Editorials

In the 1907 second revised edition of our text-book, Science and Health, some changes have been made in the line numbers since the Quarterly for January, February, March was prepared.

GENUINE GOOD CHEER

It is no less pleasant to give than to receive the cheery greeting, "A Happy New Year!" The habit contributes to that commerce of kindness in which all may have part, and from which all may receive an appreciable profit over and above the satisfaction of smiling upon others.

"THE SCIENCE OF BEING"

A student of Christian Science remarked recently that too many beginners overlook the important fact that Christian Science is primarily and essentially the Science of Being, and strive to make it instead the Science of getting.

MRS. EDDY AND CHARITY

The announcement made in last week's issue of the Sentinel that Mrs.

"THE HIGH GOAL."

It is very questionable whether the votaries of pleasure or those who devote themselves to the task of acquiring material possessions have in reality any well-defined goal toward which they press.

THE PRESENT PAST

Religious history has a value as a repository of the archives of human experience.

TO FOUND AN INSTITUTION

Pleasant View, Concord, N.

THE HIGHER CRITICISM

An earnest student writes to me: "Would it be asking too much of you to explain more fully why you call Christian Science the higher criticism?

THE "HAND IN HAND" IDEA

In expressing his conviction that drug medication and spiritual healing should go "hand in hand," a prominent minister has recently fathered a suggestion which may commend itself to some, and especially to those who from the asserted "common sense" point of view would say.

LAW

During the last forty years thinkers have been coming to see and to admit that a regular sequence of events is not necessarily a proof of law at work, and in this respect they approach the teaching of Christian Science, that law in the true sense is that only which expresses an all wise and all loving God.

JOSEPH ARMSTRONG, C.S.D.

It is with profound sympathy that we record the passing away of our beloved associate and brother, Joseph Armstrong, C.

OUR LEADER'S REQUEST

[The following request from our Leader, which appeared in our issue of Nov.