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Show CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST DEFENDS HIS RELIGION OGDEN, April 0. Editor Tribune: There appeared In Inst Sunday's Tribune Trib-une a special from Boston, In which your correspondent, in an effort to warn the Mormons against Christian Scientists, so.ys somo tilings that might be very misleading. Your correspondent tells of the wonderful won-derful growth of tho Christian Science movoment in Utah, and refers to It as a "cult." Christian Science is moro than a "cult;" it Is Christianity, tho religion re-ligion of Jesus Christ, proven to be such by the 111 who are healed and the tinners reformed through its uplifting and regenerating Influence. Its work is not accomplished Insidiously, but is performed In tho open, and is, as was that of the blessed Master, "not to call tho righteous, but sinners, to repentance." repent-ance." The religious nature in man has in all ages cried out for something higher and more satisfying than that which has been presorted in traditional, material ma-terial forms of religious worship; so it should not seem surprising tkat the progressive religionists, a well as others, finds in the divine metaphysics of Christian Science that which "sat-isfleth "sat-isfleth the longing soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness." Christian Science Is distinctly tho religion re-ligion of love: love for God and man is the ruling thought in the consciousness conscious-ness of the Christian Scientist, and because be-cause of this he has no fight with people peo-ple who do not believe as ho dos. The headquarters of the Christian Science movement is In Boston, Mass., where Is located the mother church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of which tho several hundred churches of the denomination all over the country are branches. The branch churches are Independent In their church government, making their own rules for self-government, which are always In harmony with the rules of the mother church. Members of tha branch churches may be members mem-bers of the mother church also, and many of them are. M. H. LINCICOME. |