AN incident of unusual significance to the cause of Christian Science, came to my notice within a few days and I hasten to send it to the Journal.
In the midst of the poor district of one of our largest western cities, there is a free night-school for boys and girls from the age of five years and upwards, founded and maintained by a philanthropic citizen of the city who has become an active and devoted Christian Scientist since founding the school a few years ago. It soon became apparent to the founder of the school that its interests and usefulness would be greatly promoted by the employment of instructors well versed in the blessed Truth of Christian Science, as well as in elementary material knowledge. Such teachers were soon secured and the prosperity of the school increased. Then the question of proper text-books arose, and within the last few months the Bible and Science and Health have been introduced and are fully verifying the utterance of the author of the latter when she says: "If the Bible and Science and Health had the place in schools of learning, that physiology occupies they would revolutionize and reform the world through the power of Christ."
Instead of placing extracts from current physiologies on the blackboards for the benefit of the earnest learners, the inspired utterances of Science and Health are placed there, and the good thus derived is best known to those who have tasted this glorious Truth, either in physical or moral healing. The Christian Science Hymnal is also used in the school. While this school embraces the usual instruction of the ordinary school it adds the teaching of Science and Health, thereby sowing the pure seed of Truth in the minds of many young people, who in years to come will look back with thankful hearts, to the blessings received through having learned, not the speculative systems of materialistic knowledge, but the demonstrable Truth of Christian Science, through Science and Health. Does not the introduction of Science and Health as a text-book in this school mean much and does it not bear a promise golden? Truly should "children be taught the Christ cure among their first lessons" for to them Christian Science comes naturally, and through them as loyal Christian Scientists will the coming ages be blest.
