Article March 16, 1929 Issue

An item appearing on your "pioneer page" in a recent...

Thomas C. Hollingshead, Committee on Publication for the State of Idaho,—Boise

Idaho Statesman

An item appearing on your "pioneer page" in a recent Sunday issue serves to call attention to the remarkable growth of the Christian Science church; and this growth is of interest to all well-informed persons. This item, "reprinted from the Statesman's files of forty years ago," tells of one going from Boise to Pendleton, where she was then practicing metaphysical healing, and adds, "She claims to heal by a method known as 'Christian Science.' The Pendleton papers give no particulars as to the success of her method." Forty years ago few knew what Christian Science was, whereas to-day over two thousand churches and societies are to be found throughout the civilized world. Those who have been benefited by its ministrations number millions. Every known disease has been successfully treated by it; and in nearly every city and town of this country may be found someone who has been healed by this system, in many cases after being given up as hopeless by the best exponents of other methods. Many addicted to the use of drugs and intoxicants have been freed from this slavery; and thousands to whom the Bible had been a closed book have become its daily students, and are striving to follow the teachings of Jesus and his disciples.

The Christian Science church was established in 1879, and was designated "to commemorate the word and works of our Master" and to "reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing" (Church Manual, p. 17); and though it attracts attention through the healing of disease, as was the case in the ministry of Jesus, this is not its primal mission, which is "to take away the sins of the world" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 150). The world is coming to recognize that to Mrs. Eddy it owes a great debt of gratitude. It is beginning to see her as a remarkable religious leader, an outstanding humanitarian, a faithful and humble follower of the Master. It is also beginning to recognize value of her great gift to the world—Christian Science.

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