Articles

A most beneficent charity is the establishment of a Kindergarten for the Blind. A Roxbury estate has been bought, and before long buildings will be ready for occupancy.

The deepest religious seer, who ever spoke on earth, charged the ecclesiastical functionaries of his day with making the commandment of God of no effect by their traditions. All over Christendom a cumbrous mass of doctrines and ceremonies has thrust aside the pure and simple teaching of Jesus, and again made the commandment of God of no effect, because of priestly traditions.

Whatever man sees, feels, or takes cognizance of, must be caught through mind, inasmuch as perception, sensation and consciousness belong to mind, and not to matter. Floating with the popular current of mortal thought, without questioning the reliability of its conclusions, we do what others do, believe what others believe, and say what others say.

When Jesus began his ministry of the gospel, his teaching and healing excited not only opposition, but the wondering inquiry of a large number; and, when the nature of the worldly-minded is taken into consideration, it is not surprising that attempts were made to counterfeit his works. To arrive at an understanding and demonstration of the Science of Life, even through a study of the character of Him who is the Life of the world, requires something more than a smattering of the rules of Christian Science, and vastly more than the knowledge of mind-cure, mesmerism, magnetism, mediumship, psychopathy, or of all the isms combined.

Though differing widely, in many fundamental points, the churches of all Christendom strike one keynote in unison,—that heaven, or harmony, is to be reached only through Jesus of Nazareth. The arguments and strife of centuries have not been raised over the righteousness of this conviction, but as to the ways and means by which we are to follow him.

He who identifies himself with that phase of healing called Mind-cure, let it be remembered, is taking an attitude before the public of one who says, "I can kill, as well as cure. " If he does this he commences with little evils, and goes on until he breaks all the commandments.

Rev. Joseph Cook is receiving a hearty belaboring for what is called, by the Eastern press, an "ill-humored and ill-timed onslaught " on the Andover profesors, at the late missionary meeting in Boston.

John Fiske's last book bears this title, and was his essay at the Concord School of Philosophy. The purpose of the present review is not to praise the volume's typography,—for all Houghton, Mifflin & Go's, books are good specimens of "the art preservative,"—nor yet to compliment the crystalline quality of its thought, for of this the author's name is a guaranty; but to show the connection of this book with Christian Science, as believed and set forth by Mrs.

The Boston Traveller had a good word to say of our Journal:— The December number of the Christian Science Journal is published. This magazine aims to give what it considers the most advanced thought of the day upon religious and scientific subjects; as it belongs to no sect, it believes itself in a position to draw the best from all denominations, its end and aim being "to draw man nearer to God, nearer to health and holiness.

Although my Christmas Thanks had gone into type, I return to make another heart-felt bow, for the following additional gifts:— From Bradford Sherman, C. S.