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At all the ministers' meetings yesterday petitions favoring...

From the June 1895 issue of The Christian Science Journal

San Francisco Chronicle


At all the ministers' meetings yesterday petitions favoring an investigating committee on municipal affairs were circulated and extensively signed.

The Monday Club listened to an admirable paper by Rev. J. B. Koehne on "Applied Christianity" yesterday afternoon.

"Christianity offers immeasurable improvement of character," said the speaker. It banishes selfishness by pointing at materialism. Bunyan spiritualized religion. Kingdoms have refused to recognize holy things, and have, therefore, fallen. Christ met and overthrew evil by mastering it with love. Christ calmly picked up the duty lying at his feet. What is the mission of the Christian and the church to the world? Christ's method was to convert individuals.

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