Editorials

The history of the medical profession, and the expressed opinions of many of the members of that profession, both of past generations and of the present generation, warrant all that is claimed by believers in Christian Science touching the inadequacy of drugs and medicines as healing agents. Indeed, according to the common verdict of the more learned and honest members of the profession, if drugs and medicines are the only healing means, the startling fact confronts us that humanity is without a healing power, or a means of saving human life, for the most that is claimed for the drugging system is that it alleviates pain and suffering, and aids nature in throwing off disease.

The charge given to the candidate for consecration to the office of bishop in the M. E.

Do Christian Scientists believe in God? This question is often asked us, and the reason for asking it is said to lie that the inquirer has been told we do not believe in God. A Christian Scientist being once asked this question replied, "Why I believe in nothing else.

A not uncommon charge against Christian Science by those who are judging of it superficially, is that it is a reaffirmance of Pantheism. To one who has caught but a small glimpse of its teachings, such a charge evokes a smile of amusement.

Do Christian Scientists believe in Jesus Christ, or his divinity? This is a question often asked. In the trial of the Buswell case reported in our last issue, the prosecuting attorney asked Mr.

IN the eleventh chapter of Isaiah is prophesied the time when the nations should beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks; and when nation should not lift up sword against nation, neither should they learn war any more; when the wolf should dwell with the lamb, and the leopard should lie down with the kid; when the Lord should set up an ensign for the nations, and should assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth; when the envy of Ephraim should depart, and the adversaries of Judah should be cut off; when Ephraim should not envy Judah, and Judah should not vex Ephraim but they should fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west. We do not say that the great World's Fair which is about to be opened at Chicago, is a literal fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy but we do feel safe in saying that in type it tends in that direction.

We give in this issue an extended report of the trial of the Rev. E.

The words Science and Health which distinguish our textbook, are not less anomalous in the field of book making, than are the words Christian Science in the field of metaphysics and religion. The idea that there was any such close relationship between science and health as to warrant the adoption of that name as the title of a book which should treat of the subject of healing disease, had its origin with the author of that work, the Rev.

A CALIFORNIA minister of the Gospel has recently sent out among his brother clergymen a paper in the nature of an appeal to them to know, "What should be the action of pastors in relation to" Christian Science. He starts out by saying that "The immediate occasion of this paper may he found in the recent reply of a prominent clergyman to a member of his church who had asked him why he opposed divine healing by the Lord Jesus, but had not a word to say against healing by Christian Science, which was leading so many of his church astray?" "His reply was: 'I can't for the life of me see the difference between the two.

A striking evidence of the unity of thought and expression prevailing among Christian Scientists, may be found in the above report. The synopsis of the remarks reads like the thought and words of a single person; yet it fairly represents more than twelve different speakers.