Editorials

The following is a clipping taken from the Boston Evening Transcript, Nov. 7, and is of interest to all.

At a luncheon given to Lady Henry Somerset, one of the many distinguished ladies who in November attended the first World's Convention of the W. C.

Manuscript sent to the Journal without signature and address, is not accepted. In preparing manuscript for publication, if contributors will write with ink, and on one side of the paper only, it will be greatly appreciated.

Dear Fellow Workers: Greeting . An arduous duty has been laid upon unaccustomed shoulders.

It has been thought best to drop the Home and Children's Department, as a department; yet we shall be glad to have reports of unconscious, spontaneous, demonstrations by children. Avoid exaggeration, and let some of the children be as much as ten or fifteen years of age.

The new book, Retrospection and Introspection, by the author of Science and Health , is a treasure of Love; and is a wonderful adjustment of the questions of thy day, to the students of Science and Health . It disentangles many a vexed problem which has caused severe and prolonged struggles.

My year in the Journal work closes with this issue, and I then return to my field and Institute. I have resigned my office as Editor of the Christian Science Journal, and take great pleasure in presenting to the field my successor, Mrs.

The year just drawing to its close is a never-to-be-forgotten one in the history of Christian Science. In its glorious dawn came the Book of the age,—the revised Science and Health, by Mary B.

The golden harvest days have come, with their clear skies, pure atmosphere, richly tinted fruits, and wealth of golden grain, making glad the husbandman whose activity in the careful preparation of the soil, and in wisely selecting the best vines, plants and seeds, followed by his patiently waiting the time of maturity,—all these conditions, necessary each to the other,—has been most marvelously rewarded, both by the unprecedented, abundant harvest, and the value of it, by reason of the scanty crops in other lands; thus affording these brave-hearted husbandmen, who have struggled years without reward, an opportunity to pay off all indebtedness, and yielding them an independence which they have faithfully earned. Through their oft repeated losses and failures they have persevered, until a rich reward is theirs, and many a home is freed from debt-bondage; and there arises a song of joy and gratitude for these good gifts.

The October meeting of the Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, which convened in Boston, was one of great interest. The call to assemble was heard in London Eng.