Editorials

THE CONCEPT OF FAITH

Truth's ministry always begins at the point of human need; it is considerate of conditions, waits patiently for the right time and opportunity, and knows how to be no less wise than uncompromising.

THE MENTAL STATE

IT is very interesting to inquire into the reasons for the rapid and steady progress made by some pupils in their school days, as compared with that of others, and this inquiry may be pursued in the wider school of human experience.

DIANA OF THE EPHESIANS."

THE following editorial, which we copy from the St.

TIMELY LETTERS

[We are glad to give prominence to the following timely and appreciative letters recently received by Mrs.

RIGHT LIVING

FEW would deny that there is a wide difference between right and wrong living, but there are many opinions as to what constitutes this difference.

FAITH'S SURE FOUNDATION

ONE cannot acquaint himself with the general drift of religious thought to-day without perceiving that it is undergoing a change which is destined to effect a complete overthrow of the sovereignty of belief.

HEAL THE SICK

IT has been the practice in the churches of the older denominations to plan and provide special services or entertainments for different classes of the community, and in this way it has been supposed that the old people and the young, the men and the women, would be severally brought into the church; but we doubt whether in any instance more has been accomplished than would have had there been no division into classes.

MIND NOT IN MATTER

FOR many years there has been a wide difference of opinion in the medical profession, as to the value to mankind of experiments on the lower animals, and many protests against these experiments have been made by thoughtful people on humanitarian grounds.

THE FORCE OF DENIAL

AMONG those who frankly recognize the dignity and value of the Christian Science movement, and the sanity and integrity of its representatives, one often meets with a reserve criticism of its teachings, to the effect that while strong and convincing in its affirmations it is weak in its denials,—that the assertion of the unreality of material phenomena, sin, sickness and death, and of the unreliability of the testimony of the physical senses, is the one vulnerable feaure of its teaching.

A TYPICAL EXPERIENCE

ON reading Mrs.

THE PUBLIC WANTS THE TRUTH

Pleasant View, Concord, N.

"THE TRUE ORIGIN"

ONE of the questions often asked by those who are looking into Christian Science is this, How did evil originate?