Editorials

The following loving words of greeting, counsel, and encouragement were sent by our Leader to First Church of Christ, Scientist, St. Louis, upon the dedication of its recently completed church edifice.

The following correspondence between our Leader and the church at Pittsburgh, upon the occasion of the dedication of the new church edifice in that city, will be read with interest. Pittsburg, Pa.

IN his story of Jean Valjean, Victor Hugo has given a heart-touching picture of the sad fact that human condemnation is often visited upon offences in inverse ratio to their seriousness. For petty stealing the world's reward has ever been a prison; but for colossal peculation, it has not infrequently been praise.

STRIKING examples of the modern proverb which says that it is better for a man to sound his own praises than to let them remain unsounded, are to be found in many of the criticisms of Christian Science which have appeared in newspapers and magazines, and the complacency with which the critics announce themselves as "thoughtful persons," or persons capable of "viewing the situation broadly" is somewhat amazing, since a becoming sense of modesty should prompt them to allow their readers to pass judgment upon such delicate and personal questions. If a writer possesses superior merit as a thinker this will be manifest to his readers, and whether he has considered his subject from the standpoint of a "thoughtful person" and viewed the situation broadly will appear from the care with which he has sought out the evidence pro and con, and weighed it, rather than from any self-assertion of superior intellectual capacity.

PERHAPS no subject arouses greater interest than does that of the future life, as it is called. People who do not concern themselves about religion are ready to admit their interest in a possible future existence.

Open our eyes, that we that world may see! Open our ears, that we Thy voice may hear, And in the spirit land may ever be, And feel Thy presence, with us, always near. Jones Very.

In Christian Science we no longer think of the returning seasons from a material standpoint, but instead, we learn to measure the unfoldment of our spiritual capacities by our power to gain from every aspect of nature higher and more helpful lessons. Spiritual sense alone can rightly interpret nature, and as its spiritual lessons unfold to us, we smile when we think upon the sombre teaching of the not very remote past, expressed in the following lines, which were sung in the churches of an orthodox faith,— Yet soon reviving plants and flowers anew shall deck the plain; The woods shall hear the voice of spring and flourish green again.

We feel sure that our readers will join with us in thanking the Herald for so promptly and unequivocally refuting this "oft-repeated falsehood" which has been circulated quite industriously in order to impugn the good faith of Mrs. Eddy and her followers.

The following excerpts are from an article written by a reporter for The New York Herald and published in the March 5 issue of that paper. "Pleasant View, Concord, N.

The nuptial vow should never be annulled so long as the morale of marriage is preserved. The frequency of divorce shows the imperative nature of this relationship to be losing ground, hence that some fundamental error is engrafted therein.