Editorials

SELF-PRESERVATION

The greater part of the organic functions of the body and of the productive forces of nature, as well as the bulk of all human planning and activity, point to race perpetuation as their end.

"HOW ONE MAN FOUND RELIEF."

That all the testimonials to the efficacy of Christian Science are not given in our Wednesday evening meetings and in our own periodicals is proved by the following letter, which we copy from the Boston American of June 24.
Article XXXIII.

A QUESTION OF CHOICE

Error ofttimes makes itself impressive to human sense, not only by its pains and terrors, but by its asserted greatness, continuity, and conformity to law, and its arguments are of such significance to some that, though they cannot believe evil is good, or that God actually has need of it, they nevertheless feel compelled to say that it is too big and too significant to the life that now is to be counted out as nothingness.
About eleven years ago a new order was introduced in the Christian Science Church, namely, the substitution of the now well-known Lesson-Sermons for sermons prepared and delivered by preachers.

HISTORY

In these days when so much is being written about our Leader and Christian Science, it is well for us to remember that Mrs.

A SIGNIFICANT PROTEST

It is one of the stock claims of those who have tried to secure repressive legislation respecting the practice of Christian Science, that they are impelled by a sincere interest in the welfare of the people, that their motive is unselfish, and that they are seeking to right a wrong which, strange to say, the people themselves have not voiced nor even discovered.

A GRATEFUL TRIBUTE

On another page of the Sentinel we give in part an article recently published in The Onlooker, a widely read English magazine.

"A JOYOUS STATE OF MIND"

In its report of the annual meeting of The Mother Church held Tuesday, June 11, The Boston Globe said,—

RACIAL UNITY

Many good people have tried to explain the injustice of so-called natural law, the cruel wrongs inflicted upon the innocent and well-deserving, by declaring that they are a necessary incident of racial unity.

COMMUNION

In all Christian churches the sacrament has been regarded as that which had taken the place of the passover,—a feast which was first partaken of when the Israelites were yet in bondage, but on the eve of their deliverance.

THE FRAGRANT LIFE

After all that may be said in praise of other blossoms, to the grown-up country lad there are none quite so satisfying and so dear as the lilac, and for the reason that in addition to its gifts of fragrance and beauty it brings a picture of mother and the old home which means far more to him than he has ever tried to express; above all others, perhaps, it is the flower that for him awakens