stic and
successful. I am fairly well informed on the history of all great
religions. In degree I know the character of intellect possessed by the
folks who make or made up their membership. And my opinion is, that no
religion that has ever existed contained so large a percentage of
intelligent people, competent, safe and sane, as does Christian Science.
There is an adage to the effect that a prophet is not without honor save
in his own country.

In the case of Mary Baker Eddy, the adage just quoted goes awry. Mrs.
Eddy as long as she lived, retained the good-will of Concord, Boston and
Brookline, where she chose to make her home. Very many of the leading
men and women of each of these cities are Christian Scientists.

The Christian Science Church at Concord cost upwards of two hundred
thousand dollars, and was the gift of Mrs. Eddy. Over the entrance, cut
deep in granite, are the words, "Presented by Mary Baker Eddy,
Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science." As to the argument that
the truths of Christian Science have always been known and practised by
a few, Mrs. Eddy issued her direct challenge. In all of her literature
she set out the unqualified statement that she was "The Discoverer and
the Founder." She was never apologetic; she assumed no modesty she did
not feel; she spoke as one having authority, as did Moses of old, "Thus
saith the Lord!"

She entered into no joint debates; she did not answer back. This intense
conviction which admits of no parley was one of the secrets of her
power. For many years the Billingsgate Calendar was directed at her upon
every possible occasion.

But Mrs. Eddy won out, and legislation and courts were compelled to
whistle in their hounds. Your right to keep well in your own way is now
fully recognized. Doctors are not liable when they give innocent
sweetened water and call it medicine, nor do we place Christian
Scientists on trial if their patients die, any more than we do the M.
D.'s.

In fact, Mrs. Eddy influenced both of the so-called sciences of medicine
and theology. Even those who are perfectly willing to deny her, and
noisily discard her tenets, are debtors to her.

Homeopathy modified the dose of all the Allopaths; and Christian Science
has attenuated the Hahnemannian theory of attenuations, it having been
found that the blank tablet often cures quite as effectively as the one
that is medicated. Christian Science does not shout, rant, defy nor
preach. It is poise