The best minds of the age, sceptical as to innovations, of sober habits of thought, and accustomed to weigh evidence and sift facts, have come to the conclusion that the scientific faith foretold as the foundation of the "Church of the Future" is fulfilled in the doctrine and practical working of the New Church lately established in our midst—the Church of Christ, Scientist.
A few months ago it would not have been safe to whisper in the ears of the most conservative that puritanical intolerance had not died out of even the unconscious mind of this age. To-day, it is an established fact, provable by simply opening to the editorial columns of any secular or religious periodical published within communicating distance of the worshipful Sunday throng at the Church of Christ, Park Street.
The sorrowful and sick have been wooed by its cheery call, but even these the intolerant spirit of the "powers that be" would keep from obeying, if possible, by denouncing its beneficent ministrations and branding its apostles with titles suitable for criminals and outlaws, but unparalleled in misnaming, since the time when Jesus of Nazareth was called a pestilent fellow, perverting the people, and stirring up seditions mischievous enough to imprison and execute him for.
