Editorials

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.

The Christian Science Series , for July, embraces a number from our Teacher, entitled "What Christian Science Is and Is Not. " This number is admirably calculated for popular circulation.

All New Subscriptions to the Journal should embrace the July number, containing the Minutes of the National Association and the Constitution and By-Laws of the Dispensary. That and the August number, with the Minutes, Dispensary, and Church Organization documents marked, should be sent to every clergyman and every newspaper in the country.

Elsewhere in the Journal is printed a communication to our Teacher concerning the publication by students of works on Christian Science. A clear idea on this subject is essential, and the point of departure is the words of the Teacher of Christian Science.

The importance of the publications made in the Journal the last and the present month, is apparent to all readers. The popular idea of the Christian Scientist is of one who in the religious world is a sort of homeless nondescript.

Inquiry is made by several correspondents as to whether the recommendation of the National Association to hold the Scientist Sunday services "at the usual hour for such services," refers to the universal hour of service, i. e.

Inquiries begin to reach the Journal for persons competent to teach and practice the true Science of Mind-healing. Some isolated reader of Science and Health, or one who has received the ministration of healing from a person not qualified as a teacher, or a healer who does not feel competent to meet any special wants, sends to the Journal for a healer of larger understanding, or for a teacher of a class, or a lecturer for a place or neighborhood.

The Brooklyn Association has grown to be one of the largest in the country. In another column will be found the account of its action taken immediately after the National Association in the organization of the "First Church of Christ (Scientist)" in that city.

Several inquiries have come to the Journal concerning steps to be taken in the organization of Churches. These communications are held waiting the completion of the Committee,— only partially made up at the meeting of the National Association— for reference to them.

Among the many pleasing and profitable features and incidents of the late meeting of the Association, there is only one criticism or regret that has reached us. This relates to the failure to hear the many reports of local progress and movements in Science, that had been prepared.