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PAST AND PRESENT

From the March 1889 issue of The Christian Science Journal


The history of the Journal makes a curious chapter in the exhibition of mental phenomena brought out by the growth of Science in human consciousness. Its first number was issued in April, 1883, by the Discoverer of Christian Science, and was at first a small eight page sheet published only once in two months. In 1885 it took its present form, though of only half the present size.

A little more than two years ago Mrs. Eddy withdrew from the editorship, but maintained a nominal censorship of its contents, the purpose of which was oftener defeated than gained, in the constant struggle of mortal thought to defeat or to circumvent Truth.

Less than one year ago a struggle of this sort culminated, whose impulse, hope, and purpose were to wreck not only the Journal but to arrest the progress— as an organized movement— of Christian Science.

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