Editorials

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.

The general Communion service of the Christian Science denomination, held annually in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in this city, has been abolished by order of Mrs. Mary Baker G.

As announced at the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church, the Readers elected for the ensuing term of three years are:— First Reader, Judge Clifford P. Smith, LL.

My Beloved Brethren :— When I asked you to dispense with the Executive Members' meeting, the purpose of my request was sacred. It was to turn your sense of worship from the material to the spiritual, the personal to the impersonal, the denominational to the doctrinal, yea, from the human to the divine.

ALL profound thinkers have seen the logical necessity for a concept of being apart from materiality, but with great pertinacity the majority of mortals have clung to the belief of a soul in body and partaking of the nature of the material rather than the spiritual. Not so long ago the possible location of the soul—whether it dwelt in the heart or the brain—was frequently discussed, sometimes in public debate, but little attention was given to its nature and potentiality.

THE slight changes which have been made in the design of the seal on the cover of Science and Health and our Leader's other books, as well as on the Journal, Der Herold, and the Quarterly, have given rise to some speculation and inquiry, and the following extract from one of the many letters which have been received at this office indicates the nature of this speculation:— "In view of the remarks I have heard in regard to the changed proportions of the cross and crown on the new cover for the Journal, I wish we might have an editorial setting forth the real signification of the cross. Is there too much looking for reward in proportion to the overcoming?" Perhaps it is just as well to say at once that there is no intentional significance in the changed proportions of the cross and crown as redrawn, and that the artist simply made them of the relative sizes that seemed to him right and artistic.

WHATEVER else may be recorded of the period through which religious thought is now passing, it is sure to be referred to as an age of skepticism. Never before in all the Christian centuries have things both secular and sacred been subjected to such ungloved investigation.

Brookline, Mass. , May 1.

Box G, Brookline, Mass. , May 15, 1908.

When the By-law was passed to exclude scholars above a certain age from the Sabbath School it was requisite, and when the spiritual point at issue was attained the older members were invited and received into the Sabbath School. Mary Baker G.