Editorials

No Large Gathering in Boston This Year

In view of the fact that a general attendance of the members of The Mother Church at the Communion and Annual Meeting in Boston entails the expenditure of a large amount of money, and the further fact that it is important that the Building Fund of The Mother Church should be completed as early as possible, it has been decided to omit this year the usual large gathering in Boston, and to ask the members to contribute to the Building Fund the amount which they would have expended in such an event.

The Appeal of Nature

The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are.

E. Noyes Whitcomb

We are called upon to record, with tenderest love and sympathy, the sudden passing from our sight of our beloved brother, E.

Law gives Freedom

Students of Christian Science are often asked if they believe that law can be set aside, as, for instance, in the healing of those diseases which, in medical opinion, are invariably fatal, according to ordinary human experience.

Preparation

We are frequently asked to write something in the nature of advice regarding the selection of Readers in the branch churches, but we do not feel that it is within our province to do this, and if it were, we should be more than doubtful of our ability to decide questions which seem to tax the best thought of those to whom this problem is of immediate concern in connection with their individual work.

The May Class in the College

Boston.
London, April 10, 1905.

Apropos of Easter

In contrast with much religious thought of the past, which, through false veneration, has come under the bondage of superstition, mortal sense is now swinging to the opposite extreme of irreverent questioning, and to-day there are those who in all soberness deny the possibility of phenomena of our Saviour's life in which the faith of Christianity has always been centered.
The Psalmist's query, "What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?

Whose Diagnosis?

A clergyman who recently attacked Christian Science, asks, "Now, whose diagnosis declared these ailments to be such diseases?
Article XXVIII.

The "Common Sense" of It

It is most interesting to observe how rapidly the Christian world is coming to accept the teaching of Christian Science, that health is the normal and congruous state in which the spiritually aspiring may and should live; that its freedom and strength belong to the children of God, and are essential to the successful fulfilment of those Christian duties and obligations which the Master's words has imposed upon every believer.