We
are all more or less familiar with the opinion that the Briton is by nature cautious and conservative, that he does not readily accept new ideas—in short, that he insists upon proving things before endorsing them.
Under
the By-law of The Mother Church which has been in force for almost a year, there will be no large gathering of Christian Scientists in Boston this year.
The
great peace gathering in New York City has passed into history, though its voice will echo down the corridors of time until the din of war and of all strife is forever hushed.
When
Christian Scientists remember Jesus' saying, that if one had faith even as a grain of mustard seed, he could speak to the mountains and they would obey him, they are impressed with the propriety of modest statement as to their present attainments; but they have occasion and they do rejoice that Christian Science has called them to the fulness of both physical and spiritual freedom, that it places no limit upon the possibilities of their overcoming and efficiency.
The statement that pain should not be regarded as "an interference with normal living" is not only startling, but is contradicted by human experience, for pain unquestionably interferes with the conscious harmony and activity of the human mind and body, and unless it is overcome the limits of human endurance are soon reached.
In
giving our readers a twenty-four page paper this week, instead of the usual twenty pages, we have had in mind their desire for full information concerning the answers under oath filed by the defendants in the proceedings now pending in the Superior Court at Concord, as the demands upon the space of most newspapers do not permit full reports of such matters.
