Editorials

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.

The decision of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, published in full in this number, in addition to its general importance, settling as it does, on the negative side, the contention of many that, because Christian Science cures sickness, it bears such a relation to the practice of medicine that it should come within the laws regulating that system of practice, embraces several features of special interest. 1.

It has been conclusively demonstrated by Admiral Cervera that the sinking of the Merrimac in the mouth of Santiago Harbor was not so effectual as was at first supposed. Nevertheless, the achievement answered a great purpose in more ways than one, and the result detracts not one iota from the daring and heroism of Lieutenant Hobson and his brave comrades.

The editor of Zion's Herald, published in Boston, is among those who seem to have an uncontrollable antipathy to Christian Science. He has taken frequent occasion to say unpleasant and un-Christian things concerning it.

Sergeant Cash, one of the "Rough Riders" who was wounded in the battle before Santiago, and the first wounded man to reach Washington, in a conversation with a news-paper reporter said:— "The health of the men where I was was good. We did everything we were told not to do in the way of diet, and made out very well.

Another glorious Fourth has come and gone; and while it is not our purpose to deliver ourselves of a post-Fourth of July oration, we feel called upon, after much sober second-thought and deliberation, to make a few ex post facto remarks which seem to us to be "appropriate to the occasion. " We firmly believe in the proper observance of the natal day of our great and glorious Republic.

We have received a copy of a new publication entitled The Examiner, published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We have no desire to unduly criticise this or any other publication purporting to be in line with Christian Science; but when we see what seems to us to be misleading statements in the name of Christian Science we feel it a duty to point them out.

If there is no error in Truth, there can logically be no Truth in error. The two cannot combine.

Of all the incidents, thus far, of the present war, the almost incredible bravery of Lieutenant Hobson and his seven companions in their heroic scuttling of the Merrimac in the narrow entrance to Santiago Harbor, is without a parallel. Indeed, in point of sheer bravery and heroism, it is justly entitled to, and doubtless will, take its place among the greatest of military deeds of valor.