Editorials

Our Manager had recently occasion to visit the New England Conservatory of Music, and reports of its great prosperity and magnificent proportions, with 2600 students. We trust it will long flourish, and enjoy the services of its distinguished Principal, Dr.

Mrs. Eddy has finally yielded to the wishes of her friends, to have her vignette placed in the front of her great book on Science and Health.

A contemporary editor repudiates Christian Science on the ground that "Christian is sectarian and local. " But this same editor seems to make capital out of his quondam standing as a Christian minister in the Methodist Church, which now grants his meetings a place within its walls.

The same journal endorses an article which stigmatizes as a "craze" our doctrine that evil is nothing (nothing but a false belief); and said editor, in same issue, affirms, that as God is omnipresent, that excludes the possibility of evil.

We were asked this question recently, on the assumption that they had ceased in the Church, and are now renewed. That is erroneous.

Mrs. Eddy is a prophetess; and she unfolds, like a seer, her mental visions.

Oh ye Christian Scientists! how incomparably great are the divine benefactions which have alighted on you. How happy you are.

It is important to note that there is a great difference between Christianity and Christian Science. We have had Christianity from the beginning.

Boston has been accused of being the hot-bed of isms, and as liable to be carried away by all sorts of false and superficial pretensions. Many facts give a plausible support to these charges, facts which we have no disposition needlessly to repeat.

A Chicago journal on Mental Science healing quotes a speech of a Boston speaker on "Christian Science," omitting all the passages which mention Christian Science; and this speech had been fairly reported in a Spiritualist magazine, whence the garbled excerpts are taken.