Editorials

THE HELP OF HABIT

Though it blow ever so gently, a prevailing wind will give the sapling a lean which is retained even until the day when, a mighty tree, it thunders to its fall.

"THE BEST ATTAINABLE ADVICE."

Under the caption "A Foolish Prosecution" the Philadelphia Public Ledger says editorially,—
The able discourse of our "learned Judge," his flash of flight and insight, lays the axe "unto the root of the trees," and shatters whatever hinders the Science of being.
This decorative and instructive picture by H.

REVERENCE FOR AGE

The wise man said, "The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

"WHOSOEVER HATH NOT"

It was his last Sabbath in Jerusalem, a day crowded with most interesting experiences, and with the approach of the sunset hour his feet instinctively turned toward the slopes of the Mount of Olives.

"SIGNS FOLLOWING"

In many of the smaller cities and towns where Christian Science churches or societies have not yet been established, it has occurred to those who are banded together in a less informal way as Christian Scientists that a lecture is the one thing needed to establish their work on a more stable basis, but in this we believe they are mistaken.
The time has arrived when it is necessary to take steps toward the erection of a suitable publishing house for The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, and contributions for this purpose are requested from Christian Scientists throughout the world.

THE SOURCE OF STRENGTH

In the Bible the word strength and its derivatives are used between three and four hundred times, and in almost every instance the text points to God as the source thereof.
Christian Science teaches clearly that all human interests and conditions are to be embraced in that right consciousness, that active perception of divinely lawful rights and relations, which in its nature and effects is always vicarious.

THE SUIT FORMALLY DISMISSED

On Monday last the action which was commenced in Mrs.

THE TRUE RICHES

It has been well said that "it requires a philosophical mood to seek the undeterminate good," and the Christian teaching which has begotten a sense of spiritual realities as far-removed and intangible is in no small degree responsible for the fact that so-called material good, rather than spiritual, commands for the most part the world's attention.