Editorials

It is quite time that the alarm be sounded throughout the length and breadth of our land. The liberty of every fireside is in peril.

Illustrations of mind-work occur continually in literature. A recent instance is in the new tragedy by Edgar Fawcett, called The Earl.

[ Sunday Record. ] Recently , in Iowa, a Christian Scientist was arrested for healing in accordance with the teachings of Rev.

April Nineteenth was not only the anniversary of Freedom's battle at Lexington, but the day when there was dedicated the first building ever erected in this world as a Kindergarten for the Blind,—an idea conceived five years ago, in the fertile thought of Michael Anagnos, the Superintendent of the Perkins School, of which this is an adjunct; although the old school is in South Boston, and the Kindergarten is at the corner of Day and Perkins Streets, on the way to the Jamaica Plain District of Boston. The edifice is full of good sense and convenience.

The other day, in a call at the house of a Universalist clergyman, the subject of Christian Science came up. Presently the family spoke of a lady who had been in a strange way, in a mentally and physically dangerous condition, ever since the death of her child; and the minister said: "If no other good was ever done by Christian Science than the restoration of mental health to this woman, it would be a blessing to the community.

From the same house we have received for review, Rambles in Old Boston, New England, by Rev. Edward G.

From Cupples, Upham & Co. we have Poems in Prose, by Ivan Tourguencff.

From Lee & Shepard we have received Gladness of Easter, No. 4 of Easter Hymns and Songs, uniform with the Message of the Bluebird, Arise, my Soul, and also, See the Land Her Easter Keeping.

A friend in Philadelphia sends to Rev. Mrs.

April comes with smiles, Wooing with her wiles; So may mortal mind Banter, but to bind. Yet above the mist, By God's sunshine kissed, Is the Mind Eternal, Making all things vernal.