Editorials

It has recently been truly said that as to the healing works of Christian Science the burden of proof does not belong to Christian Science, but to its opponents. It has come to pass that most of the opponents of Christian Science no longer care to assume that burden.

The statement recently made by an eminent Episcopalian clergyman, that "if the Church of Christ, Catholic, had done its duty, the Church of Christ, Scientist, had not been," would appear to be a severe arraignment of the Church of Christ, Catholic. It might even be construed to imply a serious, if not inexcusable, dereliction on the part of the Church Catholic.

Theodore F. Seward, in his admirable address before the Episcopalian Congress of Providence, reached a climax when he uttered these words: "One effect of Christian Science is of immeasurable importance.

About one year ago we had supposed, for reasons quite satisfactory to ourselves, that we had entered upon the Twentieth Century. We were entirely satisfied, as a matter of mere personal choice, with this arrangement.

All who are interested in Christian Science and the great work it is accomplishing for sinful and suffering humanity, should be subscribers to the Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel, which are the official organs of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. The value of these periodicals can be fully realized only by those who are regular subscribers thereto.

We have perused with interest a paper entitled, "The New Revival," read by the Rev. Quincy L.

There is a quite general apprehension among those not familiar with Christian Science, or who have not examined it with some degree of care, that it purports to lie a peculiar system, apart from all others, and entirely new in the world. Or, to still more closely define the misapprehension of some, it is thought to be something which the Rev.

What is healing? The notion that Christian Science is but a system of healing sickness without resort to drugs, or other material aids, is a wholly mistaken one. It is true that healing sickness is included in the Christian Science system, and that it is an important feature; but the term "healing" as used in Christian Science means vastly more than curing sickness, as sickness is usually defined.

The Wednesday evening testimony or experience meetings, rightly conducted, are a most valuable means of bringing the practical results of Christian Science to public attention. Strangers in scores attend these meetings to learn if it indeed is true that people are daily being healed through a power above the ordinary material or physical methods, and that, too, not in isolated cases, as if by accident, but in multiplied hundreds of cases, as if by a fixed and certainly applicable law.

A most gratifying occasion was that of the lecture of Edward A. Kimball, C.