Editorials

IT was to be expected that the late Pan-Anglican Conference, including as it did the representatives of one of the most intelligent bodies of Christian believers, would give a prominent place to those subjects which are of the greatest moment to the Christian Church and the civilized world, and it is therefore interesting to note that the two topics which awakened altogether the profoundest attention were those of Christian Socialism and Christian Science. The extended discussion of the nature of the social unrest and impulse of the present hour, and of the proper relation of Christian thought and activity thereto, elicited a great variety of opinions, and, withal, not a little conflict of judgment.

IN studying the Old Testament we find that the name Jehovah (I AM; the eternal living one) was not used until Moses had advanced sufficiently in his understanding of the Supreme Being to enable him to begin the work of leading his people out of Egyptian bondage. This name was held very sacred by the Hebrew people, as representing their great deliverer and supreme Lawgiver, but in time its significance was obscured by anthropomorphism, in which, to quote Mrs.

IT is a pleasure to announce to our subscribers and readers that this number of the Journal is issued from the new building of The Christian Science Publishing Society, a building which has been erected through the contributions of Christian Scientists all over the world, and of which they with us may justly be proud. We feel sure it will be a source of gratification to these friends to learn that through their generosity adequate accommodations have at last been secured for the publication of Science and Health and the other writings of Mrs.

Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy , Leader of the Christian Science movement, will hereafter abandon her much-talked-of "daily" drives, and instead will drive out only when her work makes no urgent demand on her time.

Will our readers kindly bear in mind that the work at headquarters is necessarily divided into departments, also that by referring to the advertising pages of the Journal and Sentinel they will be able to ascertain the person or persons to whom their correspondence should be addressed in order to avoid delay. The Christian Science Publishing Society publishes and sells The Christian Science Journal, the Christian Science Sentinel, The Christian Science Quarterly, Der Herold der Christian Science, besides Bibles, pamphlets, reprints, also other miscellaneous publications fully listed in our advertising pages.

The average Christian materialist would stoutly deny, no doubt, that his belief in the reality of matter and his acceptance of the philosophy of material evolution rules God out of the universe. He would insist that God uses matter simply as a means of expression, of effectiveness upon the plane of present human sense; that God is ever in and working through material substance and natural law to will and to do of His good pleasure.

The International Congregational Council which recently convened in Edinburgh was a most interesting religious event, and one of the most impressive utterances on this occasion was a sermon by Dr. George A.

We have been asked about certain unpublished manuscripts said to have been written by Mrs. Eddy in the early years of her discovery of Christian Science.

WHEN Christ Jesus counseled his little band of followers that they "fear not;" when he said, "Lo, I am with you alway," he no doubt intended to comfort them at a time when they were overwhelmed with the thought of what it would mean to face the world without him. He was moved with that compassion which ever led him to enter so sympathetically into the heart-struggle of humanity.

NEVER before in the religious history of the world has the question of likeness to God been considered and discussed as it has since the advent of Christian Science. Prior to that time, the opinion seemed to prevail to a large extent that mortal man was the "image" and "likeness" referred to in the Bible, and here logic was dropped to make room for mere belief, since it is axiomatic that an effect can never be unlike its cause.