Editorials

We have been advised of the circulation of a rumor that the total amount necessary for the completion of the new edifice of the Mother Church in Boston is "promised or pledged," and that the Field is therefore released from the necessity of sending further contributions to the Treasurer.

A Loving Gift

We are pleased to have permission to publish the following correspondence, which tells of an interesting episode of the recent dedicatory services in Concord.
THE petition of the disciples, "Lord, teach us to pray," is full of pathos.
We have recently received several papers which are clearly within the class of unauthorized literature referred to in the Sentinel of August 15 and September 19, 1903, and as these papers seem to be in constant circulation, we feel justified in republishing the editorial of the latter date.
A MINISTERIAL friend once said to the writer that in his judgment "it is criminal to ignore the deductions of medical Science!" This good brother is a representative of many who seem to be quite ignorant of the very rapid and very general awakening of physicians, as well as their longsuffering patients, to the fallacy, the utterly unscientific nature of the whole drug system.
In the intervals between the recent dedication services, there were many joyous meetings of old friends who had come from all over the land to share with our dear brethren in Concord the blessings of the occasion, and how gladly did they express their appreciation of the words of truth to which they had listened.
In its dignity, its chasteness, and the uniqueness of its form as well as of the end it subserves, a beautiful church is the highest symbol of the temple "not made with hands,"—a consciousness which is the place of the Divine indwelling.
The following editorial comment in the Troy.
The dedication of the Church in Concord, our Leader's splendid gift to the Christian Scientists of her home city, is an accomplished fact, and this building will stand as an enduring testimonial to the re-establishment of spiritual healing as a practical, demonstrable, and necessary feature of our Master's complete and saving gospel; but more substantial, more enduring even than this granite pile is the Dedicatory Address which Mrs.
On last Sunday all the branch churches of our denomination were observing the Communion, at which service new members are received after having promised fealty to the tenets of the Mother Church.
Most people firmly believe not a few propositions, the necessary outcome of which, were it seen, would be instantly rejected.
To-Day is the first anniversary of the laying of the corner-stone of the edifice presented to our Concord brethren by Mrs.