Editorials

On behalf of the treasurer of the Mother Church, we take occasion to remind the members of the following resolution passed by the Church Committee on July 25, 1893. "That every member of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.

The Book of Views by Messrs. Gilman & Carlton, in and around the residence of the Rev.

There are perhaps no texts or verses of the Bible which furnish more ground for the conception of eternal punishment, or upon which this doctrine is more especially based, than the thirty-second and thirty-third verses of the 12th chapter of Matthew: "Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

Never since the days of the Great Rebellion has the country been in such a turmoil as we now witness. Capital and labor is engaged in what is believed by at least one of the combatants to be a death struggle.

We have recently heard of a high ecclesiastic who severely denounced the practice of charging for healing or relieving sickness through metaphysical means. This also was made the turning point of the decision of the supreme court of Nebraska as shown in our last issue.

In the May number, 1893, we reported at length the trial of the case of The People of the State of Nebraska vs. Ezra M.

Human wisdom and material philosophy have had considerable difficulty in defining and locating the human "soul. " Many of the ancient philosophers believed, as do many of our modern ones, that the soul perished with the body; others that it lasted for a time and then became nothing.

An active Christian Scientist and valued correspondent thus writes:— "I have a suggestion, which, if meeting your approval I hope you will find space for in the Journal It is this With the April number began a new year. There are upwards of ninety church organizations or societies whose cards appear in the Journal There appear also the notices of about one hundred and fourteen unorganized societies.

From all over the field come most encouraging reports. Our Cause is attracting more and more the attention of earnest thinking people.

The eighty-first edition of "Science and Health, With Key to the Scriptures," comes to us in a much-revised and enlarged form. The pen of its author, the Rev.