Editorials

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.

The True Working Basis

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,—
In another column of this issue we give a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Building Fund as reported by the Treasurer at the Annual Meeting of the Mother Church.

Another Expression of Gratitude

The following letters disclose another happy incident in connection with the building of the Concord church, and they give further evidence of the loving regard for our Leader, and appreciation of her work, which animate the Field.

Man in Relation to God

A minister of national reputation has recently said.
"Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
The Century Dictionary defines a leader as one who is first, or most prominent in any relation; one who takes precedence by virtue of superior qualification, and in this sense the title, Leader, which has been bestowed upon Mrs.

The Communion

"Each successive stage of experience unfolds new views of divine goodness and love".
The world's noblest leadership has ever effected a chief good in that ministry to which Emerson refers when he says, "That is always best which gives me to myself.
There are times when we wish the Sentinel might be greatly enlarged, and this is one of those times.