Editorials

We are pleased to add the following churches to the list of those sending reports to the Annual Meeting. They were inadvertently omitted from our previous statement.

The Christian Scientist who is daily striving to free himself from the undue influence of personality prays with the Psalmist: "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. " In times past it was deemed clever to perceive and criticise aptly the frailties and peculiarities of men.

The following is taken from an editorial in the Chicago Inter-Ocean, called out by Joseph Dana Miller's interesting article, "The Growth of Christian Science," in the July issue of The Era:— "It is a notable fact that the adherents of Christian Science are, as a rule, from the well-to-do part of the community. Most members of its churches have had large advantages of education and have been fortunate in their worldly affairs.

In the domain of humanity, historic advance is variously chronicled, in the growth of empires, the succession of dynasties, the completion of conquests, the extension of trades, and the achievements of science and art; but in the kingdom of God among men, progress is marked solely by the unfoldment of Truth. To this all Christian ambition is directed, all right desire linked, all unselfish effort consecrated.

UNDER the above title The Seminary Magazine , a religious monthly, issued during the session of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, at Louisville, Ky. , publishes in its March, 1902, number an able and truthful article from the pen of Prof.

The charge given to the candidate for consecration to the office of bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church contains. among other, the following admonitions: "Be to the flock of Christ a shepherd, not a wolf; feed them, devour them not.

We hereby republish the editorial, as above entitled, which appeared in the June, 1897, Journal, giving our editorial space in this issue to it, as somewhat changed. "It was a fair and beautiful city, set in a valley of enchanting loveliness.

Under the above heading we published in the Sentinel of March 6, 1902, an article by Mr. J.

Those who are so earnestly maintaining that modern medical and surgical skill is eclipsing the healing works of Jesus, and that these greater works are in fulfilment of his teaching, should look more carefully into that teaching. They should compare his teaching with his works.

We are again in the midst of Eastertide. The Christian world is celebrating, in its various ways, the rising of Jesus from the sepulchre.