The Sunday edition of the Boston Herald, June 14, contained a slight note of reproof to an American correspondent of the London Times, for misrepresenting the Christian Science movement in Boston. He is criticised for reporting "after the hall is crowded to suffocation (to hear the founder of the Science preach) people stand outside in the hope of catching a chance word." The criticism should have fallen on reporters for papers nearer home than London. The staid old Traveller, of Boston, once noted (what was quite true) that "Hawthorne Hall was crowded one hour before service commenced, and half an hour after the arrival of the pastor the tide of men and women were turned from the doors with the information, ' No more standing room.'" The conservative Post declared a "very large audience, and still the people came. They filled the aisles, overflowed the ante-rooms and stood in the entry and went away unable to gain entrance." Other Boston papers have from time to time reported what the Herald is pleased to call a "smilable picture" of a crowd going out of "curiosity." "Curiosity" must have met with unprecedented gratification in the minds of what the unfriendly Congregationalist calls an "intelligent looking audience," when large numbers of them gratefully tendered five dollar notes. Sabbath after Sabbath, to the inspired preacher. The Herald adds: "If there have been any miracles in the way of curing disease, it is queer that so little is heard about them." The secular press, (other papers religiously bar their gates to any but malicious misrepresentations.) from California to Maine, has reiterated again and again, "These Scientists do heal miraculously." The Boston Record of a late date, declared that a "cloud of witnesses testify to the fact that paralysis vanishes, dyspepsia surrenders, and curving spines straighten under the conquering glance of Christian Science." The Providence Journal said lately, "arguments pro and con, notwithstanding, there remains the stubborn fact that remarkable cures are every day reported and duly attested."
Prof. Fowler having said that if these Scientists heal, he will accept their theology, an army of Scientists with their cured patients have besieged his Boston quarters, and demanded that he keep his word.
Rev. Rice, of Danvers, having publicly told people that the Scientists tried to get "fraudulent diplomas" of the State when he was in the legislature, the Scientists have, through the papers, denied the charge and called for retraction.
