queen Victoria, but she was still active and able to run up and down stairs, — a proof of her theory that old age was not inevitable.

"Do you hold, then, that we need never die?" asked the pressman.

Lady Victoria Murray smiled. "Ah! death," she said, "is our final enemy, and some day may we not overcome this enemy as we have done others?"

Daily Dispatch, Manchester, Eng.

[The article, "A Doctor's Tribute," which appeared in last week's Sentinel, was inadvertently credited to the London Dsily Dispatch. The credit should have read. Daily Dispatch, Manchester, Eng.—Editor.

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