Editorials

The following letters relate to another splendid gift to our Leader for the branch church in her home city. The great interest of the Field in this church has found expression in many gifts, and Mrs.

The following letters disclose another happy incident in connection with the building of the Concord church, and they give further evidence of the loving regard for our Leader, and appreciation of her work, which animate the Field. The donors are blessed in the giving, as well as in the spiritual food which they have found in Mrs.

The question of immortality is one which ofttimes turns thought to the study of religion when nothing else can do so. It is not so much for themselves that men desire immortality, but rather because of their love for those dear to them.

Radicalism is so essential to reform that it cannot be dispensed with, even though it may be marred by a tendency to extravagance of statement and hastiness of action. It is important, however, that a careful separation in thought be made between fealty to Principle and the presumptuous and uncharitable ways in which would-be loyalty is sometimes manifested.

The recently adopted By-law of the Mother Church, "Church Organizations Ample," has been commented upon quite freely by the press, and to a very large extent the comments have been favorable. The following extracts from the editorial columns, indicate the general views of the press.

Their published boast, in 1903, that Mary Baker G. Eddy would never again meet with her church is not fulfilled.

[ The following letter from our Leader appeared in the Concord papers of June 15, and we know that those who experienced the hospitality of the citizens of Concord will thank her for having expressed the sentiments which all felt so deeply. ] Dear Mr.

When the crude forms of human thought take on higher symbols and significations, the scientifically Christian views of the universe will appear, illuminating time with the glory of eternity. Mary Baker Eddy.

The following extracts from testimonies recently published in the Christian Science Sentinel present in a few simple words the practical value of applied Christian Science. "I had been a minister of the Gospel for thirty years.

June tells of the sweetest fulfilment of hope, and in its warm sunshine the dreariest and coldest winter days are forgotten. As we look upon its prodigal display of beauty, we are impressed with the seemingly rapid transition from the bareness of the trees and fields in the early spring, to the present hour when they appear "with verdure clad," and we may well recall the Master's words, "If God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you?" In nature's great panorama mortals behold a manifestation of God's perfect ideas which, however, are but imperfectly discerned through the distorting lenses of material sense.