Editorials

Christian Scientists cannot help being pleased at the free discussion of Christian Science which is finding a place in the English newspapers at the present time, a recent issue of the London Telegraph having no fewer than seven lengthy letters on this subject. Following the excellent letter of the Publication Committee, some of these were adverse and several of them grievously misstated the teaching of Christian Science, but they recall Paul's statement, that he rejoiced whenever Christ was preached, even though it were "of contention" and of "envy and strife" in some cases.

ONE of the least understood sayings of the great Teacher, and one very often quoted, is this: "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. " It has usually been taken to mean that the majority of mankind were destined to endure eternal separation from God, and that "few" can be "saved.

What the human mind terms matter and spirit indicates states and stages of consciousness. — Mrs.

THE utter collapse Aug. 21 of the suit involving charges against Mrs.

It has commonly been thought that one needs to become religious in order to be good, but there is a most significant sense in which one must be good in order to become religious. Loyalty to ethical perception must precede spiritual apprehension.

The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick. — Isaiah.

Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.

[ The interview granted by Mrs. Eddy to Arthur Brisbane, representing the Cosmopolitan , has called forth much favorable comment, and we quote from The Boston American the following editorial, which appeared under the title, "Mrs.

In an age when the achievements of philosophical investigation and inventive genius are so wondrous, when the triumph of Mind over matter is witnessed to in so many ways, and the so-called civilization of the more advanced nations is rapidly supplanting the untutored life of the indigenous races, it is not surprising that human reason should come to be regarded by many as "the key to the kingdom,"—the means by which all problems are to be solved, all difficulties overcome, all ills relieved, so that the race may find itself and come into the fulness of its own. The repose of this confidence can but be disturbed, however, by the fact that intellectuality is not found to have any necessary affiliation with virtue, that gain in so-called rationality and in the control of material conditions is not infrequently attended by an increased indulgence of those appetites and impulses which indicate moral weakness and degeneracy, so that it becomes a serious question whether after all the asserted advance of civilization has been genuine or merely a seeming.

Prominent among the questions which to-day challenge the attention of thinking people is the demand for civic righteousness, with all it implies. So much of un-righteousness has been uncovered of late years that its long concealed hideousness has brought the needed recoil, now that men are face to face with it, and pulpit and press unite in condemning dishonesty and corruption in high places.