The combined efforts at this hour of the materialistic portion of the pulpit and press, to retard by misrepresentation the stately goings of Christian Science, are giving it new impetus and energy, awakening the vox populi—directing more critical observation of its uplifting influence upon the health, morals and spirituality of man.
Their movements indicate fear and weakness, a physical and spiritual need that Christian Science should remove and the results become glorious. The conclusion cannot be pushed that woman has no rights that man is bound to respect. This is woman's hour in all the sweet amenities, charities, and reforms of to-day. With my scores of letters daily filled with unmeasured thanks and praise, it is difficult to say which may be most mischievous to the human heart, the praise or the dispraise of mankind.
I have loved the Church and followed it, thinking it was following Christ; but if the pulpit will allow the people to go no further in this direction and reject Apostolic Christianity, seeking to stereotype infinite Truth, it is a thing to be thankful for that we can walk alone the straight and narrow way, in the words of Douglas, "God and one are a majority.
