In the July number of the Century Magazine may be found a paper called "Christian Science"and "Mind Cure" from the able pen of Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckley, who has already published articles on Faith-healing, and on other similar topics.
The evident purpose of the article is not so much instruction as entertainment. The author means to tell a good story, and he does it. His essay is worthy of notice in this Journal, however, chiefly because so much attention has been aroused in other literary camps, leading to diatribes in the daily papers, some of which are by no means gifted with the wisdom of Dr. Buckley's essay, which is generally fair and discriminating. He may not always separate the wheat from the tares. The Truth is sometimes so sandwiched, that it momentarily resembles the thieves crucified on either side; but this is not done with malice aforethought.
To be sure, he refers copiously to the works of W . F . Evans, Miss Sarah Grimke, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart, Edward Arens, Miss Kate Taylor, Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Nichols, Mr. Hazzard, Luther M. Marston; but he nowhere confounds these writers with Rev. M. B. G. Eddy. In this he is right.
