Articles

St. Joseph, Mo.

Concord, N. H.

In an editorial in The Christian Endeavor World, of Boston and Chicago, under recent date, appears the following:— "The Christian Scientists have dedicated in Chicago the largest church of that denomination in the world. It cost more than $100,000, and seats two thousand people.

I First heard of Christian Science about eleven years ago. A lady boarding in the same house with us was reading Science and Health, and from her conversation at the table concerning it I caught but one word that I can remember, and that was "error.

How my heart has hungered and thirsted for this blessed Truth! From childhood I said: There must be a better way, if I could only find it. And now, as I look down the vista of years, I can see how wonderful my leadings have been.

When Christian Science came to me I stood in deeper need of it than I realized. As a boy I was brought up in the arms of the church, and took a strong interest in religious questions; but this interest lay chiefly in the direction of how to avoid eternal punishment.

But a few weeks ago, while reading "Miscellaneous Writings," by Mrs. Eddy, I came to the quotation: "Out of the depths have I delivered thee;" and it brought up before me the scene, or panorama, of my former life.

I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it. —Revelation, 3:8.

During eight years, the doctors, one after another, had sentenced me to hopeless invalidism. There was a complication of organic and functional difficulties, which was finally pronounced incurable by a council of doctors.

Christian Scientists, as a rule, are more harshly criticised, scoffed at, and maligned, than any other class of people. That which inspires these infuriated attacks is quite obvious to those who are conscientiously seeking that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus," and are striving to show all men that we are his disciples by reason of the love we have, one to another.