Editorials

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.

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.

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.

One of the beliefs about Christian Science most commonly held by those who have no practical knowledge of the subject, or who seek to account for its healing work upon the plane of faith cure or suggestion, is accurately stated in the following words, which we quote from a testimony of healing in the August issue of the Journal . The writer of this testimony says, "I wanted relief; I did not want Christian Science; I did not want to be a Christian Scientist.

Says the Boston Herald of to-day: A transfer of more than usual interest has just been concluded in Brookline, and deeds filed at the Norfolk registry, Dedham. The transaction conveys to Mary Baker G.

To the Editor of The Herald . A dispatch from Amesbury, Mass.