Editorials

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Is the title of No. 7 of the Series.

Students and workers, especially those isolated from other Scientists, are constantly meeting points in the practice or the letter of Science, on which they desire enlightenment or counsel. It is fair to assume that for one that writes to the Journal for a solution, there are scores or hundreds who have met the same difficulty, and whom the answer will interest equally.