Editorials

Oh ye Christian Scientists! how incomparably great are the divine benefactions which have alighted on you. How happy you are.

Boston has been accused of being the hot-bed of isms, and as liable to be carried away by all sorts of false and superficial pretensions. Many facts give a plausible support to these charges, facts which we have no disposition needlessly to repeat.

A Chicago journal on Mental Science healing quotes a speech of a Boston speaker on "Christian Science," omitting all the passages which mention Christian Science; and this speech had been fairly reported in a Spiritualist magazine, whence the garbled excerpts are taken.

" The world will love its own," said Jesus. Mental science may be atheistic.

The sunbeams must have free course for their best effect. They may be excluded, and in that case, if carried far enough, cold and darkness and the destruction of all animal and vegetable life ensue.

In spite of Christian Science, some persons remain long unhealed, and some die before the approach of old age. This is a disappointment, and it discloses some imperfection of our scientific action, and a limitation of our power somewhere.

All the recorded healing agency of Christ and his apostles was instantaneous, or nearly so. We only know of one occasion where Christ had to "treat" twice.

The readers of the Christian Science Journal are elsewhere informed of the change which has been made in its management and editorial control. In entering on our new duties we shall rightly be expected to give the salute courteous to our patrons, and thus form with them a sort of initial personal acquaintance.

In retiring from the management of the Journal, I am pleased that Dr. S.

Without rebuke.