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THE LAKE SHORE NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1919 11 thinking is the Christian Science Church. This church includes a cen- tral organization, The Mother Church, and branch churches and so- cieties in virtually every quarter of the globe. There are nearly 1806 branches, and new ones are being organized at an average rate of one per week. Government of these branch churches is uniquely demo- cratic. Each makes its own by-laws, elects its own officers, and regulates its own business affairs. A system of rotation, whereby important execu- tive offices are held as a rule for not more than three, years by a single member, has proved a satisfactory substitute for personal leadership. In- dividual liberty and equality are ex- emplified in spiritual as well as in temporal affairs, and so this church has neither place nor need for priest or clergy. In the Christian Science Journal, official organ of this church, are list- ed the names of 6000 registered prac- titioners of Christian Science, an army of consecrated men and wom- en, who, often at much personal sac- rifice, devote their time to Christian healing. To be thus listed, they must forego other occupations. Therefore it is but just that- they should have a livelihood from those who receive the direct benefit of their work. In fairness it should be said, however, that Christian Science treatment is essentially Christian, therefore com- passionate; that anything savoring of the barter and sale of this gift of Divine Love would be repugnant to a. genuine Christian Scientist, and that no one capable of rightly apply- ing it could be capable of refusing it to a fellow being in need and unable to pay. The amount of work done without material compensation by the average Christian Science practition- er will compare with the large pro- portion cA charity work in the prac- tice, of the average physician. What is i mere to the point, the effect of Christian Science treatment is likely to enable the patient to get out of the charity class. One who has been helped to realize even in slight de- gree, the presence of divine in- telligence, whose thoughts have been cleared of enervating fears at the same time that his body has been re- lieved of enslaving disease, probably will not remain long in want. Great Interest Shown This church maintains a board of lectureship, whose members endeavor especially to meet the needs of those â-  who may have little or no knowledge of Christian Science, but who wish to know whether it offers a practical way out of human ills of whatever sort. The extent of the reaching out iu this direction is indicated by the fact that two thousand lectures were heard last year by approximately one million five hundred thousand per- sons. Another unique feature of the Christian Science movement is the free public reading rooms maintain- ed by each church. The expense is borne by the members in loving cratitude for the opportunity to make available to their neighbors that which has brought health and haopincss to themselves. The work of the reading rooms is supplement- ed by hundreds of distribution com- mittees through whom vast quanti- ties of literature are sent wherever they are assured it will be welcome. The purpose of this distribution is not mere entertainment, nor even education in the ordinary sense, nor to. win converts to the church. The study of Christian Science literature has healed the sick and reformed the sinner in thousands of well-authenti- cated cases, and those who promote such study are performing a distinct service to humanity. Although never unmindful that the supreme need of mankind is spiritual enlightenment, of which physical j enemies healing is an incidental effect, the Christian Church does not neglect its humanitarian opportunities. In great public emergencies its response is prompt and substantial, and its members usually are found to be do- ing their share in support of worthy •charities. From the beginning of hostilities in Europe a war relief fund was conducted under the auspices of The Mother Church, and through this fund flowed a steady stream of money and supplies, distributed by repre- sentatives of the church among suf- fering and destitute war victims in many lands. A Substantial Movement The Christian Science Church is a self-sustaining church. It makes no demands on the community at large. It builds handsome church edifices without solicitation of money from outsiders and with little or no such solicitation among its own members. It dedicates its churches free from debt. When the extension to The Mother Church was built a few years ago a simple announcement was mad> of the amount of money need- ed, and before the edifice was ready tor use it was ncccisary to request tl.