Editorials

We have received a copy of a new publication entitled The Examiner, published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We have no desire to unduly criticise this or any other publication purporting to be in line with Christian Science; but when we see what seems to us to be misleading statements in the name of Christian Science we feel it a duty to point them out.

Another glorious Fourth has come and gone; and while it is not our purpose to deliver ourselves of a post-Fourth of July oration, we feel called upon, after much sober second-thought and deliberation, to make a few ex post facto remarks which seem to us to be "appropriate to the occasion. " We firmly believe in the proper observance of the natal day of our great and glorious Republic.

If there is no error in Truth, there can logically be no Truth in error. The two cannot combine.

The Boston Herald of Wednesday, June 8, 1898, contained the following editorial paragraph:— Mrs. Eddy, Christian Scientist, says that Pantheism is derived from Pan, a mythological god.

Of all the incidents, thus far, of the present war, the almost incredible bravery of Lieutenant Hobson and his seven companions in their heroic scuttling of the Merrimac in the narrow entrance to Santiago Harbor, is without a parallel. Indeed, in point of sheer bravery and heroism, it is justly entitled to, and doubtless will, take its place among the greatest of military deeds of valor.

In the April, 1898, Journal, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy , speaking of the financial problem as she experienced it, says:— "After four years from my discovery of Christian Science, while taking no remuneration for my labors, and healing all manner of diseases, I was confronted with the fact of no monetary means left wherewith to hire a hall in which to speak, or to establish a Christian Science Home for indigent students (which I yearned to do), or even to meet my own current expenses, and halted from necessity.

It has ever been a peculiarity of human nature to relegate prophecy and prophets to the past. It is as much a truism that a prophet is not without honor save in his own age and generation, as that he is not without honor save in his own country.

Do Christian Scientists believe in war? Christian Scientists look to the Bible for their authority in all affairs, divine and human. If the Bible teaches that war is a divine institution, Christian Scientists should feel themselves obliged to regard it as such.

In The Washington News Letter, published in Washington D. C.

A short time since we sent out to those interested a letter of which the following is a copy. For the information it contains we publish it in this number.