The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-07-01

papered. The child had died with
out any physicians care, but after it
was lost, while they would not ac-
knowledge that it had died of an in
fectious disease, they would not oc-
cupy the rooms again until they had
been completely renovated.
The family most prominently iden-
tilted with the movement in my field
is now almost extinct. Except the
parents, not one reached middle age.
Five or six members of the house
hold died in swift succession, one by
lingering and excruciating disease
which racked and tortured her in
every limb. But to the end she
would never admit that she had ever
felt pain. Her sister, who had led
her into this delusion, was soon after
taken to an asylum for the insane.
Her mind had given way under the
strain. Yet nothing was the mat
ter" as the few survivors still insist.
One of my neighbors recently went
to attend Mrs. Eddy's Jubilee. +"
He and his wife were full of joy.
They had discovered the secret of
immortal youth. They and the party
with them had bought diamond
tiara for their "mother." The poor
fellow left the diamond crown East,
but he brought his wife back-in a
coffin. When anyone asks me ''What
do you think of Christian Science? ?"
/ answer, lust what any man must
think of it who has been burying its
adult dupes and its infant victims for
twenty-five years"
Just now there is tendency upon
the part of the people managing the
affairs of the society, for it is close
corporation, and while everything is
done in the name of the ''discoverer, "
observant persons realize that there
exists a secret cabinet which controls
the policy of the whole order-there
is tendency to make of it sort of
high-muck-a-muck club, an exclusive
affair to which only the "illuminal''
with plenty of cash and jewels shall
be welcomed. The houses of wor-
ship are built with a view to social
requirements, with spacious vesti-
bules, commodious cloak-rooms and
elegant parlors. The cost of these
things is kept profound secret. The
Church" never passes the hat and
never makes a report. 1t is given
out that money flows like water. But
personally, I happen to know from
the bank that there is a bonded debt
of $125 900 upon one of these $780,
600 marble structures just approach
ing completion. The attendants in
this "Church of Christ, Scientist,
hatter themselves that they form an
exclusive and learned coterie, whose
social standing is attested by the MINI
Der of carriages at the door. They
do not realize, and probably never
will realize, that every time an edu-
Gated man reads "Church of Christ
Scientist" he has little laugh over
the pretentious and sham learning of
its founder, who doesn't know noun
from an adjective when she sees it,
not even when chiseled in marble.
Well, like the other mushroom
growths, it will have its day and cease
to be. Its first generation is now
rapidly dying off, and the second ap-
pear far more intent upon its society
features than interested in its thera-
peutic virtues; and as it from the
first denied the reality of sin or the
need of Saviour, it never ranked as
religious organization. Its only
pertuity lies along the line of its snob-
berry. This is now becoming almost
as ridiculous as its metaphysics"
and when it does finally disappear it
will die amid the inextinguishable
laughter of the world. II. D. /en-
kinS, d. D.