Editorials

Mrs. Mary Baker G.

FROM both the secular and religious press we learn that the bishops of the English Church have admitted the need of healing as practised in the early days of Christianity. It seems, however, that anointing with oil is held to be a necessary adjunct of the healing, and this naturally raises the question whether it was an accompaniment of the apostolic work.

At every advancing footstep, Truth is still opposed with sword and spear. — Science and Health, p.

Considerable space is given in the Christian Science Sentinel of Nov. 3 and 10 to a refutation of the reports concerning Mrs.

Mr. Alfred Farlow's article in the New York American needs correction.

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. Mr.

The thought of getting or of making the spiritual out of the material, either directly or through an effort to etherealize its nature, the belief in the salvability of every sense of life, no matter how false or degraded it may be,—this is one of the crowning mistakes of the centuries. This mistake originates in the failure to discriminate between mortal man and immortal man, and it is well illustrated in the following clerical query, which we copy from a religious exchange: "Cannot God reclaim the most stubborn and depraved of His children?" It is manifest that in any undertaking the mental concept and attitude respecting the nature of the work to be accomplished is of the highest significance, and in no respect, perhaps, does Christian Science present a greater contrast to general religious opinion than in its rejection of the long prevailing idea that mortal man is to be made over into immortal man, and in its insistence that redemption is not the change of evil into good, but rather the destruction of a false mortal sense and all its claims, the removal of that mask of the material which to human sense hides the spiritual, the kingdom of heaven and man.

Our Leader has said of the Christian Science platform (Science and Health, pp. 330–340), "When the following platform is understood, and the letter and the Spirit bear witness, the infallibility of divine metaphysics will be demonstrated," and we are reminded of this by the misstatements of the letter which so frequently appear in the writings of Christian Scientists.

The Bible is the learned man's masterpiece, the ignorant man's dictionary, the wise man's directory. —Mrs.

Toward the close of St. Paul's famous discourse on Mars' hill, he pointed to the passing of the time when ignorance of God should serve as an excuse for idolatry of any sort, and he added, God "hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.