Editorials

This is the title of a charming book, written by Mrs. Sophie M.

Her many friends and students will be glad to know that Rev. Mary B.

In The Housekeeper, a well-read sheet, published at Lacquiparle, Minnesota, is an article, entitled Some Mind-cure Notes, but encroaching upon Christian Science, brightly written but not always accurate,—at least so far as New England is concerned. It affirms that all the healers and healed are women.

Once a year Thanksgiving! Only once a year? Surely, daily offerings Better would appear. Night and day He watches O'er man's helpless lot; Then let glad hosannas Never be forgot.

In the Christian Science Journal for July, the writer of the article entitled Christian Science in the Police Court gives the impression that an appeal had been made, in the case of Miss Whitlock, to the Supreme Court, and that a decision had been rendered in her favor. We are informed, upon good authority, that none of the cases against the Christian Scientists have been appealed to a higher tribunal.

This is the apt name of a book of lectures by Rev. Leighton Parks, of Emmanuel Church (Episcopal) Boston.

He is indeed one of the wonders of this age,—a man who literally follows the precepts of Jesus about non-resistance and poverty. Says the Journal of Education: Tolstoi is always an artist, and writes an artist; but it is a sorrowful sign for Russia, that her finest genius has no gospel for her but this of destruction.

Under this caption The Christian at Work attacks certain foolish actions of Faith-curers and others, who, rather than depart from their usual methods, when they find their knowledge inadequate to cure, have allowed their patients to needlessly suffer and die. The case of a Colorado man is cited, who is such a fanatic on this subject as to conceal the burial of children, lest the public knowledge of their decease should prejudice the people against his orphan asylum.

In a recent number of the Chicago Herald is a sketch of the remarkable power of Henry Hendrickson, a Norwegian, forty-two years old, who was educated at the Blind School in Janesville, Wisconsin. He has been totally blind since the age of six months; yet he is able to go about alone, and can detect the depressions in the sidewalks, and the street-corners, before he comes to them,—and this without the aid of touch.

The empirical character of drug-treatment is shown by such a record as this, taken from the Nineteenth Century : In Lincolnshire a girl, suffering from the ague, cuts a lock of her hair and binds it around an aspen tree, praying the latter to shake in her stead. The remedy for a toothache at Tavistock, in Devonshire, is to bite a tooth from a skull in the churchyard, and keep it always in the pocket.