[Essay of Charles Frederic Baxter, delivered at the Opera House in Gardiner, Me., on the occasion of his graduation from the High School of that place, June 18, 1896.]
THE fact that Harvard professors, and presidents and professors of other leading colleges and universities have been investigating Christian Science, has made it popular, and it is fitting for all students to investigate it for themselves, and so a timely topic for an essay on this occasion.
Christian Science was discovered by the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy in eighteen hundred and sixty-six, by her sudden recovery from the effects of an injury her physician had pronounced fatal.
