Editorials

Somerville, Sept. 16th, 1885.

Upon our many friends far and near we call for financial aid. Before another year passes away we should possess the building site for a church, and considerable funds toward the erection.

Who is there that sets himself to the task of steadily watching his thoughts for the space of one hour, with the view of preserving his mind in a simple, humble, healthful condition, but will speedily discern in the multiform, self-reflecting, self-admiring emotions, which, like locusts, are ready to "eat up every green thing in his land," a state as much opposed to simplicity and humility, as night is to day? — Kelty. September's skies Are smiling in the earth's Uplifted face; And, far away, the hills And clouds embrace.

Do you believe God is Spirit? Yes. Why? Because His word says so.

" The real corrupters of society may be, not the corrupt, but those who have held back the righteous leaven, the salt that has lost its savor, the innocent who have not even the moral courage to show what they think of the effrontery of impurity,—the serious, who yet timidly succumb before some loud-voiced scoffer, —the heart trembling all over with religious sensibilities that yet suffers itself through false shame to be beaten down into outward and practical aequiesence by some rude and worldly nature. " "Service to be sincere must be entire and undistracted.

The foreman of one of our most responsible publishing houses remarked, after a critical examination of several numbers of the C. S.

The attention of readers is specially called to the advertisement of the reliable firm of Rogers & Co. on another page of the Journal.

If all would stand boldly for Truth, whether men would hear or forbear, praise or blame, the cause of Christian Science would not lag in thousands, but a world of sin and sorrow might be saved and blessed by their efforts. Galileo abjured the eternal and immortal truth which he had himself the glory of establishing, by a cowardly surrender to fear of those in authority.

Three thousand Journal readers will rejoice at sight of the familiar name of "Chickering" in the exclusive advertising columns of their favorite magazine. To many of us it is reminder of home and friends dearly beloved, whose voices chimed to the full tones of the "best piano in the world," in the days of our youth; to others, it is gratifying confirmation of the soundness of their judgment in considering that their Chickering holds right of way in the musical world, since indorsed by their alma mater; to a still greater number we trust the advertisement will be imperative prompting to purchase that long-needed addition to their homes—a piano.

A Vienna correspondent of the London Times says an important discovery has been made among the manuscripts which Archduke Renier brought from Egypt two years ago. A fragment of the New Testament has been found, comprising a chapter which differs from St.