Editorials

The following statement in regard to the Charitable Fund of one million dollars established by Mrs. Mary Baker G.

While not an acknowledged Christian Scientist, Miss Clara Barton to-day talked with me regarding this wonderful cult in a manner which left no doubt that the great woman patriot is greatly interested in the subject, and in Mrs. Eddy, its Founder.

In the New York American , Jan. 6, 1908, Miss Clara Barton dipped her pen in my heart, and traced its emotions, motives, and object.

In a very true and important sense salvation may be regarded as progressive self-discovery. The process pertains to human sense and will ultimately eliminate its every false and unideal factor when the true consciousness or Christ-man shall have appeared.

At the threshold of another year we pause to give thanks for the lessons of the one just past and to prepare ourselves for the greater lessons which invite us to go forward. The true student of history can never fail to see in human events what President Bonney, at the World's Parliament of Religions, in 1894, called "the interposition of divine Providence in human affairs.

It is with profound sympathy that we record the passing away of our beloved associate and brother, Joseph Armstrong, C. S.

The announcement made in the Sentinel of Dec. 21 that Mrs.

Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.

An earnest student writes to me: "Would it be asking too much of you to explain more fully why you call Christian Science the higher criticism?" I called Christian Science the higher criticism in my Dedicatory Message to The Mother Church, June 10, 1906, when I said, "This Science is a law of divine Mind, .

The late lamented Christian Scientist brother and the publisher of my books, Joseph Armstrong, C. S.