Editorials

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.

The Parliament of Religions has come and gone. It has become a part of the history of the World's Fair, and the World's Fair will soon have become a part of the history of the world.

New Haven, Ct. , July 15, 1893.

It is related in the fourth chapter of Matthew that Jesus " began to preach " by saying, " Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. " It is also related that he did this preaching in fulfilment of the prophecy of Esaias, who forsaw that " the people which sat in darkness saw a great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.