Editorial December 30, 1905 Issue

"Signs of the times."

Archibald McLellan

The world is waking up to the fact that the healing of the sick is a necessary part of our Master's gospel, and that this sign of the times is not escaping the attention of the newspapers will be seen by the following quotation from an influential paper of the Middle West. The Jackson (Mich.) Patriot says,—

"There is an increasing public discussion in the press along comparatively new lines of thought. An encouraging sign of spiritual advancement, says a writer in the Cincinnati Enquirer, is the tendency of some of the clergy toward the healing Christianity practised by Christ. Discarding old theological theories, many are turning wholly to the simple teaching of the Master, which in the early centuries gave substantial comfort to the good Christian and the sick as well as to the sinner.

"Even the conservative Bishop of London 'urges his clergy to pay more attention to the recovery of the sick than to preparing their souls for the next world,' but he inconsistently adds, 'to hold the extreme beliefs of the Christian Scientists is to magnify a great truth into a gigantic heresy.'

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