Editorials

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.

Notwithstanding a pouring rain, Judge Clarkson was greeted by a large audience on the occasion of his lecture in Tremont Temple, Boston, on Tuesday evening, October 9, 1900. Judge Clarkson was called to deliver the semi-annual lecture under the auspices of the Mother Church.

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

We have always heard much of common sense. There are no words more commonly used than these.

We published in the Sentinel of September 13, an account of the New Hampshire State Fair, and of the visit of the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy thereto.

We have recently perused a series of sermons by different ministers of the gospel on the subject of Christian Science, some of whom have many pleasant things to say of it. Others are inclined to be somewhat harsh.

The very essence of Christianity, or Christian philosophy, is righteous judgment, or judging rightly our fellow-beings. No greater edict fell from the lips of the Nazarene Teacher than this: "Judge not, that ye be not judged.

The Board of Education, acting under the auspices of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, held its sessions according to announcement, commencing June 13, 1900. The maximum number of thirty-three students attended the general class in Christian Science, and there were in addition several who sat in the class by special invitation, but who, with two exceptions, were not applicants to teach.

The assertion so repeatedly made in the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that the material senses are deceptive in their cognition of things, causes surprise to many who read it for the first time. Some query, "Is this true? Can it be that the source of knowledge to which we have all our lives been accustomed to trust, has deceived us, and that we may no longer gather information therefrom?" Others denounce the claim as untrue, and declare that if man may not trust to the material senses for his knowledge of things, he is wholly without the means of acquiring information or wisdom.