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 been tainted with the flavor of this Christian Science delusion, under the supposition that it is Christian. It is woful to behold the havoc this dangerous, and now menacing, deception has already accomplished; for it is one of the severest threats that have appeared against the stability of our modern civilization; and, if not overcome, its power for evil is incalculable.

As to what Christian Science really is, it is difficult to give a definition. In the book of Mrs. Eddy, the chief apostle and founder of the cult, it is not easy to get a clear and comprehensive idea, on account of the great obscurity of the language and the generally unsatisfactory arrangement of all the material.

However, in a more or less definite way, we learn that it is a philosophy holding entirely to a subjective theory of the universe; that it is a religion, whose creeds exalt the importance and all-sufficiency of self, making the subjective Ego the centre of all phenomena, equal with and not to be differentiated from God, yet claiming to be founded in the spirit and true doctrine of Jesus Christ; and that it is also a society of professional healers, who