THE above is the title of an excellent article on Christian Science recently printed in Der Westen, a German family weekly of the first rank published at Chicago.
The paper is prefaced with a truly classical translation of "The Lamp," from the Christian Science Journal for August. Mrs. Eddy's interpretation of Scripture is characterized as "worthy of the most eminent theologians of the world."
Commenting upon the prominent part taken by women in religious movements of every age and clime, the writer adds the following:— "The advent of a woman as the founder of a religion, moreover, of a religion that to all appearance rejects all one's philosophic systems, denies a score of conceptions with which man has literally grown up,' peremptorily invalidates the right of subsistence hitherto claimed by medical science; this is so conspicuous a manifestation, and withal so prominent a characteristic in connection with the close of this age as to be deserving of our attention; for it is a sign— one of the many signs— of reaction that was bound to follow in the wake of the feverish craving for enlightenment manifested during the century's dawn. As aforetime one of the dictums chosen by the revolutionary element of modern Europe upheld 'the emancipation of the flesh,' so to-day, resounds around us the watchword of the emancipation of Mind. 'Mind, not matter' is one of the mottoes of Christian Science, which was displayed in company with another, Men, not things,' on the program of the World's Religious Congress.
