Attendants at Chicago, last June, were greatly pleased with Mason's Address. Western people liked it so much, that one of them wished to print it; but it was decided best to issue it in Boston, through our Publication Committee.
The result is a handsome pamphlet of fifty pages, in large type, from the Ellis press, 141 Franklin Street. Thanks are due for the accuracy and regularity of the proofsheets, the copy being so carefully followed, and the first proofs so diligently read, that the author's corrections were mostly changes which he thought best to make. This accuracy so facilitated publication, that in a fortnight from the hour when the manuscript went into the printer's hands, the Birdseye was ready to open and be seen.
It takes up several of the objections commonly urged against Christian Science, and handles them brightly and skilfully. Indeed this pamphlet is calculated to make a favorable impression for the cause it represents, as it is certainly written in a frank yet conciliatory mood. While it does not disguise his opinion of the superiority of Science to other forms of Christianity, it treats opponents in the spirit of charity. The foreman who supervised the printing says the Address gave him a higher idea.
