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Editorials
Thirty-three students, from nearly as many States,— many with the degree already earned of C. S.
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.
This is what our Journal is to have, in one of the most eligible locations in all Boston. Our rooms will be in Hotel Boylston, over the Steinert piano warerooms, at the southeastern corner of Boylston and Tremont Streets.
" A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. " It is a rule in Christian Science never to repeat error, unless this becomes requisite to bring out Truth.
Somebody asks the meaning of the abbreviations q. v.
As an argument against the consistency of Christian Scientists receiving recompense for services rendered, this text is often quoted: "Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money, come ye! buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk, without money and without price. " ( ISAIAH iv.
One thing is certain. What is it? This, that it takes two to make a quarrel.
About thirty years ago the towns of Warren and North Brookfield were in litigation over the settlement of a pauper named Chickering. It was discovered that the Chickerings once lived in Sturbridge, and in some ancient archives was found a document setting forth the claim of the town of Sturbridge on a neighboring town, for support of one of them.
All hail! Pen can never portray the satisfaction that you afforded me at the grand meeting in Chicago, of the National Christian Scientist Association. Your public and private expressions of love and loyalty were very touching.
A Dream of Midsummer? Not so, though thus wrote our Shakespeare; For real are the Life and the Light, the Love and the Sunshine; The Dream is of death and of cold, of dark winter and Hades.