The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-07-09
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
CATHEDRAL
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Boston Transcript thanks the Chris
tan-Science for zone of the finest ar
chitectural achievements i'm this or any
other city" and suggests that other de-
nominations might profit by their eX-
ample of paying for their church be-
fore defeating it. In a like spirit Of
friendlincss the Brooklyn Eagle asserts
that the stoutest enemies Of Chris
tian Science will confess at least an
esthetic debt TO that cult since It
has erected one Of the largest and
seemliest churches i'm America to sym
bolize chat faith which is so much
a faith that all facts inhospitable to it
are deemed by its professors not to
exist at all BY way of description it
adds:
THE cathedral is of light stone, with
dome over 22O feet high, a chime of
bells. and one Of the largest organs in
the world. The architect has joined
lightness and grace to solidity, and the
edifce needs only an open space about
it. such as one finds in the English
cathedral. to achieve it's extreme of
beauty. A sect that leaves such a mon
ument has not lived in vain"
The New York Times which is known
for its active hostility toward Christian
Science, thinks that every reasonable
and weu-informed American" must
have been panied by reading of the de-
dication of such church, erected at
such a cost. 1t goes on to say.
"Of the thronging thousands who
celebrated the triumph of imposture in
Boston, it is not an eXaggeratiOn to say
that some ought to have been in jail,
some in lunatic asylums, and the rest
in some school where they might be
taught to think straighter than they
have yet been educated to do,
"The irony of fate upset an automo-
bile load of these dupes in Boston it.
self on the day of the dedication Some
suffered fractures and some contusions
manifest LESSONS with which hypnotic
suggestion could do nothing, but which
required surgical treatment. But the
strength of their delusion was proved
by the fact that they all, with one ac-
cord, insisted that there was nothing
the matter with them mat singing
Mrs. Eddy's newest hymn. shepherd,
Show Me How to Co. would not cure.
One exception there was. An unfor-
tunate Christian Scientist was convinc-
ed. by the protrusion of the bone of his
leg from the flesh, that he had better
go to the hospital instead of relying
upon his faith to make him whole. In
consequence of his tardy conviction
that in this particular case a surgeon
could better than a shepherd show
him how to go he is doubtless groan-
ed over as backslider in Eddyite cir
cles. But he will doubtless, in a merely
physical sense, walk straighter hereaf-
ter for having his leg looked after by a
surgeon than if he had merely sub
mitted his protruding bone to Chris
| tian Science "
| The Brooklyn Eagle perceives in the
vigorous state and bewilIering growth
| of this new sect "a promise of rivalry
with Rome" The Evening Post, on the
contrary, is "inclined to believe that
| Christian Science has reached its Gull
mination;" that it may even disappear
in the New Thought" a cult whose cen
| trail tenet The Post sums up in the as
sertion, THE world is Iovely, and l
am lovely too" To quote further:
"The number of converts may in
crease, and Peters pence may for a