Editorials

"AND FORBID THEM NOT."

She was just a little girl, lying on a cot by one of the windows of a great hospital, and over the wan cheeks and big brown eyes there flitted the lights and shadows of joy and sadness, patience and pain, laughter and longing,—the signs of ever-buoyant hope as well as of long-time trial.

GRATITUDE

It is not always seen that the great changes which are taking place in the material world but indicate the changes which have come about in the thought world,—that just as hitherto unknown elements are being revealed by chemistry, so we are beginning in Christian Science to recognize mental and spiritual qualities which were formerly unknown, or at least held to be of but slight importance.

"THE JOY OF THE LORD."

We have before us a copy of Zion's Herald containing a symposium contributed by "representative ministers in our midst," in response to the editor's inquiry, "Is there anything in Christian Science, so called, that Christian ministers should recognize and utilize?
The photographs of branch churches which arrived within the time specified in the recent request of The Christian Science Publishing Society, made through the Sentinel, will be displayed in connection with the "International Book and Paper Exposition" in Paris, from July to November of this year.

THE CRY OF THE HUMAN

"What shall I do?

CHILDREN

Our Leader's definition of "children," as given in the glossary of our text-book, is very remarkable and lifts thought far above the ordinary human concept.
[The interview granted by Mrs.

MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS

A number of newspapers have published reports of medical experiments recently made by Professor Gates at Washington.
It was a warm day, and the mother turkey had piloted her trailing brood such a long way in search of stray wheat-heads and the delectable grasshoppers that the younglings were piping plaintively enough when she finally martialed them in the back door-yard for the last roll-call before taps.

THE SACRED RECORD

Many students of the Bible are greatly perplexed at the seeming contradictions in its statements respecting God, man, and the universe, while the most thoughtful readily admit the impossibility of reconciling these statements with the dogmas of physical science.
To understand God is the work of eternity.
We copy the following from an editorial in the Butte, Mont.