Editorials

If there is any one fact demonstrated in the practice of materia medica, it is that bodily conditions are translated thoughts. If a zealous advocate of a certain treatment for cancers but study into their varieties and classification long enough, he may be sure of dying eventually of the kind of cancer his thought is most familiar with.

As has been vigorously insisted in the columns of the Christian Science Journal, common honesty demands that an editor who has allowed a prejudiced partisan to attack, through the pages of his publication, a large number of its readers, shall, through the same medium, permit the attacked to defend themselves. All are agreed in theory on the essential fairness of such concession; but, up to date, in the matter of the recent disgraceful assaults upon Christian Science and its adherents, only the secular press of Boston has practically applied this rule of ethics.

At the urgent solicitation of a large number of friends, the President of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, Mrs. Mary B.

People are feeling very deeply for Gen. Grant.

Rays of truth light the thoughts of mankind on question after question, making for race uplifting. The Springfield Republican, calming the fears some entertain that large freedom for woman sets aside a fundamental distinction of sex, says: "The ideal of woman has not been retrograding in the past century, or in the past generation, and yet the steps which have been taken have all defied the agelong notions of the fundamental distinctions of sex.

In a late issue of a New York paper, was an account of the robbery of a clergyman, near his home in that city. The following is an inventory of valuables filched from his person :— 1 Gold Watch,.

Who that has tried to follow that divine precept, "As ye would that others should do unto you, do ye even so," but has suffered from the situation, when human passions in their reaction have accorded that individual the very opposite of her motives. We have been made the repository of little else than the troubles and indiscretions of other people, since laboring to uplift the race physically and morally, but have shrunk above all things from any interference with family difficulties.

This number ends the first years growth of the Journal of Christian Science . It is conceded that the measure of confidence imposed in our enterprise is evidence of its just worth: we are assured by our many friends, and by the constant receipt of testimonials of cures coming through the medium of our columns that the influence of the Journal's teachings shall not stop upon its anniversary, but that the seed of its sowing is blossoming in the hearts and lives of its patrons, bringing to light heretofore hidden blessings—making practical the Christian religion inasmuch as it adapts the metaphysics of Jesus Christ's teachings to the vital need of the sick and the sinner.

Is human life best solaced and sustained by amusement, a "witches stew" into which everybody must drop something after his own kind? Things good and delightful should sometimes have the floor without evil at their elbow, and because the puritan made Sunday a penance, the modern man need not dramatize it, make it a play; nor the land of the Pilgrims throw off her sacerdotal robes to don the fashions of flimsy France. Must things new and olden lose the bright hue of consistency? I venture to say it is neither well for a man's morals nor his religion to rise from his morning prayer with the law on his lip "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," and say to his children whose minds he moulds "Let's go to the Foreign Exposition," where people can throw off the shackles of Sunday, are free to smoke, spit tobacco juice, and see all things new and novel.

Success in life depends on persistent effort,—the improvement of moments more than any other one thing. A great amount of time is consumed in doing nothing, and indecision as to what we should do.