The above is the title of a lengthy article in Leslie's Weekly illustrated of New York, of May 9,1895, which contains a very good portrait of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy; also good portraits of several other Christian Scientists, as well as a finely reproduced photographic view of the Mother Church. We take the liberty of extracting the following from said article;—
"If the testimony of several thousand New Yorker, and of more than one hundred thousand residents of the United States is to be believed, the most astounding discovery of modern times has been made by Mrs. Mary B. G. Eddy, of Massachusetts, and its subtle but tremendous consequences are gradually and secretly changing the spiritual and physical constitution of civilized mankind. One of these consequences is the spread of that singular religion called Christian Science. Another is the erection in such cities as Boston of expensive and beautiful churches, like the one a picture of which is printed in this issue. Yet another is the leasing and regular Sunday occupation of such enormous audience-rooms as that of the Chicago Auditorium for the dissemination of the new doctrine and the accommodation of its enthusiastic believers. Still another, and one of the most interesting of these consequences, is the conversion to this belief of many men and women of education and intelligence, such as readily warrant their friends in supposing them superior to the vagrant attractions of latter day fanaticisms. Perhaps the greatest result is the fact that Catholic, and Protestant must alike recognize in the United States the existence of a new form of religious belief which, while distinctly disavowing hostility to either of them, threatens to dispute with them for the spiritual dominion over man."
