aspiration as the smaller edifice in its embrace represents Christian Science faith. And more important than the mere grandeur of the temple, more typical of the Scientists' manner of accomplishing things are the facts that the great church was built in two years and was free of debt at every stage of its construction. From out ten thousand purses flashed the golden tributes. of love and gratitude that made this achievement unique in the world's history.

Slowly enough, however, the Christian Science movement emerged from Boston in its early days. In 1889, ten years after the founding of the first organization, there were only eleven. churches to fan into flame the latent fires of the faith. But the fanning was. effective, the blaze ever increasing in warmth. A decade more saw three hundred and one churches; at the time the great temple in Boston was dedi

cated (1906) there were six hundred. and fifty-seven and two hundred and seventy-five societies not organized as churches. There is to-day an impressive total of seven hundred and fortythree churches and four hundred and forty-one societies, making one thou-. sand one hundred and eighty-four societies holding church services. In almost every important city of the land at least one handsome edifice stands as a monument to a very genuine affection-and in some there are more. New York has six Christian Science churches, Chicago nine, San Francisco three, Denver three, Hartford and New Haven two each, Indianapolis two, Topeka two, Baltimore two, Minneapolis six, Kansas City three, Omaha two, Albany two, Brooklyn three, Cleveland three, Portland, Ore., two, Pittsburg two, Providence two, Salt Lake City two, Seattle four, and so it goes. New churches are organizing from so

is education of the best sort in the noble auditorium of the temple in Boston, or in the exquisite lines of the new church in Los Angeles.

It was said in the beginning of this study that Christian Science was world-wide. That statement needs no qualifying, for it is common knowledge. Yet it is surprising to find to what extent it is true. There is hardly a meridian of the globe where a little band of believers intensely in earnest does not gather together on Sundays and Wednesdays to proclaim anew their allegiance to the faith. The stolid Boer of Johannesburg may witness this if he chooses; the slant-eyed Celestial of Hong Kong may listen and marvel; the little brown folk of the Philip

will show that membership is made up of the good, sound, average body of citizens, the "plain people" that Lincoln held in his great heart. They are well-to-do as a rule, intelligent to a noteworthy degree, companionable friends, good neighbors. It is also true that the churches contain their due proportion-perhaps a bit moreof men of distinction in all walks of

men and physicians, who might be considered to be most unlikely to be affected, are coming to it in ever-increasing numbers each year.

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Statistics are notoriously things, but the following table may well be considered as out of the ordinary category. It It was compiled for the New England Magazine, and contains facts obtained from the di