We publish some extracts from a sermon recently delivered from the pulpit of a leading Methodist church in Atlanta, Georgia, for the information it gives Christian Scientists as to the standpoint from which this class of religionists attack Christian Science, as well as aiding us in answering the oft-repeated question as to why Christian Scientists do not remain and work in their old churches?
We would not for a moment abridge the freedom of the pulpit to discuss or attack anything it wishes, but we at the same time reserve to ourselves the privilege of expressing our regret that one assuming to preach the Gospel of Christ, — the Gospel of peace and good-will, — one occupying the position of a spiritual guide, should so far forget the dignity and propriety of his position as to attack, in an ungentlemantly, if not almost brutal manner, the purest and best womanhood. God pity such conceptions of "ministerial duty."
Meantime, however, we congratulate the disciples of the Cause in our fair Southland, upon the great impetus it has received, and will receive, as the result of unjust and un-Christian villification.
