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.
Editor
with contributions from Mary L. Hooper, Jessie B. Cooper, Louise D. Radzinski, Priestly Hall, William L. Post, John H. Williams, Charles Varey, Mary Baker Eddy
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.
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.
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.