Editorials

Spiritual Energy Needed

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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.
ARTICLE XXVII.

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.
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.

Our Easter

On that first Easter Day, Truth gave adequate and eternal answer to every falsity of belief, every assertion of error.

The Lectures

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.

Dedication at Pittsburg

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.

Religious Freedom

What depths of meaning lie in the words, "Freedom to worship God," and well may we ask whether this freedom has ever been realized on earth.
Nothing is more depleting to one's energy, more dampening to enthusiasm, or more discouraging to hope, than an abiding sense of spiritual inadequacy.

God Does not Create Evil

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 : —

An Impossible Blend

There is nothing so definite and incisive as truth.