Editorials

The following extracts from "Gibbons' Rome" are interesting as showing the works and healing of sickness and raising the dead during the early years of the Christian religion. When Christianity was understood and practised in its purity, surely the "days of miracles" had not passed.

On last Communion Day there were received into the Mother Church two hundred and ninety-seven new members. This makes a total membership of about eighteen hundred.

The fact that our Cause has an organ through which the utterances of the students and friends of Christian Science may from time to time be given, should be appreciated by all. But more important than this is the other fact that through its columns our beloved Leader may and does give forth her words of encouragement, guidance and admonition, in almost every issue.

It is usual at the commencement of each new year to make good resolutions, to "turn over a new leaf. " Permit us to make some suggestions along this line for the coming year.

We are on the eve of another calendar year. According to the human estimate of time, we are about to enter upon a new year, the year 1894.

Christendom will soon again formally celebrate the day on which Christ Jesus was born into the world; that day fraught with such mighty significance to mankind, and which ushered in a new era of divine Truth, in human consciousness. It did not in reality usher in a New Testament, or revelation of divine law.

PERHAPS one of the least understood of the Old Testament allegories is that contained in the Book of Jonah. It has long been the subject of much discussion and speculation.

All Scientists, churches, and reading rooms desiring Bibles for holiday gifts, or other purposes, will do well to read the notice of the Publisher,—in the Publisher's Department, of the stock he has on hand, and the prices at which he can sell, and correspond with him. The History of the Religious Congresses by the Rev.

The Christian Science exhibit of literature was an attractive feature of the Fair. Especially so to Scientists.

The grounds of the World's Fair present an enlivening scene. It is apparently the world in epitome.