Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-03-02

opened its doors to the world.
Today" cabled Mrs. Eddy. "a ma
ton is born. Spiritual apprehension
unfolds. transfigures. heals. With YOU
be there no more sea, no ebbing faith.
mountain of Israel. God will multiply
thee" Those We're prophetic words.
for the congregation at Bryanston
street soon overlooked the seats and
aisles. and a site was purchased in
fashionable Sloane Terrace. and the
First church in London was built on
ground formerly occupied by a Wes-
leyan chapel. Then Aeolian hall vas
hired for the Second church, a Third
church was built at Richmond. and
in Dublin. Belfast. Manchester. I4iv-
erpool. n in innumerable villages
and private houses services were be-
ing held.
Among the first was the
Earl of Dunmore. Shortly afterwards
Lady Victoria Murray lent impetus to
the movement by declaring that she
had been cured of tuberculosis by
Christian Science treatment. In graf
tude she abandoned her social our
suits n went to Manchester to found
a church. Christian Science %biograph-
ers say that she Immediately made a
phenomenal cure of the little son Of a
Manchester physician, and thereafter
her task of gaining followers was
comparatively easy. At the present
time the church founded by her in
Manchester has some 500 members. and
within a few miles of thai busy man
ufacturing city there are more than
a score of societies holding regular
semi-weekly services.
Fourteen years ago one little church
With a seating capacity of 200. and a
score or so of members, represented all
rharn u-ac Of C1,yictjo o;a~aA ~, >pC
land. Today that n meeting place
has grown to over a hundred. and the
handful of members into tens of thou
sands. They are to be found in the
naval and military centers. in the
pleasure cities along the coast. in
and even in the universities. TAX
ing root in Scotland and Ireland also.
the cult has progressed there. to the
utter disnlay of the established church.
es. Notable mons the English arts
tocracy who have in the last few years
taken up the Eddy religion, and are
influence in the British empire. as
Lady Alice Archer Houblin. Lady
Francis A~shbourne. Lady Louise King
Warehouses of Bath, Larry Bromley,
Fleet-SurgeOn Rogers, and Lieutenant
Colonel w. E. Fell.
Germany came next. When Chris
lidA SoClellCc lIISl appeared IN Berlin
in 1901 the established clergy made a
determined stand against it, and in
voked the aid of the kaiser, who in
tervened to stop it's spread to what he
termed 1.-The higher Circles But, as
elsewhere. the cult tllrived wondrously
on opposition, and today it has a state
ly church on the Lutherstrasse itself
In Dresden also there is a Christian
Science church. and there are meet
ing houses in Hanover, Frankfort and
many smaller places.
If Mrs. Eddy had cause to tremble at
the possibilities of mental assassination
so far back as 1882, when a mere hand
full of her followers were engaged in the
business of healing the sick BY trans.
ference of thought. how huch more
have we cause for alarm at the contem-
plation Of disaster to body and mind
through mental malpractice by black
sheep in the ranks of the five thousand
healers now scattered throughout the
world, each capable, according to Mrs
Eddy. of perverting his power for COCO
into the lines of evil without let or hin.
drance: each capable, according to Mrs
Eddy, of misusing his freedom from the
beliefs Of sense, to commit mental assas.
ination. to influence jurfes. to cause q re.
lapse OF former diseases and produce new
ones in his helpless patients, and of other.
wise dealing mercilessly with a com.
munity unprepared for self defense?" Be.
side such an invisible Frankenstein as thi,
the terrible monster OF Mrs. Shelley's ro
nance fades into insignifcance.
When we look for an explanation of thf