CHAPTER VI.
"Hungry ones throng to hear the Bible read in connection with the text-book of Christian Science, Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker G.Eddy.These are our only preachers.

They are the word of God." "Christian Science Journal", October, 1898.
Is that picturesque?
A lady has told me that in a chapel of the Mosque in Boston there is a picture or image of Mrs.Eddy, and that before it burns a never-extinguished light.

Is that picturesque?
How long do you think it will be before the Christian Scientist will be worshipping that picture or image and praying to it?
How long do you think it will be before it is claimed that Mrs.Eddy is a Redeemer, a Christ, and Christ's equal?
Already her army of disciples speak of her reverently as "Our Mother." How long will it be before they place her on the steps of the Throne beside the Virgin--and, later, a step higher?
First, Mary the Virgin and Mary the Matron; later, with a change of precedence, Mary the Matron and Mary the Virgin.

Let the artist get ready with his canvas and his brushes; the new Renaissance is on its way, and there will be money in altar-canvases--a thousand times as much as the Popes and their Church ever spent on the Old Masters; for their riches were poverty as compared with what is going to pour into the treasure-chest of the Christian-Scientist Papacy by-and-by, let us not doubt it.

We will examine the financial outlook presently and see what it promises.