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Editorials

Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.

Correspondents of the Journal in the departments of "Healing and Reports of Cases," "Questions and Answers "etc. , will notice that their full names are never printed.

The Christian Science Bible Lessons more than justify, in actual use, the expression made in the January Journal. Some defects in typographical arrangement will be found corrected in the present monthly issue.

Medical Science Again in the Pillory

It is with mingled sorrow and indignation that those who understand through Christian Science the laws of mental operation, have followed the "working up" in mind of the influenza scare, to its present gigantic proportions. First the press thundered in all ears the decree of materia medica as to its coming hither; this the doctors confirmed and explained, with learned reasons,—gave the symptoms, laws of development, and probabilities of fatal termination.

EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK

The country has been flooded for two or three years past with cheap issues of what is called "Christian Science Literature. " The greater part of this is of little value, and much of it is misleading or pernicious.

EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK

The Journal will in its future issues be edited in its several departments by different individuals. There are several reasons for this.

"C. S. B." and "C. S. D."

Many inquiries are made as to the precise signification of these letters that follow the names of many Scientists. They indicate, respectively, the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Christian Science, conferred by the Faculty of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College.

To the Readers of the Journal

With the October issue the Christian Science Journal passed definitively under the control of the Publication Committee of the National Association. It is now, to the last outward detail, a part of the life, not only of every member of the Association, but of every individual Scientist who looks to the Association as the representative body of the numerous Christian Science believers.

Personality Under the Mask of Impersonality

A sense of sinfulness merely awakened is a sense of others' sin. The beginning of regeneration brings out "God be merciful to ME a sinner.

Shall We Organize

Some correspondents ask questions about organization that should draw out many answers. These questions go to the quick of the matter, and they represent a widely diffused thought that needs to be met.

"What Christian Science Teaches about Marriage"

Is the title of No. 7 of the Series.