Editorials

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.

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.

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

Beloved Students: — Rest assured that your Leader is living, loving, acting, enjoying. She is neither dead nor plucked up by the roots, but she is keenly alive to the reality of living, and safely, soulfully founded upon the Rock, Christ Jesus, even the spiritual idea of Life with its abounding, increasing, advancing footsteps of progress, primeval faith, hope, love.

Since Mrs. Eddy is watched, as one watches a criminal or a sick person, she begs to say, in her own behalf, that she is neither; therefore to be criticized or judged by either a daily drive or a dignified stay at home, is superfluous.

IT would be difficult to designate a teaching of Christ Jesus upon which he laid greater emphasis than upon the thought that no man can serve two masters, that it is quite impossible to follow the right and the wrong, the truth and the error, about anything. No sane person questions the correctness of this teaching, and the self-respect of every honest man must impel him to blame himself alone for every ill resulting from his indifference to it.

AS we read in the Bible and in secular history of the struggles of mankind to reach the light, we can but be impressed by the fact that their failure to go steadily forward has ever been due to the tendency to cling to materiality, to regard it as essential to their happiness if not to their very existence. Freedom, seen from any view-point, is a mental or spiritual idea, and is only attained as material fetters are thrown off one after another,—the pride, the luxury, the indolence, the greed; all the lusts which spring from the false belief that man is material as well as spiritual, if not wholly material.

There seems to be a thought with many who write letters of appreciation and gratitude to our Leader, for the benefits derived through her teachings, that their letters may never be seen nor read by her. This is not the case.

Mrs. Mary Baker G.