Editorials

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.

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

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.

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.

Spirit and matter neither concur in man, nor in the universe,throughout the infinite cycles of eternal existence. — Science and Health, p.

Those who do not understand Christian Science are sometimes prone to believe that its followers are at war with the physicians, and that they even cherish a sense of personal antagonism toward them, but this is not true. At the time of the recent Communion and the dedication of the Extension of The Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, some of the newspaper paragraphers were inclined to make merry over the fact that the Christian Scientists were arriving in Boston before the physicians in attendance upon the convention of the American Medical Association had departed, and the reason for this merriment was the supposed personal enmity between these two classes.

MRS. EDDY says, "Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the center, though not the boundary of the affections" (Science and Health, p.

IT has been said of our Sunday services and Wednesday evening meetings that they are so correlated as to be in reality a single service, and that this harmonious blending of the two is recognized even by those who are not Christian Scientists, is shown by an article in a recent issue of The Church World, written by a contributor who visited The Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, and who was greatly impressed by the large midsummer congregations which she saw there. She says that she "could not think that the Sunday service alone explained the hold of their belief upon them, though they evidently appreciated the opportunity to worship together.