Editorials

The dissolution of the visible organization of the Church is the sequence and complement of that of the College Corporation and Association. The College disappeared, "that the spirit of Christ might have freer course among its students and all who come into the understanding of Divine Science"; the bonds of organization of the Church were thrown away, so that its members might assemble themselves together and "provoke one another to good works" in the bond only of Love.

A good new year's gift will be a check to the Christian Science Publishing Society to pay for sending copies of the Journal, to those who, from various painful circumstances in belief, are unable to make or to keep up subscriptions. In remote, and even in rich, populous districts, are those to whom the Journal is daily bread of Life, from whom come letters of deep regret, and loving appreciation, saying that they are obliged to give up the visitor that is to them the only visible sign of the universal brotherhood in Science.

A correspondent writes : An error, peculiar to some advanced Scientists, is to volunteer promiscuously, statements concerning difficulties that they have experienced and that are past and gone. If these statements were in the line of demonstrations they would be helpful.

" Footsteps of progress and spiritualization greet us on every hand. ".

Correspondents of the Journal in the departments of "Healing and Reports of Cases," "Questions and Answers "etc. , will notice that their full names are never printed.

It is with mingled sorrow and indignation that those who understand through Christian Science the laws of mental operation, have followed the "working up" in mind of the influenza scare, to its present gigantic proportions. First the press thundered in all ears the decree of materia medica as to its coming hither; this the doctors confirmed and explained, with learned reasons,—gave the symptoms, laws of development, and probabilities of fatal termination.

The Christian Science Bible Lessons more than justify, in actual use, the expression made in the January Journal. Some defects in typographical arrangement will be found corrected in the present monthly issue.

The country has been flooded for two or three years past with cheap issues of what is called "Christian Science Literature. " The greater part of this is of little value, and much of it is misleading or pernicious.

The Journal will in its future issues be edited in its several departments by different individuals. There are several reasons for this.

Many inquiries are made as to the precise signification of these letters that follow the names of many Scientists. They indicate, respectively, the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Christian Science, conferred by the Faculty of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College.