Putting on record insights into the practice of Christian Science.
Editorials
Readers of the Journal sometimes ask why we do not invite eminent writers of other denominations to contribute to the columns of our monthly. Conservative and Liberal churches, all will admit, are based upon Belief in the reality and might of evil.
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The editor of an obscure little publication in Chicago, wrote an article for the Journal of Christian Science last July, quoting carelessly from the pages of Science and Health without crediting the same. Of course the selections were suitably indicated before the careful Journal permitted the insertion of the article in its September number.
Miss Ada C. Sweet , closed a brilliant address to the graduates of the Woman's Medical College, Chicago, with the words: "Humbly then, reverently, I bid you enter upon your sublime work—the ministry to humanity.
Rev. Daniel Steele , D.
The Board of Health have begun an examination into the sanitary condition of public and private quarters in and about Boston, with especial reference to the possible visitation of the westward moving Cholera. Daily papers are prophesying that the "Scientists" will soon have abundant opportunity to test their skill on contagion in its worst manifestation, and city people are already making preparations for flights to country safety.
In exact ratio as nations or individuals emerge from the night of ignorance, selfishness and barbarism, will the fact dawn upon them that all humanity are born "free and equal," irrespective of race, sex, financial conditions, or educational advantages. The logic of this fact holds as good with individuals as with nations; for a bigoted, ignorant, narrow-minded man has all the characteristics of the banditti of the Middle Ages, whose trade was to war upon commerce and honest industry, using their baronial castles for storing plunder.
Two items of interest have run the rounds of the secular and religious press, and remind thoughtful Scientists of duties to be borne in mind till successfully accomplished. We refer to the completed revision of the Old Testament after fourteen years of conscientious labor by Hebrew and Greek scholars,—and the arrest of Rev.
I have not seen the articles alluded to, but am credibly informed that several papers have contained statements to the effect that Christian Scientists have issued fradulent diplomas. The Massachusetts Metaphysical College is the only chartered college sending out students qualified as above.