Editorials

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.

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.

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.

We regret to be obliged to say, that all are not metaphysicians, or Christian Scientists, who call themselves so. Charlatanism, fraud and malice are getting into the ranks of the good and pure, sending forth a more deadly poison than the Upas tree, in the Eastern Archipelago.

Nature, like a thrifty housewife, is setting the earth in order, and blame her not, that taking up her gray carpets and putting down her green ones, 'tis a little dusty. The voices of Spring come to us sad or joyful, even as the heart may be; they restore in sweet rhythm unforgotten harmonies, or waken mute memories too tender to touch.

At the residence of Mr. R———, of Arlington, a happy concourse of friends had gathered to celebrate the eighty-second birthday of his mother.

What has an individual gained by losing his own self respect? Or what has he lost when retaining his own, he loses the homage of fools, or the pretentious praise of hypocrites, false to themselves as to others? "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any one. " When Aristotle was asked what a person could gain by uttering falsehoods, he replied: Not to be credited when he shall tell the truth.