Charles A. Murray, seventh Earl of Dunmore, born in 1841, is a prominent Scotch peer and baron of the United Kingdom. He served with distinction in the British army and was for many years a lord-in-waiting to Queen Victoria. He is also a noted hunter and traveler and has published several books on India and Central Asia. With his family he is a firm believer in the teachings of Christian Science, and the following article explains the reasons for his faith. He has been most influential in the spread of Christian Science throughout Great Britain, where it is now making relatively greater progress than in America, and one of his daughters, Lady Victoria Murray, is a Science practitioner in Manchester, England. Lord Dunmore spends much of his time on his magnificent estate of nearly eighty thousand acres in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
EVERY political and religious movement of any consequence has invariably become an important factor in the making of the world's history; and just as every political movement has had its head, so in like manner has every religious movement had its leader, from the days of Moses to those of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy.
There is no doubt that every circumstance connected with religion is being more diligently investigated to-day by deep thinkers of both sexes than it ever was before. This is nothing more nor less than the spiritual activity of the human mind making itself felt in its research for that truth which elevates human thought and purifies human aspirations. Consequently when the most important religious movement that mankind has witnessed since the foundation of Christianity itself, namely, Christian Science, was revealed to the world, it was at the same time divinely decreed that the revealer of this great truth should be a woman, devout, unselfish, and with a spiritual understanding of those laws which relate to Christ and his teachings as found in the Bible— a woman whose loving, self-sacrificing nature should be ever prominent before the world as an example for every one to follow. Thus was Mrs. Eddy's mission ordained to be a mission of love in the true spiritual acceptation of the term, and that she has conscientiously fulfilled and is still nobly fulfilling that mission has been amply demonstrated, during the whole of her ministry, not only to her immediate followers, but to the world at large.
