Editorials

Holiday Gifts

Beloved Students:—The holidays are coming and I trow you are awaiting on behalf of your Leader the loving liberty of their license.
The early history of the Hebrews reveals the fact that they were originally a pastoral people, and lived close to nature.

Remember the Sabbath Day

We recently received a request to say something in the Sentinel about the proper observance of the Sabbath, but the necessity for advice to Christian Scientists on this subject did not at once appeal to us.
Spiritual understanding is changeless.

Letters to our Leader

Columbus, Ohio, August 11, 1904.
The echoes of the recent Peace Congress can never cease, for we may be sure that whatever of truth was embodied in its deliberations and utterances, — that will live on and touch to new and higher issues the silent chords of humanitarian sentiment and unselfish aspiration.
Who can ever forget the joys of a perfect autumnal day! To stand under oaks and maples that revel in hues for which even a Veronese, a Dolci, and a Murillo have vainly striven, and, looking up and beyond, to drink in the delicious flood of tinted light that is sifted out of cerulean depths, — this is to enter the treasure-house of the sun.
In our issue of October 8 we quoted at length from the decision of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire in the case of Spead v.
The subject of our experience meetings is of so much interest to the Field that a few additional thoughts respecting them cannot be amiss.
If we base our judgment upon the history of the church militant, we can but conclude that one of the last things which the followers of Christ Jesus are willing to learn is that the weapons of their warfare are not carnal.
The following article is copied from the Boston Transcript :—
[We are very glad to give a prominent place to the following letter.