Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-11-18
REV. MR.. M'kENZIE AND CHRIS.
.- TIAN SCIENCE.

cred at the theatre last Sunday night
to hear Rev. Mr.. McKenzie's lecture
on Christian Science is convincing
proof that large and increasing
number Of people are interested in
this new religion or philosophy. This
being so, it may be worth while to
take some space in. Truth to examine
its claims of superiority to other
forms of religion and to discover, il
possible, the reason for it's rapid
growth.
Promulgated only thirty years ago
by Mrs. Mary Baker e. Eddy it has
gained adherents in every country on
the globe. It's teachers and healers
are numbered by the thousands. It's
churches are numerous and beautiful
and no difficulty is experienced in
raising the money to build these cost
ly edifices and they are always dedi-
Gated free from debt. It's member
ship includes the most intellectual
and intelligent people in the commu-
nifty and it's leaders are among the
brainiest of jurists, scholars, writer's
and professional men. The congrega-
tions which crowd it's churches are
happy, cheerful and apparently pros
porous people, proving that their ~.
ligion is certainly not a gloomy one.
What is the secret of its marvellous
growth and it's ready acceptance by
even; the brightest minds? 1t is not
due to eloquent preachers, for its SER
vices consist only of singing, prayer,
and the reading of the bible and the
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and Health" 1t does no proselyting
nor does it seek to attract attention by
street preaching and clashing GYM
bols, yet it has grown more proper
tionately in the past twenty-five years
than, any other denomination. There
must be reason for this. Zoo
Perhaps the first one is that it is a
religion of the world. 1t doesn't
future life. 1t seeks to make him
healthy, happy and prosperous in this
life. Its conception of God as a pres
ent help in sickness and trouble of
every kind is quite different from that
of other churches, for while they all
profess faith in God none of them
practice it to the extent Christian
Scientists do. .-
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were first attracted to Christian
Science by its power of healing dis
ease. Many of them were in the last
stages of long continued and APP
parently incunable disease. They
were healed and what wonder that
they should become the most ardent
believers in the doctrines of Chris
ton Science? That they have effect
ID hA
can doubt who is familiar with their
literature or who has attended their
Wednesday night testimony meetings.
Cancer, consumption, Bright's disease
and other so-called incurable maladies
have yielded to, their theatment, and
while one, hears only of the cures eff
fected I doubt whether they have as
great a proportion of failures as there
are in ordinary medical practice.
Yet the cures they effect are no
more wonderful than those made by
other means. Patent medicines and
prescriptions by physicians in which
there is absolutely no virtue, have
effected astonishing cures. Roman
Catholic shrines and relics have made
the lame to walk, the blind to see and
have cured apparently incurable dis
eases. The records of the medical
profession show that the disease
known as Kings Evil has been
cured by the patient touching even the