Editorial September 21, 1907 Issue

PROFITING BY EXPERIENCE

Archibald McLellan

The old saying that "experience is the best teacher" has been brought home to many of us through our failure to heed the lessons we should have drawn from the experience of others, and this is true of organizations as surely as it is of individuals. Christian Scientists are in a position to profit by the experience of other and older church workers, and it would be a great misfortune should they fail to do this.

We are impelled to this line of thought by an editorial in Congregational Work, an organ of the Congregational church published in Boston. Referring to the title of the article "Too Many Churches," the editor writes:—

This is the title of an article in a paper in a large and flourishing city, the name of which we will give, not wishing to hold up that city as in conspicuously desperate state. With commendable frankness the editor lays down the proposition that the establishment of new edifices has not always been an indication of a healthy spiritual growth.

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