Editorials

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.

[In response to a telegram received by Mrs. Eddy from the Boston Globe , she made the following statement, which appeared in the Globe of August 30, together with the views expressed by other prominent and representative Americans.

Why does not Mrs. Eddy attend our State Fair? This question would not naturally be asked concerning another lady of my years and every-day life, but being up we answer it.

The above is the caption to an article in the Sentinel of September 16, 1905, that needs to be corrected. Our Lord and Master left to us the following sayings as living lights in our darkness: "What I say unto you, I say unto all, Watch;" and "If the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute.

AT a recent annual convention of one of the largest and most honored Christian bodies, the report of church growth, for the year, revealed the fact that only one for every twenty-seven hundred of the "great mass of people, who as is fairly presumed, are not receiving religious instruction at home" had been received into the church; and the presiding bishop is reported to have commented upon the subject in the following words:"— "'What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. ' Granting that the time of miraculous healing for the sick, together with other things of this nature that Christ taught, is no longer possible and I grant it only for the sake of argument even then is it right that we should be satisfied with one soul out of every twenty-seven hundred? "If we have done our utmost, then God has failed us.