cular business. Thus
did she win to her side those who were too timid in constitution to
forsake forms and ceremonies and stand alone on the broad ground of
Rationalism.

Christian Science is not a religion of fight, stress and struggle. Isn't
it better to relax and rest and allow Divinity to flow through us, than
to sit on a sharp rail and call the passer-by names in falsetto? May
Irwin's motto, "Don't Argufy," isn't so bad as a working maxim, after
all.

All Christian denominations are very much alike. Their differences are
microscopic, and recognized only by those who are immersed in them.
Martin Luther only softened the expression of the Roman Catholic
Church--he did not change its essence.

Benjamin Franklin declared that he could not tell the difference between
a Catholic and an Episcopalian. But Christian Science is a complete
departure from all other denominations, and while professing to be
Christian, is really something else, or if it is Christian, then
orthodoxy is not.

Christian Science strikes right at the root of orthodoxy, since it
divides the power of Jesus with Mary Baker Eddy and affirms that Jesus
was not "The Savior," but A Savior.

This is the position of Thomas Paine, and all other good radicals.
Christian Science places Mrs. Eddy's work right alongside of the Bible.
No denomination has ever put out a volume stating that the book was
required in order to make the Bible intelligible. No denomination has
ever put forth a person as the equal of Jesus. This has only been done
by unbelievers, atheists and free-thinkers.

Christianity is at last attacked in its own house and by its own
household. It is thoroughly understood and admitted everywhere that
there are two kinds of Christianity. One is the kind taught by the
Nazarene; and the other is the institutional variety, made up of
denominations which hold millions upon millions of dollars' worth of
property without taxation, and parade their ritual with rich and costly
millinery.

The one was lived by a Man who had not where to lay His head; and the
other is an acquirement taken over from pagan Rome, and continued
largely in its pagan form even unto this day. Christian Science is
neither one nor the other, and the obvious pleasantry that it is
neither Christian nor scientific is a jest in earnest. Christian Science
is a modern adaptation of all that is best in the simplicity and
asceticism of Jesus, the commonsense philosophy of Benjamin Fran