Editorials

[The following loving greeting was received by our Leader from the General Association of Teachers of England, through the Earl of Dunmore, Secretary of the Association. Our readers will rejoice in this report of "greater unity and love.

Do Christian Scientists love God so much as they love mankind? Aye, that's the question; let us examine it for ourselves. Thinking of person implies that one is not thinking of Principle, and fifty telegrams per holiday signal such thinking.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road, And be a friend to man. Sam Walter Foss.

AS we scan the pages of history which tell of the struggles of mankind for some measure of liberty, we may recall the words of the centurion who, in referring to the price paid for the privileges of Roman citizenship, said,— "With a great sum obtained I this freedom. " It is readily seen that freedom can never be obtained by mortals without the sacrifice of much that they count dear,—the pity is that so many pay a tremendous price for that which only disappoints in the possession, while the fact that the struggle goes on, that the quest continues, is proof that something deserving of the name really exists, and that it is worth all it may cost.

The false belief as to what really constitutes life so detracts from God's character and nature, that the true sense of His power is lost to all who cling to this falsity. — Science and Health, p.

THE persistence of the human mind in clinging to false theories is worthy of a better cause, and is doubtless due in large part to the timidity which is an outgrowth of these very theories. Shakespeare but expresses a universal sentiment when he says that a dread of the unknown "makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

WE copy the following item from a recent issue of The Boston Transcript:— "Never before, so it is reported in many Protestant bodies, has there been, such a lack of good men for ministerial positions. Bishops in the Protestant Episcopal Church are especially loud in declarations to the effect that parishes have to remain vacant because they are unable to find men to fill them.

NO mental advance of modern times is more significant than that expressed in the present very general recognition that we do not see things in themselves, but only our concepts, or mental pictures of them. In the past, the great body of even intelligent people have been more sure of the so-called facts of the material world than of anything else; and their present awakening to the truth that we cannot rely on sense-testimony, constitutes a most eventful transformation of thought.

IT is admitted by all who study the text-book of Christian Science, or who are healed by its ministry, that a great spiritual awakening is felt, and that it is manifested in a new interest in the Bible and in religion generally. Texts which had formerly no special significance are illuminated, and often the question is asked, Why did I not see all this before? The statement that Christian Science is a rediscovery of the divine Principle underlying the teaching and practice of Christ Jesus, brings joy to many a heavy heart, especially when this declaration is supported by their healing.

THE fact that several pensioners have surrendered their pensions because they have been healed by Christian Science of the diseases which had afflicted them has occasioned considerable comment, and at least one newspaper has made it an occasion for sneering at Christian Science. The New Haven (Conn.