The Christian Scientists of Canon City have enlarged their place of worship, and have now a large, pleasant hall to accommodate their growing congregation. The hall will be wired for electric lights this week.
Many of the members of this church have been rescued from lives of invalidism and despair by the healing power of Christian Science, and by their earnest, active lives prove that they are working as well as praying for God's kingdom to come on earth as it is in Heaven. This church believes that the gospel of Christ Jesus believed and practised in its fulness will bring the end of all error; that keeping the Commandments in their highest and broadest sense as Jesus expressed them—Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy strength, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself—would bring ideal conditions on earth.
"The work of the Christian Scientists throughout the land can be well likened to a single hospital in one of our great cities that has been forced to receive all the incurable cases, all the instances that had proven failures in the other hospitals of that city; yet a large proportion of the people have demanded that the average of successful healing should be as high as, if not higher than, the average of all other healing methods combined. When it is remembered that few People ever seek aid from Christian Science until after the best curative skill of Europe and America has failed, it must be frankly admitted that the percentage of successful healing is extraordinarily large, when it is stated on good authority that the average result in such cases is in the neighborhood of seventy-five per cent., and this percentage is being daily increased through a greater mastery and understanding of the therapeutical possibilities of the system.
