Editorials

When a young man vainly boasted in the theatre, and said, "I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men;" Epictetus made answer, "And I with many rich men, yet I am not rich. " Love that asketh Love again, Finds the barter nought but pain; Love that giveth in full store, Aye receives as much and more.

John Wilson , the present head of the famous University Press, says that Christian Science and the Bible (the California pamphlet just issued from this office) is one of the best punctuated books he ever read.

In that startling play called A Parisian Romance, in which Richard Mansfield acts so wonderfully, the played-out Baron drops in a fatal fit of paralysis, while he is proposing a pledge "to Divine Matter, that flows in the veins, sparkles in the champagne, glows in the cheek of beauty. " Not only is the portrayal a terrible rebuke to license, but it represents the very opposite of the views of Christian Science—the lie of Life in matter, or of Divinity in body.

Several years ago the Rev. Howard N.

Dr. Albrecht Ritschl , a very influential professor in Gottingen, holds a very peculiar place in theology.

This able bi-monthly dates both from New York and Chicago; and is furnished at the low price of $2. 50 a year.

A hopeful sign of religious liberality is to be seen regularly in the book-notices of the denominational weeklies. These notices are impartially bestowed, upon books widely selected.

Writers for this Journal are fraternally urged to write only on one side of each sheet, to use no abbreviations, to write a large hand, and to put their lines wide apart, so blessing the printer as well as the editor. Postage is cheap now.

This is so important a contribution to physical and metaphysical research, that there is no time or space to do it justice in this number of our Journal, but more will be said about it at some future time. No wonder it has already reached its ninth edition.

The storm and stress of April days, To sunshine tribute bring; So Lexington and Concord raise The song of Freedom's Spring. This is a lovely book,—or rather a cluster of sheets, exquisitely engraved, published by Lee & Shepard.