We
have before us a letter asking whether the holding of the afternoon or evening services referred to in the "Explanatory Note" in The Christian Science Quarterly, is optional with the churches, also whether these services are to be considered simply in the nature of overflow meetings.
As shown in all human experience, there is an element of consciousness which, in time of stress, turns away from the things of sense to the spiritual and eternal; intermittently it may be, yet from necessity it refuses to be stilled until satisfied, if only for the hour.
Of
the several plans formulated by our Leader for the correct presentation of Christian Science to the public, one of the most efficient in operation is the giving of lectures by the members of an official board.
Editor
with contributions from A. E. Pierpont, Mary Baker Eddy
The following correspondence between our Leader and the church at Pittsburg upon the occasion of the dedication of the new church edifice in that city, will be read with interest.
The
following reference to a disaster in which more than fifty persons lost their lives occurs in a newspaper report of a sermon recently preached in Boston : —