A Leading daily newspaper in one of the cities of the middle West contains an editorial review of a lecture on Christian Science which had just been delivered there, wherein it is said,—
"He [the lecturer] did not refer to the fact that death has existed throughout the entire earth in all ages as one of the conditions of evolution, that from it there could be no escape, and that most Christians regard it as the gateway to a higher life; but he talked as if death, physical death, was something that did not belong in the divine order and might be overcome. In this strain the speaker proceeded, . . . speaking with evident sincerity and earnestness."
I make this part of the editorial my text, not because it was written by a particular person and published in a particular newspaper, but because it reflects a yet generally prevalent sentiment or belief.
