A favorite subject of the new Old Master will be the first verse of the twelfth chapter of Revelation--a verse which Mrs.Eddy says (in her Annex to the Scriptures) has "one distinctive feature which has special reference to the present age"-- and to her, as is rather pointedly indicated: "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet," etc.
The woman clothed with the sun will be a portrait of Mrs.Eddy.
Is it insanity to believe that Christian-Scientism is destined to make the most formidable show that any new religion has made in the world since the birth and spread of Mohammedanism, and that within a century from now it may stand second to Rome only, in numbers and power in Christendom?
If this is a wild dream it will not be easy to prove it so just yet, I think.

There seems argument that it may come true.

The Christian-Science "boom," proper, is not yet five years old; yet already it has two hundred and fifty churches.
It has its start, you see, and it is a phenomenally good one.

Moreover, it is latterly spreading with a constantly accelerating swiftness.

It has a better chance to grow and prosper and achieve permanency than any other existing "ism"; for it has more to offer than any other.