Pulpit and Press/Preface
PREFACE
THIS volume contains scintillations from press and
pulpit — utterances which epitomize the story of the
birth of Christian Science, in 1866, and its progress
during the ensuing thirty years. Three quarters of a
century hence, when the children of to-day are the elders
of the twentieth century, it will be interesting to have
not only a record of the inclination given their own
thoughts in the latter half of the nineteenth century,
but also a registry of the rise of the mercury in the glass
of the world's opinion.
It will then be instructive to turn backward the telescope of that advanced age, with its lenses of more spiritual mentality, indicating the gain of intellectual momentum, on the early footsteps of Christian Science as planted in the pathway of this generation; to note the impetus thereby given to Christianity; to con the facts surrounding the cradle of this grand verity — that the sick are healed and sinners saved, not by matter, but by Mind; and to scan further the features of the vast problem of eternal life, as expressed in the absolute power of Truth and the actual bliss of man's existence in Science.
February, 1895