[Christian Science by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookChristian Science CHAPTER VII 5/14
And I have a case among my statistics where the student had a three weeks' course and paid three hundred for it. The Trust does love the Dollar, when it isn't a spiritual one. In order to force the sale of Mrs Eddy's Bible-Annex, no healer, Metaphysical-College-bred or other, is allowed to practice the game unless he possesses a copy of that book.
That means a large and constantly augmenting income for the Trust.
No C.S.family would consider itself loyal or pious or pain-proof without an Annex or two in the house.
That means an income for the Trust, in the near future, of millions; not thousands-millions a year. No member, young or old, of a branch Christian-Scientist church can acquire and retain membership in the Mother-Church unless he pay "capitation tax" (of "not less than a dollar," say the By-Laws) to the Boston Trust every year.
That means an income for the Trust, in the near future, of--let us venture to say--millions more per year. It is a reasonably safe guess that in America in 1920 there will be ten million Christian Scientists, and three millions in Great Britain; that these figures will be trebled in 1930; that in America in 1920 the Christian Scientists will be a political force, in 1930 politically formidable, and in 1940 the governing power in the Republic--to remain that, permanently.
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