Editorials

We endeavor below to answer some of the questions that are most frequently propounded to Christian Scientists. We may remark, by way of preface, that it is much easier to ask questions than to answer them, especially when a single question may sound the depths of an infinite subject.

The latest pamphlet of the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, "Christian Science versus Pantheism," is among the most valuable of her recent contributions to our literature.

We are in receipt of letters which indicate that funds are being raised for the purpose of furnishing a certain Christian Science church with chairs and seats, under the "endless chain" system. The Journal has heretofore spoken in disapproval of such methods, and we hereby again call attention to the fact that from our point of view such methods do not properly belong to Christian Science.

( Personal ). Where God is, the devil cannot be.

Doubtless the readers of the 'Journal were surprised,— and we trust agreeably,—upon receiving the Christian Science Weekly. The purposes of the Weekly were sufficiently set forth in the first issue to advise the Field thereof.

We earnestly request the Field not to send subscriptions and other matters pertaining to the Publisher's Department, in letters enclosing articles for publication. The departments are separate and should be separately addressed.

The Christian Scientist who reads the attempts of certain non-Scientists to tell others what Christian Science is, cannot but wonder if there ever was a religious philosophy so utterly misapprehended, misrepresented, and distorted as is this one. He wonders if public speakers in general are so much in the habit of discoursing upon, and even attempting to instruct their audiences concerning, things about which they know so little, as are many who assume to tell the public what Christian Science is and what it is not.

If evil is real in the sense that it is eternal, when, where, and how shall it ever be overcome? And yet the Bible tells us to overcome evil with good. If so be that one is less under the dominion of evil now than one year or ten years ago, then in that proportion one has proven the non-eternity of evil.

The war is ended; the protocol has been duly signed; the white-winged dove of peace once again hovers over our country. This event is indeed cause for deep thanksgiving and profound rejoicing.

What may properly be termed the judicial habit should prevail, in a peculiar sense, among Christian Scientists. We know of no people who should be more impartial, more tolerant, more charitable.