Every
manifestation of prejudice is obtrusive and out of place, but its utter unfitness is never quite so apparent as when it displays itself in the columns of a religious journal.
During
the six years that the Publication Committee has been at work, the results accruing from its labors have amply justified the wisdom of our Leader in establishing it as an agency for the correction of misstatements regarding Christian Science and its followers, but this Committee still has a great deal of work before it, and it needs the earnest and loyal support of every member of our Church in order that it may accomplish the good it should do.
A NOTICEABLE
change has come over the religious press in general in its attitude toward Christian Science, and this change may briefly be described as a transition from unqualified condemnation to timid and partial commendation, from an attitude which regarded Christian Science as beyond the limit of Christian toleration to one which sees in it an available something, an influence for good, which the churches have neglected to their own detriment.
At
a time when the question of national existence, with all it implies is a prominent theme throughout this country, Christian Scientists may well ask themselves to what extent they as individuals are contributing to the general weal.
The
authoritative pronouncements of many speakers at the late medical convention in Boston certainly furnish food for thought, and in many respects they give promise of better things.
WE
are much pleased to give the place of honor in this issue to our Leader's timely, brave, and significant article, "Personal Contagion," which appears above, because we look upon it as one of the most important statements of inspired truth that she has given to the world since the publication of the Christian Science text-book.
It
is not strange that the coming together of such large numbers of Christian Scientists at their annual Communion and the dedication of the Extension of The Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, should have aroused much interest and called forth much comment.
The
essential of every manifestation of true loyalty is adherence to Principle, and every lesser sense of it invariably leads to selfishness and illiberality.
