Editorials

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.

Spiritual Energy Needed

St.

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.

Afternoon and Evening Services

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.

Church Dedication in St. Louis

The following loving words of greeting, counsel, and encouragement were sent by our Leader to First Church of Christ, Scientist, St.
ARTICLE XXVII.