Editorials

In compliance with requests repeatedly made, we herewith publish a discourse delivered by the then pastor of the Mother Church in Copley Hall, the last Sunday but one of meeting there, the subject being "Heaven," and the text Matt. 3:1, 2, and 4:17 : "In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, 'Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

We know of no better test of the efficacy of any system of religion than its practical results in uplifting and bettering humanity. Religion should make men better morally, spiritually and physically.

The thunderings of the pulpit against Christian Science and other "unorthodox" methods of healing the sick have, perhaps, been louder and longer during the past year than at any other similar period of time. We have read many discourses of this nature, and as a rule pass them by unnoticed as being, not attacks upon Christian Science or divine healing, but vaporings of the erroneous conceptions thereof entertained by the assailants.

This is the title of a two volume book just published by Messrs. Gay, Brothers & Co.

We have recently received from subscribers to the Journal a large number of postal cards sent out by H. E.

We have repeatedly said, editorially, that we do not and cannot answer the specific and promiscuous questions asked us; but the manner in which questions of every sort come pouring into us, raises the suspicion either that our subscribers do not read the Editor's Table, or reading it, soon forget what they read; or possibly think that in this "particular case" they will ask the question any way, and take the chances. Friends, if you knew how much unnecessary work you make us at this end of the line, you would be more considerate.

God is supreme Being, supreme Intelligence, supreme Principle. There can be but one Supreme Mind.

In the January Journal we published a copy of the death warrant of Jesus Christ taken from a newspaper slip found pasted in an old Bible printed in 1822. Jesus' sentence to crucifixion was engraved on a copper plate on one side of which were written these words: "A similar plate is sent to each tribe.

We again remind our readers that we do not answer questions through the Journal . If they are answered at all the answers must be found in the general matter composing its columns.

Never since the days of early Christianity has there been a religious sect or denomination so misunderstood and misrepresented as Christian Science. A great many people unfamiliar with the teachings of the Christian Science text-book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, believe Christian Science to be the very opposite of what it in fact is.