Libraries and schools are alike interested in protecting the children from the demoralization of comic supplements and the sensationalism of saffron newspapers, and two movements for "clean journalism" should interest both.
The sermon printed in your issue of the 28th ultimo deals with a subject which looms very large in human thought at the present moment, and which the clerical critic has discovered it is impossible to brush aside with an obiter dictum.
We commend the courage that characterized Senator Works' defense of Christian Science on the floor of the Senate in opposition to the Owen bill proposing the creation of a federal department of public health.
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Christ Jesus told his followers that it was to be their privilege to do even greater works than those which he had done, they must have been astounded; but it is evident that they were not discouraged, for shortly after the resurrection they not only essayed to heal the sick and reform the sinning, but they actually did raise the dead; thus showing that they accepted the Master's command literally, and that it was not the opinion of the disciples that the healing power of Truth should disappear from the earth with the disappearance, to human sense, of the Master.
Christian Science is sometimes misunderstood, and criticized accordingly, but when it is learned that its one and only mission is to teach mortals to open their eyes to a divine heritage, to behold the spiritual verities as their natural possession, and to make plain the way in which they may be appropriated, then this criticism will be turned to gratitude, and no longer will they school their minds to resist in every way this potent fact which is knocking at their doors.
