Editorials

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.

We are called upon to record, with tenderest love and sympathy, the sudden passing from our sight of our beloved brother, E. Noyes Whitcomb of Boston.

London, April 10, 1905. Beloved Leader: —On behalf of Third Church of Christ, Scientist, London, I am privileged to advise you of its establishment, and to express to you, in the name of its members, their dutiful and cheerful loyalty and loving obedience to the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and to you not only as the Revelator of Christian Science but as their dear friend and Leader.

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.

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.

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.