That was a brave stand for liberty of conscience and religious conviction which the Rev. Dr. Max Wertheimer of Dayton, O., took in his strong and eloquent address at a Wednesday meeting of Christian Scientists in Dayton, an account of which we recently published in the Sentinel. We who have had a different religious training and had held religious convictions less at variance with the teaching of Christian Science, can little appreciate the cost at which this learned Jewish Rabbi renounced his allegiance to his former religious friends and co-workers, and his former attachments and associates. To take such a step is no trifling thing. Such a step is not taken unless it be as a result of deep and abiding conviction. That Dr. Wertheimer was moved by such conviction is shown by his well-considered and weighty remarks. There is nothing of the frothy or effervescent in his words; they are rather, like Paul's before Agrippa, words of "truth and soberness."
Momentous truly was his opening announcement, made, as reported, with "deep, earnest voice:"—
"The Rubicon of doubt and discord is crossed, the die is cast, I have identified myself with your platform, I have affiliated myself with your cause and purport, and I am here to say so. Ever conscious of the divine Presence of Truth and Love and the cultured yearnings of you all, I will tell you what prompted and led me to this startling metamorphosis."
