Editorials

A correspondent writes from Denver:— "Apropos of the 'Woman Question,' in the last Journal, would it not be as well to state that here in Colorado, we have taken an advance step by adopting it in the voting aspect, or bestowal of equal suffrage?" We gladly note the fact that by a goodly majority at the last election, that beautiful State of magnificent mountain and expansive plain, extended to woman the right of the elective franchise. In this connection it may not be improper to remark that Colorado contains within her ample borders many Christian Scientists.

We again call attention to a fact that our readers and contributors seem to have overlooked or be unaware of, and that is, that the matter for the Journal must be in our hands long before the Journal appears. In the February number one year ago, we said:— "It should be also borne in mind that the editorial department must work long enough in advance to allow the printer to do his work.

We should be glad if our readers would send us in more of the cases of spiritual growth. We are glad, of course, to have the healing demonstrations, but it seems as though only the cases of rapid restoration are thought worthy of reporting.

The following extracts from "Gibbons' Rome" are interesting as showing the works and healing of sickness and raising the dead during the early years of the Christian religion. When Christianity was understood and practised in its purity, surely the "days of miracles" had not passed.

On last Communion Day there were received into the Mother Church two hundred and ninety-seven new members. This makes a total membership of about eighteen hundred.

The fact that our Cause has an organ through which the utterances of the students and friends of Christian Science may from time to time be given, should be appreciated by all. But more important than this is the other fact that through its columns our beloved Leader may and does give forth her words of encouragement, guidance and admonition, in almost every issue.

It is usual at the commencement of each new year to make good resolutions, to "turn over a new leaf. " Permit us to make some suggestions along this line for the coming year.

We are on the eve of another calendar year. According to the human estimate of time, we are about to enter upon a new year, the year 1894.

Christendom will soon again formally celebrate the day on which Christ Jesus was born into the world; that day fraught with such mighty significance to mankind, and which ushered in a new era of divine Truth, in human consciousness. It did not in reality usher in a New Testament, or revelation of divine law.

PERHAPS one of the least understood of the Old Testament allegories is that contained in the Book of Jonah. It has long been the subject of much discussion and speculation.