Editorials

Without variety, said a great preacher once, how tame our gardens, with every flower in form and color the counterpart of another; and how monotonous the music of early morn, did every lark in the sky, linnet in the bush, rook and ringdove in the woods, all utter the same notes! But variety characterizes every department of nature. Each lamb of the flock has a bleat known to its mother; each rose on the bush has its own shape and shade of color; and there is not a lark that hangs caroling in the clouds but has a voice recognized by the brood above whose grassy nest she sings her morning hymn, calling the drowsy world to rise for worship and for work.

With this number of our Journal terminates the connection therewith of the gentleman who has had the general literary charge and arrangement of it since January, 1886,— three years, — with the exception of the few months following the summer of 1886. The new come, who assumes editorial control of the magazine, beginning with the February number, is a Christian.

[Selected from RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, D. D.

Until further notice we offer the following premiums for the names of new subscribers to the Christian Science Journal. On receipt of the names of two new subscribers, and four dollars, we will send, to the person sending the same, one dollar's worth of any of the works advertised in this magazine, which they may select.

A silk bed-scarf, of seventy-two pieces, each nine inches square, embroidered, hand-painted, and done in patchwork, was accompanied by the following letter: Beloved Teacher : During the past weeks there has been in progress a labor of love throughout our land. Seventy-nine members of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College Christian Science Association have responded to our letters, and expressed great delight at the idea of presenting a mutual token of respect and love to our Teacher.

We notice an array of noted contributors which promises unusual excellence for this volume. First among them is the Right Honorable W.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Suffolk ss.

Attendants at Chicago, last June, were greatly pleased with Mason's Address. Western people liked it so much, that one of them wished to print it; but it was decided best to issue it in Boston, through our Publication Committee.

Having reached a place in teaching where my students in Christian Science are taught more during seven lessons in the Primary Class than they were formerly in twelve, and taught all that is profitable at one time, hereafter, the Primary Class will include seven lessons only. As this number of lessons is of more value than twice this number in times past, no change is made in the price of tuition, three-hundred dollars.

[ The following article, in the form of a letter, was written by R. Sears, M.