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
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.
So long as war continues no one can claim that the moral and intellectual faculties of the race are greatly in the ascendancey, or that the animal does not dominate mortal man.
It
is not unusual for those coming to Christian Science to make very large demands upon it in the way of insistence that their every problem, physical and metaphysical, shall be promptly solved.
In recent years quite a number of educational institutions have been established which have been referred to or advertised as "Christian Science schools," and because of this designation the impression has gone out that they are in some manner a part of our denominational institutions.
With
the return of this country's natal day we are led to think of the nations which have come upon the world's stage with what seemed a promise of perpetual greatness, and are reminded of the lines,—