Editorials

The Christmas chimes tell a wonderful story to those who are conscious of their deeper meaning.

The Bethlehem Joy

It was the hour when history's hope had come to its blossoming, an hour whose significance to the Hebrew people, those born into the unpoetic and unracial sense of a cosmopolitan age may neither appreciate nor In the long years, the Messianic expectancy had been sung and storied into their deepest and noblest thought.
"The keynote for the world's progress for 1905 will be 'Truth.

The December Class

The following appreciative telegram was received by our Leader from the December, 1904, Primary class of the Board of Education:—
A Clever critic of western civilization, who writes under the caption, "Letters from a Chinese Official," hews close to the line when he says that instead of thinking of the quality of the life lived, we are ever thinking of the means of living.
The reference by our revered Leader to the study of the Manual which appeared in the Sentinel of November 12, deserves more than a passing notice.
When Jesus was asked whether he was the Christ, "he that should come," he answered, "Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
The world cannot overestimate its debt to those who, in any line of research, endure "unto the end.
In speaking of the larger possibilities for good which have come to the church in modern times, a religious leader has recently said,—
Christian Scientists have been criticised from many different standpoints and for many alleged sins of commission and omission, but one of the most novel indictments yet brought against our people is that of a Congregational clergyman in an article contributed to his denominational paper.

The Teachers' Association in London

The following cablegram, conveying an expression of the love of the English students, was recently received by our Leader.
In Paul's beautiful discourse on charity, or "love" as it is better rendered, he says, "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child;.