So much has been said recently of Christian Science, and it has been brought prominently before the public in so many ways that even the most sceptical feel an interest in it. Still, only a few of those one meets know enough about it to be able to give any intelligent opinion of its principles, and still less of its actual workings.
At a meeting of the Christian Scientists of this city held in their church on Bowen Street last night a very good opportunity was offered to see what kind of persons belong to this faith, and to see what is done at their meetings, how their services are conducted, and to hear what was said, and listen to accounts of the work that is being done throughout the country. As the observer looked about the church, which was well filled in spite of the storm, he saw an assembly of people of evidently more than ordinary intelligence and education, just such people as are met in a business way from day to day, of whom it would be said that they were of the "better class." The congregation is clearly free from "the man of one idea," that much-described, unreasoning, long-haired individual who is himself the doom of his own cause.
Many ignorant people have supposed that the Scientists are composed largely of persons of this sort, but none such are seen here. The gathering is clearly one of representative people.
