Editorials

It seems that the statement sent out through the associated press dispatches, and, of course, published in all the leading dailies in the country, to the effect that a number of indictments had been preferred against Christian Scientists by the grand jury at Utica, N. Y.

The extract from the Bridgeport Conn. Union , appearing in our last number scarcely states the case of the Christian Scientists correctly.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. In our last issue we endeavored to bring out somewhat the meaning of this first, great commandment.

The following words of Sojourner Truth, the white-souled colored woman who lived to be over one hundred years old, which were recently published in the Chicago Inter Ocean, may be read with profit by all:— "God or good is from everlasting to everlasting. To say that we had a beginning is to limit eternity.

The Mosaic Decalogue has lost none of its significance by lapse of time. It means as much to-day as it ever meant.

We have to announce in this issue of the Journal the passing on of the Rev. David Augustus Easton, pastor of the Mother Church.

The legislatures of many of the states are now in session, and we hear on all sides of attempts at legislation whose ostensible purpose is to protect the people against the aggressions of charlatanism, fraud and imposition. In so far as this is the purpose of legislation, there can be no objection to it.

"Mary to the Saviour's tomb Hastened at the early dawn; Spice she brought, and sweet perfume, But the Lord she loved was gone. " At the rising of the sun came Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, and brought sweet spices that they might anoint the body of Jesus; and they queried among themselves Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? but when they looked, behold, the stone was rolled away! From the angelic messengers they learned that he whom they sought was not there "He is risen.

The History of the World's Parliament of Religions, by the Rev. John Henry Barrows, D.

" There cannot be a falsehood which does not originate and grow out of Truth, for falsehood is not that which hath no existence, but is the wrong statement or conception of that which doth exist. "— Arius, the Lybian.