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 and encouragement thus afforded him, and to hazard the hope that the arguments set down herein may reach a still wider circle of readers, and prove of some further benefit to the cause of humanity, and sane thinking.

Christian Science is a thing we can no longer ignore. It is a force that must be seriously reckoned with. It therefore behooves those who know what it is, who comprehend what it stands for, who perceive the pitiful results it will lead to—to expose its flagrant inconsistencies and to stimulate a more searching inquiry into its transgression of the law in the province of medical practice.

The writer, by this treatise, hopes to be of some service to that large class of people to whom the Christian Scientist is constantly making appeal, and who may not at first understand how dangerous to themselves and to civilization is this modern delusion—by giving them an exposition of what Christian Science really is, by warning them of the fallacy of its teaching, and by depicting the suffering it would cause to humanity if its practice should become prevalent.