Editorials

The Boston Herald of Wednesday, June 8, 1898, contained the following editorial paragraph:— Mrs. Eddy, Christian Scientist, says that Pantheism is derived from Pan, a mythological god.

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.

In the April, 1898, Journal, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy , speaking of the financial problem as she experienced it, says:— "After four years from my discovery of Christian Science, while taking no remuneration for my labors, and healing all manner of diseases, I was confronted with the fact of no monetary means left wherewith to hire a hall in which to speak, or to establish a Christian Science Home for indigent students (which I yearned to do), or even to meet my own current expenses, and halted from necessity.

It has ever been a peculiarity of human nature to relegate prophecy and prophets to the past. It is as much a truism that a prophet is not without honor save in his own age and generation, as that he is not without honor save in his own country.

Do Christian Scientists believe in war? Christian Scientists look to the Bible for their authority in all affairs, divine and human. If the Bible teaches that war is a divine institution, Christian Scientists should feel themselves obliged to regard it as such.

In The Washington News Letter, published in Washington D. C.

A short time since we sent out to those interested a letter of which the following is a copy. For the information it contains we publish it in this number.

It is always a pleasure to read a sermon or discourse which is the product of a liberal mind, especially when it is evident that the author has boldly set aside the traditions and trammels of a stereotyped theology and struck out upon broad and independent lines. The people are growing more and more weary of the old theological plough and harrow.

At this writing the war clouds hang heavily over the horizon. We have hoped that war would be averted.

We will say for the information of the Field that we have no copies of the decisions of the courts affecting the rights of Christian Scientists to carry on their work that can be said to be authority such as would be binding upon other courts. No single case against a Scientist has yet reached an appellate, or court of last resort, and it is only the decisions of these courts that become authoritative as precedents.