A pretty Western editress runs an Express pouring out threatenings against the author of Science and Health, whence she seeks the little she knows of Christian Science. She is glaringly on the wrong track for driving by this author, whose way is the highway of holiness, which leads to harmony, light, and Love; while her critic's is the byway of envy, jealousy, and hate.
With what grand eloquence and superinduced malice she deals her blows on the unoffending, in order to strand them on shoals of her imagining! Her picture of a weather-beaten hulk shows a vast amount of ignorance on the part of the writer, for great reformers never reach that condition. It is only those who strive to build up kingdoms of their own who are thus stranded.
The reactionary wave acts the wrong way, not against, but for the author of Science and Health, whose honest students see a steady gain in her ability to convince the incredulous; and they speak of this in every succeeding class.
