Editorials

Christian Science is an onward and upward religious movement—the greatest of the ages. Even those who would oppose it admit its growth and potentiality.

The more excellent way which Paul said he would show unto the faithful followers of Christ at Corinth, is to be found in the thirteenth chapter of his first epistle. The Apostle concludes this short, but most remarkable, dissertation on charity with these words, "and now abideth faith, hope, charity [love, Rev.

It is estimated that about three thousand Christian Scientists were present at Pleasant View, the home of Rev. Mary Baker G.

The semi-annual meeting of the First Members of the Mother Church was held at the usual time. One of the pleasant incidents thereof was the following letter to the Rev.

According to announcement, the annual Communion service of the Mother Church was observed Sunday, June 23. Notwithstanding the fact that the Sentinel of the week before contained the announcement that the service would be held on July 7, the attendance was as large as on any previous occasion, the estimate being that there were not less than eight thousand at the four services.

When the disciples of Christ are referred to, thought goes back over a period of nineteen hundred years In the twelve and the seventy. These men, who were chosen because of their special fitness for the work that would he required of them, occupy a unique position in the world's religious history.

The efforts to secure legislation in protection of the practice of medicine and surgery in nearly all the states wherein the legislatures held sessions during the winter just closed, resulted in a wider discussion of the question of religious liberty than this country, or possibly any country, has ever witnessed. So far as we have been advised these efforts have failed to procure any legislation which can be said to be an interference with or abridgment of religious liberty in so far as the question affects Christian Scientists, excepting in the State of Indiana.

Recent events have brought into discussion, in newspapers and elsewhere, the questions suggested by the above caption. There is perhaps no question in human affairs which offers a wider field for speculation or play of the imagination than that which relates to the peculiarities of the human, mortal mind.

The demise of Great Britain's best and greatest Sovereign, Queen Victoria, suggests some interesting reminiscences in connection with the Empire since her accession. The duration of her reign was sixty-three and one half years.

The Evangelist, of New York, in a recent editorial relating to a Christian Science lecture, thus animadverts:— "It is very certain that the life of that movement or church which calls itself by this name is that its members do practise and live by certain truths which have been the property of the Christian Church since our Lord revealed them, and that his Church has greatly suffered by not living up to her privilege and duty in this respect. It is safe to say that the philosophy on which Christian Science is based is a tissue of ignorance and misapprehension, but the lives of the great majority of Christian Scientists are a beautiful illustration of what certain teachings of Christ ought to have wrought in his Church long before this, and might have wrought, had the Church been more full of faith and less concerned with speculation.