We
have recently received quite a number of letters from Christian Scientists giving a statement of the work they are doing, some asking whether it is proper for them to continue their cards in the directory of practitioners published in The Christian Science Journal, others asking whether the writers should not make application for the insertion of their cards in this directory.
Again,
according to press reports, a physician of prominence, speaking before the National Prison Congress, has strongly urged the wisdom and necessity of relieving the communal burdens by painlessly ending the life of the "mentally irresponsible," the "hopelessly defective," that these unfortunates may find their only means of escape from unspeakable conditions.
There'
s nothing that wins like winsomeness, and many a man's determination and consequent career for good could be traced to some very simple but very genuine expression of the spirit of Christian brotherhood.
The second Annual Meeting of The General Association of Teachers is another milestone passed in the forward march of Christian Science, and the spirit which characterized it, no less than the number of those in attendance, gave proof of the good already accomplished by this agency.
One
of the addresses delivered upon the occasion of the dedication of a monument to the memory of the Jewish soldiers who died in the Civil War has occasioned no little comment, and this is not to be wondered at in view of its radical plea for the righteousness and necessity of war.
Editor
with contributions from Ida G. Stewart, Mary Baker Eddy
The
second annual meeting of The General Association of Teachers in the United States was held at Chicago, October 24 and 25, and was largely attended by members from practically every state in the Union.