Editorials

Intelligent Obedience

As new rules are given by our Leader, from time to time, it is important that we clearly comprehend their intent.
The following interesting item is clipped from the Cleveland Leader of March 14:—

The Rest that Remaineth

Many a weary and discouraged soul has been attracted to Christian Science by hearing the testimony of those who witness that it has brought them not only surcease of pain, but rest of mind and content of heart, and through misapprehension there are those who have been led to think that to become a student of Christian Science is immediately to find that exemption from the struggle for subsistence and success which enters so largely into the world's sense of happiness.

Our Responsibilities

The inaugural address of President Roosevelt has been read with interest in all parts of the world, an interest which attaches not so much to the immediate occasion as to the fact that the ideals of a great and free nation are necessarily expressed at such a time.

The Gospel of Healing

Most of us can remember the time, not so very long ago, when the fortunate possessor of a strong and healthy body was looked upon as a person in whom the spiritual nature was entirely lacking or, at the most, only superficially developed, and the clergyman who happened to be blessed with an abundance of health and bodily vigor was secretly suspected of being no better than Friar Tuck.

Rumor

What an indefinite, fleeting, intangible thing is a rumor; how fast it travels, and how it grows and assumes shape and the forms of truth as it progresses.

An Interesting Symposium

The Boston Herald of Sunday, March 5, contained a very interesting symposium based upon President Roosevelt's message on divorce, recently sent to the Senate and House of Representatives.

Mrs. Eddy in Good Health

The following excerpts are from an article written by a reporter for The New York Herald and published in last Sunday's issue of that paper.

A Rebuke of Prejudice

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One of the distinguishing characteristics of our day is its recognition of the limitless possibilities of human achievement.

The Christian Ministry

Much has been said within the past few years about the marked decrease in the number of students in attendance at the theological schools, and many reasons have been assigned for the evidence reluctance on the part of young men to enter upon the Christian ministry as their life-work.

Vital and Joyous Religion

Though there may be a very general disagreement as to the best means of promoting the moral and intellectual advancement of the race, there is no question as to its desirability.