Editorials

At a meeting of the Church of Christ (Scientist), of New York City, January 22d, the following resolutions were unanimously passed. Whereas, Our esteemed brother in Truth, Mr.

Said a visitor the other day, "I have a friend in the town of H. who is much out of health.

Brother F. D.

A letter over the signature of Ursula N. Gestefeld reaches us; a part of it is as follows: Chicago, June 9, 1888.

A Convention of the "Christian Alliance" was held at Berkley Temple, Boston, from January 15th to 17th inclusive. Rev.

All true and loyal Christian Scientists should insert their cards in our Journal, so that the public may know who they are. It was said of the disciples, "that they [the public] took note of them, that they had been with Jesus.

My Dear Madam : Ever since I became a Scientist I have had a desire to let you know that your book has converted a Roman Catholic from the error of his ways. I am a young man, thirty-five years old; and from the age of fifteen, until last winter, I was a firm believer in spinal trouble, neuralgia, and indigestion.

Without variety, said a great preacher once, how tame our gardens, with every flower in form and color the counterpart of another; and how monotonous the music of early morn, did every lark in the sky, linnet in the bush, rook and ringdove in the woods, all utter the same notes! But variety characterizes every department of nature. Each lamb of the flock has a bleat known to its mother; each rose on the bush has its own shape and shade of color; and there is not a lark that hangs caroling in the clouds but has a voice recognized by the brood above whose grassy nest she sings her morning hymn, calling the drowsy world to rise for worship and for work.

With this number of our Journal terminates the connection therewith of the gentleman who has had the general literary charge and arrangement of it since January, 1886,— three years, — with the exception of the few months following the summer of 1886. The new come, who assumes editorial control of the magazine, beginning with the February number, is a Christian.

[Selected from RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, D. D.