-t no more motuy be sent in, as < he building fund of two million dol- 1 s was complete i e demand fo." Christian Science ii ,;i are requires constantly en- !ui,.iiig publication facilities. The •up-to-date publishing house in Bos- ton ndw employs seven hundred per- sons. From this house issue all of the works of Mary Baker Eddy, be- sides quarterly, monthly and weekly periodicals, The Christian Science Monitor, a great daily newspaper of world-wide circulation, and quantities of other literature, some of it in eleven languages. I have cited these instances of the widespread development, rapid growth and substantial character of this movement not in a spirit of boastfulness nor of unkindly com- parison, but because of their practic- al value as evidence that Christian Science does heal the sick. A vast majority of its "adherents turned to Christian Science for healing. If it had not heale<Tthem it could* not have held them. Proposing to demonstrate the truth of the Scriptural assurance that salvation from sin and disease is a present fruit of righteousness or right thinking, Christian Science could not have survived on mere promises fo/ the future. It could win only on its immediate and '.anjr'de merits. That is the impelling signi- ficance of its remarkable growth. Thirty'American legislatures, as well as the President of the United States, have recognized the practice of Christian Science by providing that it shall not be subject to medical laws or regulations. The president's recognition was given by President Taft as part of the executive orders for the government of the Panama Canal Zone. I do not mean to imply that there is any lack of legal right to practice Christian Science in any of the other states. Chief Judge Bartlett, of the New York State Court of Appeals, when concurring in a decision of that court, which protected the practice of Christian Science from medical interference, said: "I deny the power of the legis- lature to make it a crime to treat disease by prayer.," The Supreme Court of the United States in a re- cent decision has affirmed the right of a state to distinguish by law be- tween the use of mental suggestion by certain drugless practitioners and the healing of the sick by prayer as practiced in Christian Science. An- other notable recognition is given in the action of the War and Navy De- partments in appointing Christian Scientists as chaplains in the army and navy of the United States. To enable the War Department to do this, an act of Congress was re- quired. Discovery and Foundation What manner of woman was Mary Baker Eddy? It is possible to answer that question by saying that it prob- able never has been asked by a Christian Scientist. One who grasps and applies her teachings sufficient- ly to heal a well-defined case of sick- ness will understand Mrs. Eddy as no one else can. Mrs. Eddy wished to be known as the Discoverer and Founder of Chris- tian Science. She was confident that the textbook that she wrote to set forth the accurate science of Chris- tianity and the church that she es- tablished to cherish and protect it would fully attest her right to that title and would tell the story of her life more clearly than could the most painstaking biography. Her faith in her works as her more than suffi- cient justification was tried as by fire during many years in which she was not permitted very often to forget that the effort to hinder the spread of her teachings would not stop short of trying to make her ap- pear to be personally unworthy to have brought to light anything good and pure. She had challenged ma- terialism in religion, in medicine, in every department of human thought. Materialism was answering the challenge in the only way it knew. Unable to disprove the teaching, it strove to discredit the teacher. Amid storms of misrepresentation that would have appalled a heart less true, she was not persuaded to defend her personality nor to stop loving her Those who undertake to follow Mrs. Eddy in the application of Christian Science to the needs of humanity find that they are success- ful in proportion as they are able to put into their work such God-like qualities as love, courage, diligence, patience, purity, humility, unselfish- ness. In what superlative degree then must these qualities have been_ required of one who could discover this science. In like manner does the Christian Science Church bear testimony to the practical clearsight- edness of the one who individually devised and established its every feature. There will be increasin; appreciation of this as The Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, continu- es to demonstrate its ability to pro- tect pure Christianity from ever again being obscured by a material^ istic and lifeless counterfeit. To re- veal the truth was not enough. It must needs be established in the sight of men. What manner of wom- an was Mrs. Eddy? She was a wom- an worthy and able to be the Dis- coverer and Founder of Christian Science. Thought Some Overlooked. A pim<- of friends was gathered Sew Year's day. After the wint? had Veil passed around there were two Masses left on the tray untouched, fust as we were about to drink my brother-in-law said, "Well, folks, here's to happy days," His little daughter, who had been watching the whole per- formance, pointed to ti»e glasses on the trny and snld, "Dnddy. whose hap- oy days are "these?"â€"Chk-flgo Tribune. WILL HEP SOLDIERS FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS Captain Benjamin K. Hayes, tuber- culosis expert from the United States Army, and T. B. Kidner. late of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, have been added to the staff of the National Tuberculosis association. 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