Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-22
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN GERMANY
Apparently the German government
| is much convened over the rapid spread
of Christian Science, and both kaiser
and reichstag have been discussing
measures for checking it. Christian
Scientists in this county do not seem
greatly wrought up over the matter, II
we may judge from this paragraph in
the Christian Science Sentinel: I'VE
deeply trust that the Germans who are
now opposing Christian Science will
give its claims fair and sincere in
vestigation; that they will satisfy
themselves OF its wonderful healing and
sin destroying works; having done this,
in an understanding way, Christian
issue"
The New York Times gives a very
plausible explanation for the new
growth that might be applied to many
other countries besides Germany.
Changes in material comforts have so
altered affairs among the middle
classes of Germany, especially in the
large cities, that the women lack en-
ployment in their homes. In these con-
ditions the German woman is ready to
fling herself into business or profess
sion, and as the ranks are full, she is
easily turned aside from an effort in
which she encounters the greatest OBJ
stacles in the way of prejudice and the
struggle for bread, and receives Chris
tian Science with open arms. 1t gives
her mind occupation and fiatters the
sense of the mysterious at the same
time. 1t supplies something novel and
personally performed in the way Of a
religious rite for the dry husks with
which the Lutheran and Evangelical
churches have been regaling her. 1t
combines the religious idea with the
spice Of fortune telling and the flavor
of mesmerisnl. Without subjecting her
to the humiliating sense that she is
nonentity whose word and will do not
count, as is the way of many religions
and sects. it places her on a pedestal as
creature in certain ways godlike. in
that by will-power and the force of
prayer she can influence the march Of
events, as, for instance, that she can
restore another person or her own self
to health"
THE STUDENT VOLUNTEER CON-
vENTION.
IOutlook, New York Excerpt
The fourth international convention
OF the student volunteer movement,
held at Toronto, Feb. 26 to March 2,
showed the growing strength as well as
the steady enthusiasm which has
marked the movement from the begin
ming. It's significance is more apparent
If comparison is made of the igno-
rance and indifference which twenty
years ago prevailed in American coll
leges toward Christian missions with
the conditions now existing. An index
of these was the attendance at Toronto
of twenty-six hundred delegates from
nearly eight hundred institutions, In
GLIDING both students and members OF
faculties--nearly twice the number
at the Cleveland conven-
ton in 1898. Mr.. John r. Mott, the
chairman of the executive committee,
fifty described the Toronto meeting as
the hold of Christianity on
the higher schools Of learning, and as
the coming Christian
leadership of the United States and
Canada 1t was, he said. mighty
challenge to the anti missionary spirit,
which had raised it's head because OF
the terrible commissions In northern
China. BY it's inclusion Of over fifty
branches of the church 1T also accented
the essentials unity of the church. A
noticeable feature of these conventions
is the intermingling of older and
younger men, conspicuous leaders of
the churches with the active member
ship Of the movement. and the resulting
blend of sobriety and enthusiasm which
the whole. Bishop Sweat
man referred to the cordial approval
bestowed by the Anglican conference at
Lambeth, and regarded the idea of the