Editorials

Our attention has been called to a letter written by Cotton Mather, which for uniqueness and as a specimen of some of the phases of Puritanical Christianity is instructive and entertaining. We do not know if it has ever been published, but we have assured ourselves of its genuineness, as hereafter stated.

The thought that God is a distant God, and that Heaven is "far, far away," is contrary to all the teaching of the Bible. God's all-presence and Heaven's nearness are the leading themes of Scripture.

We cannot read carefully the Scriptures without observing that success and prosperity (and by this we mean the true sense of success and prosperity) are invariably coupled with conditions. This has been emphasized over and over again in our Bible lessons.

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.

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.