●   ●   ●    There was something fairly asinine in Mark Twain’s own prediction that by 1920 there would be ten million Christian Scientists in the United States, that by 1940 they would be “the governing power in the Republic” and the “Christian Science Trust” would have become “the most insolent and unscrupulous and tyrannical politico-religious master that has dominated a people since the palmy days of the Inquisition”—a master which “after a generation or two” would “probably divide Christendom with the Catholic Church. ” 120 Mrs.