Editorials

Editorial

Environment

K.

When failure overtakes mortals, as it often does, they are apt to lay the blame for their misfortunes upon their environment, and they may fail to see that in so doing they are conceding the domination of matter, and practically admitting that mental capacity is the vassal of chance and change.
Editorial

A Notable Book

M. with contributions from James S. McCartney, Mary Baker Eddy

The following telegrams prefaced the delivery to Rev.
Editorial

A Better Way

A Better Way

The editor of a prominent daily voices a very general protest when he says that if things continue at their present pace, every man who hopes to retain a vestige of his strength and comfort will have to keep a scientific valet about him all the time to sterilize his toothpicks before he uses them, and perform a thousand other kindred services, in keeping with the petty requirements of modern medical dictation.
Editorial

The Equipment of Experience

W.

The web of human life is of so involved a pattern, and the countless threads which enter into its composition are thrown by so many hands, that much of it may remain a meaningless and unintelligible tangle for most of us until that hour of spiritual awakening which illumines not only the path of the future but the experiences of the past.
Editorial

"Testimonies of Healing"

M.

We are in receipt of a letter from a friend, a Christian Scientist, who calls attention to the unsatisfactory nature of the subject-matter and character of some of the testimonies given at our Wednesday evening meetings; "Testimonies" which do not conform in any manner to the rules of evidence, and which fail to carry conviction to the sincere seeker for truth who, for the first time, upon the solicitation of some friend, has attended one of these meetings.
Editorial

"Moral Obligations"

K.

It is very clear that one of the most important religious movements of modern times has resulted from the study of the Bible in connection with the passages from Science and Health which, together with Scriptural selections, constitute their Lesson-Sermons.
Editorial

The Dignity of Labor

K.

The ceaseless movement of the wheel of time brings our annual Labor Day with its appeal to all who think deeply of the welfare of their fellow-men.
Editorial

Confirmed by Culture

W.

Students of English history are not surprised to learn that the chief political leader of the British empire is President of the Association for the Advancement of Science, and so intelligent in this field of thought as to deliver, at the late meeting of the Association, in Cambridge, an address which "exhibited a splendid grasp of an exceedingly difficult as well as well as novel scientific subject.
Editorial

Fruits Demanded

M.

The general extension and rapid growth of the Christian Science movement has been such that we are always surprised when attention is called to some community wherein this truth has been known five, ten, or even fifteen years, but nevertheless the work is not found firmly established, and no perceptible gain is being made.
Editorial

The Value of Words

K.

We may well question ourselves as to the importance and value of our daily and hourly utterances.
Editorial

"Not by Might nor by Power"

W.

The subtlest temptations often seem reserved for those who entertain the noblest ideals and who strive the most faithfully and disinterestedly for their attainment.
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A Sign of the Times

M.

We have been favored with a newspaper clipping which tells of a movement in England to form an association "within the Established Church to revive the teaching and practice of the early centuries concerning Divine healing.