Editorials

We are glad to reprint the following editorial from the Nashua (N. H.

In discussing the present trend of the Church, and of Christian thought, President Harper of Chicago University has spoken of the religious significance of a knowledge of physical science, in terms which challenge attention to-day, and which would have awakened a storm of religious protest a generation ago. He says;— "The work of the theological student should be brought into touch with the modern spirit of science.

The Annual Meeting of the Executive Members of The Mother Church was held in the church edifice, at nine o'clock, June 10th. There were present about fifty members from Boston, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and other near-by States.

The annual Communion service of The Mother Church was held in its edifice, June 11. No special arrangements had been made for visiting Scientists, except that one extra service was held.

The newly elected Readers of The Mother Church for the ensuing term of three years are:— First Reader , Mr. William D.

Committee of Executive Members of The Mother Church. Beloved Brethren :— In response to your greeting, I thank you.

Dearly Beloved :— I request that every member of The Mother Church in Boston pray each day for the amicable settlement of the war between Russia and Japan; and that God bless this great nation, and those islands of the sea, with peace and prosperity. Mary Baker G.

With the coming of the rare June days the most beautiful things in nature throng us with their tender appeal; recalling the Master's words, "If God so clothe the grass of the field,.

It is often asserted by representative physicians that the insistent efforts of medical societies to secure legislation in restraint of Christian Science practice, have been prompted by consideration for the public health, and the stock argument advanced is that the Christian Scientist's ignorance of anatomy, therapeutics, and symptomatology wholly unfits him to minister to the needs of the sick. While the unprejudiced have abundant reason to doubt the sincerity of this show of unselfish solicitude, one is continually surprised to find how responsive Christian believers both clerical and lay, are to this argument, despite the face that their concession must inevitably lead them to a position which involves either a denial of the spiritual healing on Christ Jesus and his disciples, or of the continuity and availability of divine law.

Boston, Mass. , May 5, 1905.