To the Editor of the Sentinel.
After having read the discourse about Christian Science in your issue of June S by Rev. Wm. Chester, I desire to make a response. It does not look reasonable to me that any persons sincere in their desire to learn about this subject should go to a Presbyterian minister to find out! When one wishes to learn of the Presbyterian doctrine, does he go to a Lutheran? Or a Baptist to a Unitarian? It seems to me they would naturally go to those who are directly engaged in this line of thought, and whose time is given in imparting it.
It is significantly true, as the minister says, that "very many among the most cultured and thoughtful classes in almost every community are among the discip'es of Christian Science." Careful estimates place the number of adherents at over a million, though a small fraction of this number are identified with its organizations. Business men like truthful statistics, and these show over one hundred organized churches and double the number of societies, which maintain regular Sunday services. There are nearly one hundred dispensaries and reading rooms, with a rapidly growing demand for standard works and periodicals. This showing is of importance, and with such signs of growth, it is not readily discernible how this understanding "will have its day and die out."
