Editorials

It was more than ten years ago that the National Legislature caused to be placed upon the pages of the statute books a law that eight hours should constitute a legal day's labor in the various departments of the government. With but one exception it were as well that the law had never been made, so far as benefiting the laboring men for whom it was intended is concerned, for the simple reason that the law has never been enforced.

Those desiring a course of instruction at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College Boston, will be given $100 discount on tuition if they reside a hundred or more miles from Boston. I am informed that teachers of Metaphysical methods give people to suppose that if they become their pupils first, I will teach them at a discount.

The annoyance of bona fide graduates of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, at being confounded with counterfeit practitioners, claiming to be alumni of their alma mater, but practising a system of healing uncountenanced there, will soon be obviated by the new wise provision of the president of the College, who has instituted it for the protection of the public from imposition, and the defence of faithful students. E.

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.

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.

People are feeling very deeply for Gen. Grant.

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.