Editorials

We are requested by the Bible Lesson Committee to call attention to the following errors in the Bible Lessons for the present quarter: Lesson No. 5.

The universal sentiment seems to be that by far the most harmonious and helpful meetings which have taken place in Boston for many years, were those of the past few days. The Friday evening meeting (of the Friday before Communion Sunday) in the Mother Church, was the most largely attended we have ever had.

The article from the pen of our Leader, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, which appears in the October number of the Granite Monthly of Concord, N.

THE fact mentioned in the article in the October number of the Granite Monthly, of Concord, N. H.

We wonder how many of us appreciate the extent to which we worship the god of jealousy and envy. We are apt to think lightly of this false god and regard its worship as of trifling importance.

The editorial in our last number is justly subject to the criticism which several of our readers, in the right spirit, have been good enough to make. For such criticisms we are always thankful.

Perhaps the world of humanity was never in greater need of studying carefully and prayerfully the Word of God, and especially the Mosaic Decalogue and teachings of Jesus, than it is to-day. That portion of the world included in our own loved country is, it seems to us, in especial need of studying and applying these teachings.

We think the practice of copying extracts from private letters written by our Leader to her students, as well as from her other writings, and circulating them among others, should cease. We do not know that the author would care to have them thus circulated; in any case it is a breach of courtesy, and may be a breach of confidence, to make such unauthorized use of them.

THE writings of the early Christian Fathers, or the Ante-Nicene Fathers, as they are frequently called, constitute of themselves a very valuable and interesting library of religious literature They are not much known outside theological circles, and are chiefly used within such circles for their doctrinal authority. These writings come down to A.

Having published in our last number the last discourse, but one, delivered in Copley Hall, we feel that, partly as a matter of historical interest, the publication of the last discourse delivered in the Mother Church under the old order of services may not be amiss, the more so as it is in some sense a sequel to the former one. This discourse also was taken down in short hand, and preserved,— of which fact we were not aware until a short time since, when the young lady who was good enough to take and preserve them made it known to us.