A contemporary publication says: "The July Christian Science Journal notes some marvelous cures almost instantly effected by the application of the Principle taught by the founder of the new system of therapeutics. M. D.'s of standing, lawyers of reputation, clergymen of acknowledged Christian character, scholarly men and women, are accepting it. It is not wise to frown upon so beneficient a doctrine, nor sensible to denounce its advocates."
The Congregationalist, whose unjust strictures on the Christian Scientists last year were the occasion of severe criticism, has recently been sued for libel by Rev. E. P. Tenney, who lays damage at $100,000.
"By exhibiting the phenomena of matter merely, it habituates the mind only to a contemplation of an order on which everything is determined by the laws of a blind or mechanical necessity.