Editorials

In Answer to Many Queries

We are often asked to "say something in the Sentinel" calculated to correct some practice or custom which the person who makes the request believes to be a growing evil destined to work great injury to our Cause, but in a majority of instances we have found that the evil complained of is one which can be readily corrected by obedience to the letter and the spirit of the Church Manual, and it therefore seems inexpedient to devote any of our limited space to articles which we are requested to write upon these various subjects.

Corner-stone Laid in London

The following correspondence between our Leader and First Church of Christ, Scientist, London, upon the occasion of the laying of the corner-stone of the new edifice in that city, will be read with interest.
Number enrolled June, 1904, 234; number entered since 53; total 287.
Mrs.

The Still, Small Voice

Men have been accustomed to think that the most convincing things in the world are always phenomenal; that a colossal sense testimony is the one unanswerable statement of any proposition.

The Outlook

With the close of the year thoughtful people scan the horizon on which the light is dawning, though a backward glance may yet prompt the familiar query, "What of the night?

The Reign of Universal Peace

The Christmas issue of The Boston Globe contained a very interesting symposium of answers to the question, "Have the events of 1904 been such as to add encouragement to the hope that the world is approaching the reign of universal peace and to give promise for a growth of the spirit of the Prince of Peace in the New Year?

A Welcome Change

The Change which is gradually taking place in the world's estimate of Christian Science is well illustrated in a sermon recently delivered by Rev.
The Christmas chimes tell a wonderful story to those who are conscious of their deeper meaning.

The Bethlehem Joy

It was the hour when history's hope had come to its blossoming, an hour whose significance to the Hebrew people, those born into the unpoetic and unracial sense of a cosmopolitan age may neither appreciate nor In the long years, the Messianic expectancy had been sung and storied into their deepest and noblest thought.
"The keynote for the world's progress for 1905 will be 'Truth.

The December Class

The following appreciative telegram was received by our Leader from the December, 1904, Primary class of the Board of Education:—