Editorials

The custom of setting apart one day in the year for the special commemoration of the resurrection of our Master did not prevail in the very early days of the Christian Church, and the Scriptures do not record the celebration of Easter as a Christian festival nor is it so recorded in the writings of the apostolic fathers; in fact "the sanctity of special times and places was an idea quite alien from the early Christian mind, too profoundly absorbed in the events themselves to think of their external accidents. " According to Chrysostom, "The whole of time is a festival unto Christians, because of the excellency of the good things which have been given.

Letter To Rev. Mary B.

There is no more pathetic and suggestive picture of limitation than that of a fettered bird. All the impulses and equipment of its nature call for a life that is bounded by nought save the air, the sunlight, and the circle of the world, and when we see one of these gentle creatures deprived of its freedom and its native joy, our hearts speak out with the instinct, if not the authority, of the Master when he said, "Loose him and let him go.

All Christian Scientists are familiar with our Leader's definition of Church, which is in part as follows: "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle" (Science and Health, p. 583).

A Short time ago we read a criticism of Christian Science, or, more properly speaking, of the critic's misconception of the subject, and found among other errata the statement that Christian Science is dying out; that, as a movement, it had reached its maximum some time ago and is now on the wane. The lack of information displayed by this critic is inexcusable in view of all that has been published on the subject, yet for the benefit of those who may be misled by such reckless statements we give the following facts.

I know no life divided, O Lord of life, from Thee. Carl Spitta.

MATERIAL scientists have been called upon from time to time to readjust their theories about matter, and now they find that through the recent discovery of radium and the investigation of its properties, they are forced to a further reconstruction of heretofore accepted dogma and premise, and to doubt even the existence of such a thing as matter as heretofore defined. Professor Ramsey's discovery that the elements can be changed one into another is the cause of the latest upheaval, and this, in connection with Professor Lodge's declaration that matter, after all, is only the weapon and vehicle of the mind, has caused the Boston Journal to ask whether Mrs.

WE read in our text-book that "Earth's preparatory school must be improved to the utmost" (Science and Health, p. 486).

Concord, New Hampshire, December 31, 1903. The Rev.

We take great pleasure in publishing the following official communication from the Unitarian Church, which has so kindly opened its doors to our Concord brethren during the construction of the edifice presented to them by our Leader. The fellowship and harmony which for many years have marked the religious activity of Concord is well disclosed in this letter and in the resolution it contains.